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I need to create a list from a general Excel database that requires only data from "ALL STUDENTS" rows on columns 2 and 7. Excel Data

The List most be of the form {DISTRICT, MATH} where the MATH score is only from the ALL STUDENTS group.

I'm not really sure how to go about doing this, whether i can just import specific stuff only from the file, or if I can just compose a list with specific entries. My mathematica skills are very limited and I don't find the mathematica more info option very helpful.

Any help is much appreciated

Edit: Import["SAT_District_Data_class_2011.csv", {"Sheets", 1, All, {2, 7}}][[2 ;; ;; 12]]

returns the errors:

import::noelem: The Import element "Sheets " is not present when importing as CSV Part::take: "Cannot take positions 2 through -1 in $Failed. "

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  • $\begingroup$ Does this work: Import["yourexcelfile.xlsx", {"Sheets", 1, All, {2, 7}}][[2;;;;12]]? $\endgroup$ – kglr Apr 30 '15 at 21:36
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    $\begingroup$ ... or, for the csv file, you can try Import["SAT_District_Data_class_2011.csv"][[ 2 ;; ;; 12, {2,7}]] $\endgroup$ – kglr Apr 30 '15 at 23:00
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Just for completeness the syntax to "directly" import specified rows/columns is like this:

  Import[ "test.xls", {"Data", 1, {2, 25, 71}, {32, 44}}]

which says take sheet 1 , rows 2,25&71 and columns 32,44.

For comparison this expression produces the same result by importing everything and extracting the desired parts:

  Import["test.xls"][[1, {2, 25, 71}, {32, 44}]]

Ultimately there is little if any reason to prefer the first form, even though it might appear to be more efficient. In practice it seems to perform the same or even worse for large files. Additionally the direct form can only take explicit lists of row/col numbers (or All ), but not ranges etc.

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With a sheet containing

Group Distric DistName Cityname regname region Math Critrd
All Students 1. s w g 1. 451. x
female       5  n t e 7   12. x
male         2. r y k 4.   5. x
All Students 7. g m m 9. 456. x

and the spreadsheet file named Book.xlsx and in a place where Mathematica can find it then this

data = First[Import["Book.xlsx"]];
Cases[data, {"All Students", dist_, _,_,_,_, math_, __} :> {dist,math}]

gives you

{{1., 451.}, {7., 456.}}
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