Questions tagged [data-structures]
Questions on using or implementing more or less common data structures such as linked lists, structs, trees, tries, heaps etc. in Mathematica.
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Format table output
I'm trying to make a quick code to give me coordinates of some circles to be read in AUTOCAD.
When I use the format "Table" or ...
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Threading data on TimeSeries
Say I have two TimeSeries:
x = TimeSeries[{2, 4, 1, 10}, {{1, 2, 4, 5}}]
y = TimeSeries[{6, 2, 6, 3, 9}, {{1, 2, 3, 4, 5}}]
x has a value at times: 1,2,4,5
y ...
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How to import .txt file with missing data?
I have a .txt file that looks like this (direct copy from the file):
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How to join N datasets with common headers?
I am new to Dataset. I'm trying to join many datasets, naively trying to use Join, but I think I'm not using it correctly, or ...
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Most efficient method for export/import of non-traditional tensor-style dimensions of matrices/tables/lists-of-lists-of-lists(-of lists)?
Hello World!
(I did it for my first answer, so it only feels proper...I'm not nostalgic, you are!)
OKAY, here we go!
Let's start off with the good-stuff, here's my code, made relatively arbitrary, ...
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Implementing core data structures
Data structures are your friend. Using the right data structure in the right place means better performance and less work on the programmer's part.
This poses a problem in Mathematica, of course, ...
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Convert a huge txt-file into a dataset
My friend has this huge txt-log of sea levels. He wants to organize it into a dataset.
After importing it this file a used StringSplit to separate it into rows, then to singular elements
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Segment tree implementation
I want to implement a segment tree visualization. I was looked for implementation in WL but didn't find. Before I'm implementing it by myself, maybe anyone knows about some implementation that will be ...
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How can I translate some JavaScript code into Mathematica code? [closed]
I am a programmer and would like to understand another field outside of the procedural thinking of if-else and for.
I would ...
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Pascal records and Mathematica programming
Background:
"experienced" Pascal-programmer (DOS-era, never got into OOP)
proud owner of Mathematica ver 11.2
have used Mathematica for years to do my share of number crunching and plotting to ...
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How to invert MapIndexed on a ragged structure? How to construct a tree from rules?
I have an arbitrary ragged nested list-of-lists (a tree) like
A = {{a, b}, {c, d}, {{{e, f, g, h, i}, {j, k, l}}, m}, n};
Its structure is given by the rules
<...
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Converting from “matrix” data into “coordinate” data
Say I have data which looks like data1 - this is "matrix" like data (is there a better descriptor?). The data looks like a matrix, and at each point in the matrix, ...
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Approximate Nearest Neighbors in Mathematica?
Is there any support for Approximate Nearest Neighbors (ANN) in Mathematica or third-party packages? I'm looking for a good implementation of locality sensitive hashing for applications where ...
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What's the best way to import such dataset?
https://www.ocr.org.uk/Images/400305-large-data-set-lds_1-h630-2018-h640-2018-2019-pre-release-data-mei.xlsx
What's the best way to import such dataset?
I have tried to use
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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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Local Storage of Periodically Collected Data (without using DataDrop)
I would like to take periodic measurements (e.g. noise levels and temperature in my office from a Raspberry Pi, etc.), say, every minute and have a long-reaching record of this similar to Stephen's ...
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Tree-like data sets with efficient storage and retrieval
Most probably this is going to be a duplicate, sorry. I found too many questions/answers here about tree-like structures, and still could not locate what I want.
It is a followup of my previous ...
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Data re-structuring by Thread
Thread can do this
Thread[{a, {b, c, d}}]
{{a, b}, {a, c}, {a, d}}
But when above ...
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ByteCount on Function
I was comparing RAM and CPU efficiency for List, Rule, Association, Function. The following code
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Get the dimensions from the SparseArray properties
In the sparse matrix, we have a list of properties: specified elements, dimension, default, and density. I am interested in getting this data without calculating them again.
For an example, the ...
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SparseArray: accesing nonzero row and column entries
I have an enormous $m\!\times\!n$ sparse matrix $d$ with $l$ nonzero entries, stored as d=SparseArray[{{i1,j1}->w1,...,{il,jl}->wl},{m,n}];.
How do I access ...
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Given a data set, how to do the following
Please help in executing the following problem in Mathematica:
I have the following set:$A=\{1, 2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10\}$ (my actual data has more than 10 points). I need to do the following three steps:
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Dynamically update of Association
I try dynamically to add new keys and update the values of existing keys in given dataset (Association). I implement this by the following code:
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Delete duplicates and sort a list of sets separately? [closed]
I have a set where it has three subsets. I want to have each element of each subsets appears only once, sorted, but the order of subsets does not change. For example: I want to get from
$$
\{\{5,2,2,3\...
