.mat file not converting to .csv

I'm trying to work with data from https://data.vision.ee.ethz.ch/cvl/rrothe/imdb-wiki/ . They provide a .mat file that contains gender, age, name, etc. corresponding to facial images. As I primarily work in Python, I would like to convert this to a csv file. I load the .mat file into Octave, and it gives this when I type 'whos':
Attr Name Size Bytes Class
==== ==== ==== ===== =====
FileData 1x1 7215591 struct
As I have been reading online, since it is a struct, I need to specify which variables to convert to csv for it to export properly. However, I don't know how to find a list for which variables I can enter. I also can't understand the way they stored the data. I would like to export all of the data, since I can pick and choose easier once it's in Python, but I just keep running into errors and don't know how to explore data very well in Matlab. Please Help!

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Ameer Hamza
Ameer Hamza on 7 Jun 2020
Edited: Ameer Hamza on 7 Jun 2020
Following works in MATLAB
M = structfun(@(x) x.', wiki, 'UniformOutput', 0);
T = struct2table(M);
writetable(T, 'test.csv');
The csv file for the mat file in the question is attached to this answer.

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