digging through this code and set of associated files that I got thirdhand and it is driving me up a fucking wall that
A. only like 50% of these data files have a source. I can't use the other 50%, because they are named things like "TL" and "J2" that are fucking useless for trying to figure out what they are, let alone where they came from, and I couldn't use them in published work anyway if I can't cite a source for them
- instead of converting most of these data files into a consistent format structure - which would not be particularly hard- and keeping backups of the originals, the author instead inserted like fifteen different "if" statements into the code to handle reformatting various data files that don't conform to the proper format. like bro this would be so much fucking simpler to read your shitty uncommented code if you just reformatted the data files to something consistent first instead of trying to do it on-the-fly
add to that just a general lack of proper documentation all around and this code is a useful frustrating mess