Questions tagged [data-format]
Specific forms of data storage and file types external to Mathematica.
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How to read data file quickly?
I have a tab separated value file with 10 million rows each of which has three tab separated values. The first value is a string, the second an integer, and the third another string. How to read ...
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Problem with NumberForm when exporting
I have a two-part question regarding NumberForm
First question
In my attempt at answering this i stumbled upon a strange behavior by NumberForm when the final result is exported.
Lets say I have ...
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Download xkcd Click and Drag comic
Inspired by the recent question about xkcd styled plots I started looking at xkcd again and I came across a comic titled Click and Drag. And if you do that, you start exploring a larger drawing. A ...
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DataEncoding and compression in HDF5 format
I would like to export data in HDF5 format with Mathematica 9.
The Mathematica manual about Import and Export of this format can be read here.
As I'm dealing with large arrays, export often lead to ...
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Accidentally corrupted graphics (?) data of notebook — now it won't open
In the process of editing my scripts' variable names with a haphazard "replace in all open files" in my text editor, I accidentally replaced portions of graphics data in a notebook (and I believe this ...
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Converting other C++ classes to MTensor in LibraryLink
Hopefully this will be a quick question + a quick answer:
Say I have a C++ (or C) code using LibraryLink. I am using a library that defines a specific matrix class, as many numerical libraries ...
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Backward compatibility issues while DumpSaving Interpolation polynomials
I have bkwrd compatibility issues when I save my NDSolve result (which is an interpolating polynomia) using DumpSave from Mathematica 8 on Windows 7 and then try ...
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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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How to make Import recognize a new file extension?
I've written an import converter for a custom file format, and it all seems to be working as expected, except for the fallback behavior with no arguments:
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Organizing similar datasets using Contexts or otherwise
I often import several long time series to analyze something about a city. When I have multiple cities, I use contexts. As a simple example,
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Import YAML file into Mathematica
Has anyone implemented the import of YAML data files into Mathematica? I suppose some sort of transformation into a nested list of rules would be the way to do it. Thanks
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Getting EPS imports to respect the original fill rule
One major problem in my attempt to answer to the CountryData flags question is that the way Mathematica handles filled curves differs from the way SVG and EPS style editors do. The latter two have the ...
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Support for Compressed Sparse Column sparse matrix representation
Is there native support for Compressed Sparse Column (CSC) format for sparse matrices, like importing and manipulating them?
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Plotting data with exponentials
I have some data with 19000 sublists such as :
{" 7.9080000e+01 1.9283193e+04"}
Where the first number is the value for variable ...
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Do, Write Through
Using:
Do[Write[OUTFILE, #] & @@ Through[{(#) &, Sin[#] &, Cos[#] &}[n]], {n, {1, 2, 3, 4}}]
results with file content:
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