Re: looking for a file format for time series data other software can easily consume

2017-11-01 Thread Dan Hitt
On Wed, Nov 1, 2017 at 1:00 PM, Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote: > On 01/11/17 20:38, Dan Hitt wrote: >> >> The NetCDF does seem to do what i want. As far as i can tell, it >> allows you to set metadata at the file level as well as attributes >> attached to specific arrays in your data. It can be insta

Re: looking for a file format for time series data other software can easily consume

2017-11-01 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
On 01/11/17 20:38, Dan Hitt wrote: The NetCDF does seem to do what i want. As far as i can tell, it allows you to set metadata at the file level as well as attributes attached to specific arrays in your data. It can be installed in debian (packages libnetcdf-dev, netcdf-doc, netcdf-bin). The a

Re: looking for a file format for time series data other software can easily consume

2017-11-01 Thread Dan Hitt
On Tue, Oct 31, 2017 at 12:21 PM, Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote: > On 31/10/17 19:33, Dan Hitt wrote: >> >> I plan to produce some time series data and i would like it to be in a >> form that makes it easy or effortless for pre-existing programs to >> plot or even process further. > > > NetCDF is very

Re: looking for a file format for time series data other software can easily consume

2017-10-31 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
On 31/10/17 19:33, Dan Hitt wrote: I plan to produce some time series data and i would like it to be in a form that makes it easy or effortless for pre-existing programs to plot or even process further. NetCDF is very popular for scientific applications. NetCDF-4 uses HDF5 (also mentioned in t

Re: looking for a file format for time series data other software can easily consume

2017-10-31 Thread Henning Follmann
On Mon, Oct 30, 2017 at 11:33:36PM -0700, Dan Hitt wrote: > I plan to produce some time series data and i would like it to be in a > form that makes it easy or effortless for pre-existing programs to > plot or even process further. > > The data would consist of a few hundred to a few thousand time

Re: looking for a file format for time series data other software can easily consume

2017-10-31 Thread Darac Marjal
On Mon, Oct 30, 2017 at 11:33:36PM -0700, Dan Hitt wrote: I plan to produce some time series data and i would like it to be in a form that makes it easy or effortless for pre-existing programs to plot or even process further. The data would consist of a few hundred to a few thousand time points,

Re: looking for a file format for time series data other software can easily consume

2017-10-31 Thread deloptes
Dan Hitt wrote: > So i'd appreciate any advice or suggestions, and thanks in advance! > when you have chosen the tool that will do the work, look at what format it accepts and dump the data in this format. from what you said it might be done in xml or DB if there are internal relations regards