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Working with appended tabular data - Processing Tutorial
From the course: Processing: Interactive Data Visualization
Working with appended tabular data
If you want to do any data visualization in Processing, the single most important thing to do is to actually get your data into Processing, and that can also be an unusually challenging procedure, because Processing doesn't really have any built-in functions for doing this. On the other hand, a number of people have developed methods to facilitate the integration of external data files into Processing, and I'm going to show you one of them, probably the simplest, and it's for reading and external spreadsheet file saved as a tab-separated values, or TSV, file and using those values in Processing, by using a table class developed by Ben Fry, who is one of the cofounders of Processing. Now, the good news about version 2.0 of Processing is that the table class will become part of Processing. And it's not there yet, because we're still using an alpha right now, but I can only assume that since it's probably going to be written by the same guy, that it will be very similar to what we have…
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