23 questions linked to/from How to make use of Associations?
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### Timing: extracting from List VS extracting from Association

I was wondering, why is extracting from an Association slightly faster than extracting from a List? ...
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### Interdependent SetterBars with symbolic contents

In this question, I learned how to cascade or nest interdependent Setter and SetterBar controls with numerical Ranges. The ...
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### How to efficiently write into PackedArrays that are stored in Associations?

Using Association to generate complicated data types is very comfortable, in particular if one uses those tricks from How to make use of Associations?. However, I ...
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### How does one create getter methods that depend on a variable (besides its argument)?

In the (as always) insigthful answer by Leonard Shifrin to this MMA SE post https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/52393/how-to-make-use-of-associations ...
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### List, Association, and Dataset, according to what principles to choose which one to use?

List, Association and Dataset are three 'objects' that can be used to store data in MMA. So ...
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### Create tree association using table

Suppose I have a table like the following (This example is simplified, actual table is much larger), it is read from external files: ...
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### Which Object-oriented paradigm approach to use in Mathematica?

Which Object-Oriented Paradigm (OOP) approach to use in Mathematica for: general implementation, or a particular project? There are a lot of related questions and answers in MSE on doing OOP that ...
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### Using Associations and Pattern matching in numerical functions possibly broken

It looks like the very young feature of pattern matching (/replacing) within Associations (https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/a/119542/6804), with or without ...
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### Assigning to multiple variables in a list the values in another list

I have two lists, one contains the variables and the other the corresponding values that the variables should take. ...
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### Reshaping associations, generalization of GroupBy

Let's say we have a set a\of associations: ...
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### Time complexity to choose the right overload from the memoized function

If we want to save some outputs of the function, we often use the memoization pattern as follows, f[x_]:=f[x]=x f/@Range[10^5] If I call this function many times ...
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### How does thing[“property”] syntax work?

Many builtin "things" support the (usually undocumented) syntax thing["property"], and usually the available properties can be listed using thing["Properties"] (thing["Methods"] might work too). ...
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### Create Nested List from tabular data

Im trying to create a nested list from tabular data, then onward into a nested association. I can get part way with the help of this answer but it only works for the first level. Repeated use of this ...
Does Mathematica support any data structure representing an unordered set (without multiplicity) of Mathematica expressions? I would like this data structure to support $O(1)$ insertion, deletion, and ...