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Create Association from Expression
I have a set of algebraic expressions of a certain form, and I would like to make them into Associations in a specified way. My expressions are formed of two heads, ...
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Simple implementation of a multi-part ratio data structure
A multi-part ratio would be an expression of the form:
$e_1:e_2:e_3:\cdots:e_n$
It would have the following properties:
When the expressions are natural nos, they can be evaluated to be $$\frac{...
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HDF5 does not support string?
I did a simulation for Baccarat.
So some results are saved like this.
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Possible to add a “Heading” for the columns in HDF5 format?
A similar post was found here, but it's not using MMA.
A small test to export HDF5 file,
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determine the structure of Data in sum of two subsets Modulus $n$
I wrote a code below to determine the cases when two subsets of a set $\mathbb{Z_n}=\{0,1,2,\ldots,n-1\}$ are added together element by element (without removing the multiplicity) in $\mathbb{Z_n}$ ...
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count the pairs in a set of Data
I have a list of Data, e.g.,
list1={0, 1, 1, 1, 1, 2, 2, 3, 3}
list2={0, 1, 1, 1, 1, 2, 2, 3, 3, 0}
and I want to get as an output ...
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How to organize code for simulating many ODEs?
I have a large model with many variables (about a hundred) and many differential equations (non-linear). What is the best way to handle a system this size in Mathematica?
Note that I am not asking ...
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Multi-coloured tree plot
I am trying to create a multi-coloured tree plot (Mathematica 9) where each branch is coloured according to its parent node value. For example, for a tree plot with three nodes, n1, n2 and n3, coming ...
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How to Label only Certain Vertices in a Network Based on Eigenvector Centrality?
Using the Following Network:
footballNetwork = ExampleData[{"NetworkGraph", "AmericanCollegeFootball"}];
Graph[footballNetwork, VertexLabels -> "Name"]
I ...
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Support for low-complexity (compressible) lists
By "low-complexity list" I mean a list like the following:
lcl = {17, 17, 17, 17, 17,
21, 21, 21, 21, 21, 21, 21, 21,
11, 11, 11, 11, 11, 11, 11}
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Data structure for finding pairs of matrices under constraint
PROBLEM DESCRIPTION
Given three positive integers k, n1, n2, I have a list of matrices
matrices = Tuples[Range[0,k], {n1,n2}]
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Building matrix from relational data
I'm new to Mathematica, coming from Python, and I'm having a hard time trying to build a matrix from relational data.
The data looks like this:
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How to disallow the application of functions outside a white list?
In an earlier post I described a special kind of list (actually, a special kind of multiset) that can be represented more efficiently with a structure like this:
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How to implement a discrete data representation?
I'm currently working with large datasets of "discrete data". Each of these is a multiset of real numbers of the form $kS + B$, where $k$ is an integer, and $S$ (the "scale") and $B$ (the "bias") are ...
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How to use classical data structure in Mathematica
As a C programmer, I have used Mathematica for a month. In this process, I discovered that some problems cannot be solved via the built-ins, owing to lacking of data structure like ...
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How to use the iterator in Mathematica
I find the Mathematica has the iterator data structure. We can build some iterators like this:
Constant iterator
GeneralUtilities`ConstantIterator[5]
Key ...
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Convert between list of 3D coordinates and 2D array
I have a dataset that I import from a csv file. It's a rectangular array of values, with the first row and first column specifying the x and y coordinates. I want fit this data to a 2D function using <...
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List structure transformation
How to transform a list as
{{x,y},{a,b,c,d,e}}
into the form of
{{x,y,a},{x,y,b},{x,y,c},{x,y,d},{x,y,e}}
elegantly, ...
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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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Clustering with a certain number of members
Is it possible to find exact number of clusters with exact numbers of members in each cluster?
Something like this:
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How to efficiently implement Disjoint Set/Union Find data structure?
The data is a list of lists (sets), where all the elements are distinct. There are basically two operations.
Find the position that contains a certain element. (And fast accessing the set with this ...
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Is *.dat file suitable for storing high (>2) dimensional matrix?
The typical process goes as first one exports a numerical matrix mat
Export["test.dat",mat,"Table"]
and then imports it back ...
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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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Looking for a package for data on (sparse) uniform grids
I have large amounts of sparse 2d and 3d "volumetric" data, i.e. fixed data associated with positions in a uniform (integer coordinate) grid. I think of it as partial function
$$f: \mathbb Z^n \to D.$...
