Questions about getting data, files, images etc. from various formats into a form that can be read, tranformed and manipulated by Mathematica

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Importing LTSpice data into mathematica

I am working with LTSpice (Discret electrical circuit ( Spice) simulator). I would like to import LTSpice ouput data into mathematica for processing and plots. An example of a file can be found here ...
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How can I import images from a Microsoft SQLServer database?

I have a table with binary data (images) in Microsoft SQlServer. I want to import that data and convert it into Image format. I wrote the following code, but it's ...
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Gravatars/identicons with Mathematica

The default avatar/identicon is based on an MD5 hash of your e-mail address. With some e-mail providers (e.g., GMail) the address gmailuser+foo@gmail.com is still ...
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Plot data from txt file?

I have data in file.txt which can be expressed by 20000x11 matrix. I do not want to import all of these data. How can I plot graph of the column 1 & column 4?
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How to show wireframes on imported Object / Mesh (.obj file)

I've managed to import a Wavefront (.obj) file and store it in a variable like so: ...
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Importing images from the web using ImportString & URLFetch

I can bring images from the web using the Import command like this: Import["http://blog.wolfram.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/se-30.jpg"] Sometimes the web ...
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Importing or reading data in binary format 212

I have a binary data file in format 212, and I want to import the file into Mathematica. How do I read or import binary format 212? I almost have no direct experience of working with any binary ...
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Why doesn't DumpSave work for elements created within a local notebook context?

I recently noticed that when dealing with notebooks with local context, I cannot successfully DumpSave variables, or, rather, when I call ...
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Reading in Huge Text Files

I would like to read in really large text files (about 2GB) into Mathematica. The structure of the file is such that the first row and the first column are text i.e strings. Rest is all numbers. Is it ...
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Import matrices side-by-side separated by TAB

The problem is 0(TAB)0 interpreted falsely as a dark red square although it should be a dark red square surrounded by zeroes/ones. Import has different data-formats ...
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location of csv file when importing [closed]

I am trying to import csv file to mathmematica. However, when I tried to import, Mathematica was not able to find the file (see below). Do I have to move the csv file to the specific position? ...
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ReadList importing negative times

This is probably an easy question to answer, but I need a fresh eye... I'm struggling with processing the following file (extract shown here) It's a list of dates, and positive/negative time durations ...
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How to Import random elements of huge data files

I am calculating huge data files with an external program. I would like then to import the data into Mathematica for analysis. The files are 2 columns and up to many millions of rows. So for ...
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How to monitor the progress of Importing files? [duplicate]

I want now,how much of percentage was imported,while importing any file. How can I solve this? Can anyone help me? Thank you.
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Import large amount of data with time stamps

I have a large data file (150 000 lines) which I want to import in Mathematica. The first few lines look like this ...
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Reading periodic elements from a large file

I have a large binary data file (big endian) with 100+ million "rows" of 11 elements, combination of floats and integers. This is the format: ...
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Significant platform-dependent efficiency when importing data?

I'm curious, as I understand that answer this way: If you are using a Linux derivative or something like cygwin on Windows, then this is an efficient solution for reading only the third field ...
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Importing several huge files with headers & footers

having here several files in ASCII format http://ge.tt/91rv0Jf/v/0 I want to import, while removing headers and footers and then join the several lists. ...
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Error messages in importing data file

I want to copy the data in a public file (link in code below) and put each row of the data as a sub-list, i.e., in the format ...
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3D plot in Mathematica [closed]

I have data in my file format .dat. The data generated using 'C' program. This data file having 3 columns. How can I import this file using Mathematica? Is is possible to plot using ListDensityPlot() ...
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Convert *.txt file

I would like to Import and Convert a *.txt file which looks like: https://docs.google.com/file/d/0Bw-308nJcF01Yl92RURCLUg4VzQ/edit?usp=sharing and turn it into a Matrix which I can use to make ...
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How to make the plot from geotiff format

I have a "GeoTIFF" format map, and I have imported it into Mathematica, then I used the Graphics to plot a point on the map. ...
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Using NetLink to Import Excel File

I can import an Excel file into Mathematica easily: But when I try from .Net it fails: These are the commands and errors I am getting: ...
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How to import sound file from computer? [duplicate]

I know you can import sounds/images from the Mathematica library, but I was wondering if I could import sounds I have on my computer (i.e. .wav files)? I've tried using the Import functon and properly ...
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How to do http POST in Mathematica?

The Import command lets you do a HTTP GET from a URL, like this Import @ "http://merkosoncampus.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/higgs-boson.jpg" This sends an ...
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Check Google PageRank for a given URL

Does anyone know how to write a Mathematica function that returns the Google PageRank of a given URL? I found a tutorial for achieving this in a bash script here, but I have no idea how to port this ...
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Determining if a point is inside or outside a 3DS (.3ds) or 3DS MAX (.max) object?

