Questions tagged [associations]
Questions on the associative data-structure introduced in Mathematica version 10.
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How to use a function as a value in an association? [on hold]
I just started learning Mathematica. I was wondering if it is possible to use a function as an value in an association. Ideally, it would be something like this:
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How to associate the elements of a list to numbers?
I am having problems to understand the association function.
I have a list of lists containing numbers:
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Taking the first element in a list of associations
I have the following list which is built up of associations, that is,
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Sort Associations by its Values (which are nested lists)
I have associations where the values are nested lists:
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Evaluated vs. unevaluated Association
This question might have a remote connection to my older question, it is also about sameness of expressions and subtle differences observable only in certain forms.
I encountered this strange ...
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Edit value in nested Association
Here is a simplified version of my problem.
I have a nested Association.
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How to define a functional that produces at runtime a function by evaluating selected parts in its definition?
Consider the following functional as an example:
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Row Keys in Datasets: JoinAcross row keys; Demoting or deleting row keys
I want to combine two datasets that share row keys but have different column keys. Visually, this looks like a JoinAcross on the row keys to me, but the column of row keys doesn't appear to be named. ...
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Creating a new Dataset column using a map from a second Dataset
Say I have two datasets: one is a detailed list of events, and one is a coarse list of events. I want to add a column to the detailed list from the coarse list (for the purposes of sorting).
For ...
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Having trouble distributing a large association to sub-kernels
The following seems to work based on memory usage.
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Iterate over deepest values in a nested Association
Is it possible to iterate over the values of the deepest layer of keys in a nested association? For example:
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Wrapping an association with a specialization of the buildin `Set` (=) function?
I want to wrap some association data into a dedicated symbol (S by example)
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How to use KeyValuePattern with individual replacement rules?
What's the syntax to use individual replacement rules for key-value patterns?
This returns only the first match:
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Neat redistribution of association values
Given an original association:
original = <| "a" -> {a1, a2}, "b" -> {b1, b2}, "c" -> {c1, c2} |>
and a set of redistribution rules e.g.
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Hierarchically adding {…keys..}->value to an association
Given a list of keys {"a","b","c"} and a value 3 (associated to the last key) I want to define a function that is equivalent to ...
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Get Windows registry into Mathematica as an association
Windows probably is the only operating system that has a separate database of configuration instructions and paths. The windows registry looks exactly like a giant nested association. Also probably is ...
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Inconsistency in getting Keys, Values and Query for nested Rules
Querying nested Rule expressions of the form
a -> v -> b // FullForm
Rule[a,Rule[v,b]]
for ...
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Turns nested Lists into nested Associations, ReplaceAll for list vs ReplacsAll for association
I want to transform some nested lists into nested associations except the "rows"->List pattern.
Here is the example
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Sorting each column in a nested list contained in an association
I have an Association which contains three arrays 200x1000x2.
Each row m of a matrix denotes a different set of parameters, while
each column n contains the outcomes of the function for a specific ...
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Association on a list [closed]
I have a dataset under this form :
sentence = {sentence1, sentence2, sentence3,...}
and a list of label :
label = {1,2,3,4,5,6,7...} both have same length !
So I want to make an association ...
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Inexact numbers as keys in Association?
Can someone explain me how Mathematica's Associations behave with inexact numbers as keys:
<| 0.22499999999999964` -> a |> [0.22499999999999965`]
and
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Reducing boilerplate with associations
I'm looking for advice either on alternative ways to approach my problem in general, or specifically on meta-programming (which seems to me to be a way around this). In my work I have databases of ...
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How do I Select when the key of an association is a multi-word string [closed]
I have imported some survey responses into a Dataset. I now want to select those rows where the response to "participant type" == "Virtual". I discovered that this ...
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Deleting missing values from a dataset
I wanted to create a dataset of all UFO sightings in April of 2018. The
AssociationThread doesn't want to work, because some of the entries are missing value, what ...
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Is it possible to avoid unpacking when merging Association?
For example, if we have
assoc =
AssociationThread[{1, 2, 3} -> RandomReal[1., {3, 10}]];
and
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Obtaining a matrix of complex values from associations giving the real and imaginary parts of each element?
I have a list of associations keyed by real and imaginary numbers, like so:
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Converting an expression with strings to an association
I have an expression which contains a bunch of strings and some complex valued numeric factors in front. A couple of summands might look like this:
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Picking/Selecting in an association
suppose I have 2 associations
t1=<|"a" -> 1, "b" -> 2, "c" -> 3, "d" -> 4|>
and
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Define an access by key ( structure[key] ) for a custom structure struct?
I have some "complicated" data that I want to encapsulate into a "struct":
For instance (imagine that data have several fields):
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Unexpected behaviour of Nothing inside List inside Association
When evaluating the following input:
<|a -> {c, d, e}|> /. d -> Nothing
I get (expression 1):
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Ranking polynomials based on global maxima
Suppose I have the following polynomials in an association i.e. <|...|>, they are:
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How to prevent arguments UpValues from being used in selective functions
Ok, I know the simple answer is to set some form of Hold attribute to the function but bear with me for a bit while I explain my motivation and why that is not quite what I want.
I have a collection ...
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Bottom-most left-most entries in a sparse array
I have a list bdrs of SparseArrays, which represent the boundary matrices of a chain complex $R^{d_0}\overset{\partial_1}{\...
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Delete zeros from a sparse array [duplicate]
Why doesn't SparseArray automatically remove zero entries? The code
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Substitute for Association inside Compile?
Associations are not compilable, so I’m looking for a workaround to this. That is, I need a mutable hashtable-like data structure with fast key value lookups ...
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Min and Max of a list of Associations
I am trying to find the minimum values for all elements in a list of associations, below is an example
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Iterate over keys of association
How do you iterate over the keys or rules of an association (in any order)? E.g. for
<|"0"->"a", "1"->"b", "2"->"c"|>
I would like to either ...
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KeySelect via Not[StringMatchQ[Pattern]] fails
I have an Association asc that has mixed type Keys:
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Aggregate function problem
I use a function to do something similar to a SQL sum. I've asked about simplifying it in another post. I'm still using this function and it works well for aggregates like ...
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unexpected result from augmented assignment to association
Is the last of these results expected? If so, how?
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Parallelize[MapIndexed[…,Association[…]]] returns broken result
Bug introduced in 10.0.2 or earlier and persisting through 12.0
Confirmed: CASE:4041910
Consider the following example:
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Parallelize the construction of sparse matrices
I'm trying to parallelize a few constructions of chain complexes (given as a list of sparse matrices). I have a function that for any column (or row) computes the list of nonzero entries in that ...
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Extracting Parts of Speech
I am looking to parse the ConstituentsTree from TextStructure.
Someone already asked how to get the proper nouns out of a text here:
Extract names from a document
I am looking for a more general ...
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speedy update of list of associations
Suppose as is a list of associations that I want to update.
For example:
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