Support for excel files

[Murdock135]

Feature request

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Motivation

Excel files are very common as datasets.

Your contribution

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[Rocketknight1]

Hi @Murdock135, you can save Excel files as CSV, which should be loadable in datasets!

[Murdock135]

Hi @Rocketknight1. Thank you for the suggestion but my excel files contain dozens of sheets and the researchers would ideally like to have them as they are. I could write a routine that separates the sheets and put them in folders according to what excel file they came from but it would've been nice to have support for excel.

[Rocketknight1]

Hmn, interesting convenience feature in that case cc @lhoestq in case you know any Python packages that read Excel 😅