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API – Application Programming Interface
An API is an interface that defines how, for example, software applications can communicate with each other. APIs allow different software systems to interact and share data.
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JSON
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JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) is an open standard file format, and data interchange format, that uses human-readable text.
It is commonly used for transmitting data in web applications (e.g., sending some data from the server to the client, so it can be displayed on a web page, or vice versa).
In practice
An example of a JSON-formatted document:
{ "name" : "Datastory", "type" : "Organization", "founded" : 2017 }
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CSV or Comma-separated values, is a standard format for spreadsheet data. Data values are separated by commas and each row represents a record.
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