Imagine I import some 3DS (i.e. 3D studio) file (http://reference.wolfram.com/mathematica/ref/format/3DS.html) or a 3DS MAX file. How could I place this model (say, the 747.3ds file in the ...
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diff-able text-only notebooks?

I would like to save my Mathematica notebooks as plain-text documents, so that I can keep them under git version control. I thought that ...
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Exporting large expression [duplicate]

I generated a huge mathematical expression (~200k terms, impossible to simplify yet) and want to save it for later analysis. Last time I did Export to *.nb file and ...
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Importing videos in Mathematica

Mathematica's Import command is purportedly able to import .AVI files. However, I find that many files that I want to import do only result in MMA showing a blank ...
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Creating ordered triplets from an Excel sheet

I have an Excel sheet of the form: " " a b c 1 R S T 2 U V W 3 X Y Z Where every entry is a number (except the blank quotes, ...
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problem with Importing multiple files

I need to import about 100000 "dat" files to my progrom. I want to do this using the last answer to this question: Importing multiple files using a for-loop I know that I should define a list of all ...
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Unencoding encoded URLs in a function

Is there a built-in function for decoding encoded URLs in Mathematica? I would like to convert an encoded URL, for example ...
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The “Source” format of Import[], where's that from? [closed]

In my attempt to import an article from The NY Times, I found it's not working. So I did some searching, and in this thread the OP was in some similar situation. It seems that the NYT's website is ...
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Exporting German Umlauts to PDF and importing them doesn't work - character encoding problem

I am using Mathematica 9.0.0.0 under German Windows 32bit. I am on trying to export and import German text to PDF and re-import it. It seems that there is a confusion about the character encoding. It ...
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Get both output and return code of external program

Run["program"] will run an external program and return the return code. Import["!program", "String"] will run the program and ...
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Importing multiple files using a for-loop

once again I am stuck solving a seemingly easy problem :( I would like to make a List of tables by importing data from several txt-Files. Importing the data into a table works so far and I am able to ...
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Plotting a large number of data points

I would like to know how to plot when I have a large number of points (arround 600) in a specific format: ...
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Reading RData files without RLink

I am using Mathematica 8. I would like to read some RData files which I have received. I do not currently have an installation of R on the machine with Mathematica.
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Automating sequential import of data from web

I am trying to import data from multiple web pages hosted by a single online source. The data is posted by the source as one data set per web page for each week of the year. I would like to import the ...
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Image Rotation, Line Symmetry

I'd like to import an image, superimpose it, reduce the opacity of the overlaid image, and then use a manipulate to rotate the top image to illustrate rotational symmetry. The image below is using ...
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Getting Mathematica.SE reputation data

I'm asking the following on behalf of Mr.Wizard. On StackOverflow I used the old v1.0 SO API and Mathematica to obtain user reputation data. Now we are no longer a tag on StackOverflow and the v2.1 ...
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Beginner question. How do I read a CSV file and remove comments from it

I have very recently started using Mathematica 9.0 Home Edition and am trying to understand it as best I can so please be tolerant ;). I have a file of data (sugar.csv) which contains blood sugar ...
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Avoiding re-evaluation of RegionPlot3D on a second computer

After running a RegionPlot3D named "testplot" on my desktop, I followed an earlier suggestion from the forum and saved it using: ...
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Exporting data from different notebooks to a common file

I am doing some calculations from different notebooks. I need to export the results from all those notebooks in columns of the same file, like a1 b1 c1 a2 b2 c2 a3 b3 c3 . . . where a, b ...
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Is it possible to use Mathematica to record sound and/or vision?

I think the title says it all. I know about ImageCapture which seems to capture stills. Can ImageCapture be made to capture a ...
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Importing a matrix from a text file

I have a $4 \times N$ matrix in a .txt file of the form: -17.071 137.567 16.554 0.65 -16.873 136.138 16.934 0.7 -15.397 135.738 16.894 0.7 -14.7 135.982 15.9 0.6 ...
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Transferring a list from one notebook to another

I have Mathematica code split into two notebooks. The first part is supposed to run and output a list of numbers into a text file, using Export. The second part ...
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Read a file into a list of vectors [closed]

I have file structured as (Axis 1) (Axis 2) Data. As an example: ...
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Import the “thumbnail” of an internet page

I have a list of internet sites links from which I would like to automatically recover the page image/thumbnail and page title. Let's suppose that one of the links is https://www.google.com/, I would ...

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