I've heard that opening .xls files in LibreOffice can sometimes result in truncated data, depending on how the spreadsheet was created. .csv files, however, seem to work fine.

I've done some research, and everyone seems to recommend using a virtual machine (VM) in this situation. Since we only need these files in the initial stage for importing into a Jupyter Notebook and performing exploratory data analysis (EDA), I think a VM is a reasonable solution and maybe never need to do that.

Thanks, mate 🤙