Re: [Pytables-users] Best Practice data design

2011-09-13 Thread Anthony Scopatz
Forwarded message -- > From: > Date: 14 September 2011 02:20 > Subject: Pytables-users Digest, Vol 64, Issue 4 > To: pytables-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2011 11:20:09 -0500 > From: Anthony Scopatz > Subject: Re: [Pytables-users] Best Practice da

Re: [Pytables-users] Best Practice data design

2011-09-13 Thread Damien Klassen
Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2011 11:20:09 -0500 From: Anthony Scopatz Subject: Re: [Pytables-users] Best Practice data design To: Discussion list for PyTables Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 7:56 AM, Damien Klassen wrote: >

Re: [Pytables-users] Best Practice data design

2011-09-13 Thread Anthony Scopatz
On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 7:56 AM, Damien Klassen wrote: > Hopefully an easy one for someone out there! > > Am trying to transfer some of my existing calculations from a relational DB > into pytables to speed up a range of calculations. One of the problems is > that the data has irregular dates and

Re: [Pytables-users] Best Practice

2011-09-13 Thread Anthony Scopatz
Hi Damien, I generally find it best, when storing date and/or times to use the TimeCol64(), which basically just stores the timestamp (ie the float-number of seconds since epoch). Be Well Anthony On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 6:42 AM, Damien Klassen wrote: > Hopefully an easy one for someone out ther

[Pytables-users] Best Practice data design

2011-09-13 Thread Damien Klassen
Hopefully an easy one for someone out there! Am trying to transfer some of my existing calculations from a relational DB into pytables to speed up a range of calculations. One of the problems is that the data has irregular dates and I'm not sure where to do the processing. For example: Date

[Pytables-users] Best Practice

2011-09-13 Thread Damien Klassen
Hopefully an easy one for someone out there! Am trying to transfer some of my existing calculations from a relational DB into pytables to speed up a range of calculations. One of the problems is that the data has irregular dates and I'm not sure where to do the processing. For example: Date

Re: [Pytables-users] Best practice for variable length array in/with a table

2006-03-08 Thread Francesc Altet
Hi Dav, El dt 07 de 03 del 2006 a les 16:05 -0800, en/na Dav Clark va escriure: > Hello, > > I just started looking at PyTables for a project, and am looking for some > advice. > > Problem in brief - > > * I have a variety of medical (brain) imaging datasets that I need to store. > This inc

[Pytables-users] Best practice for variable length array in/with a table

2006-03-07 Thread Dav Clark
Hello, I just started looking at PyTables for a project, and am looking for some advice. Problem in brief - * I have a variety of medical (brain) imaging datasets that I need to store. This includes things like arbitrary selections of some region of the data (e.g. a list of 3-number indices