Permissible data format for import
Mathematica allows the importing of hundreds of data formats, but we only need some of them: those that are amenable to mathematical processing and analysis.
The main data formats can be divided into the following groups:
- Tabular Text Formats: This includes general text format data (
*.dat
), comma-separated (*.csv
), or tab-separated (*.tsv
) - Spreadsheet Formats: This includes office programs data working with documents, such as Excel (
*.xls
and*.xlsx
), Open Office (*.odc
, and*.sxc
), and even the first spreadsheet VisiCalc data (*.di
f
) - Data Interchange Formats: This includes the JSON format
- Database Formats: This includes MS Access (
*.mdb
) and dBase (*.dbf
) - Compression and Archive Formats: This includes the files created by archivers, such as Windows ZIP (
*.zip
), Unix GZIP (*.gz
), Unix TAR (*.tar
), and BZIP2 (*.bz2
) - XML/HTML Formats: This includes extensions such as
.xml
,.xhtml
,.html
, and.rss
Note
Here, you may find the complete list of all the data formats...