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Import and export data

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- [Instructor] Throughout most of this course, I will show you how to perform your calculations using data we type in as lists. Most data sets that you work with will be fairly large though, so it's unlikely that you will type them in directly. In this movie, I will show you how to import and export data. I have created a new, blank, Mathematica notebook and the first thing you need to do is bring in my file. For that I will use the import command, and I will assign the values that I bring in to a variable. To start, I will type the name of my variable, I'll just call it alist. Then an equal sign, and then the import symbol or keyword, and that's capital I-m-p-o-r-t followed by a left square bracket. Now I need to identify the file I want to bring in. To do that, I will go to the Insert menu, and a little bit more than halfway down I will click the File Path item. That takes me to my Exercise Files folder and I see my comma separated value file which I created in Excel called Create…

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