Quick tutorial over on the work medium channel for working with CouchDB and CSV/TSV files: https://medium.com/ibm-watson-data-lab/simple-csv-import-for-couchdb-71616200b095
A writeup of Amanda Folson’s talk from php|tek, published on the work medium channel: https://medium.com/ibm-watson-data-lab/10-things-i-hate-about-your-api-amanda-folson-2189f0d9dc3f