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Beginner needing advice with data files - JFI2019 - Nov-06-2019
Hello there, I am a complete newbie to Python as a whole, and need some advice, to be precise, I need to handle .dat files describing a few hundred thousand-few million particles' positions. I am sorry if I look lazy, what I think I need is just being pointed to tutorials and IDE in which to do this. What I am supposed to do is take a .dat file which has position information in columns and create a histogram from that. Over time I am also supposed to rotate the positions according to a sigma matrix, but that is not the immediate issue. So my question is - what IDE is the best for this task, what libraries do I need, are there any tutorials that really fit this task?
Thanks in advance for your patience
RE: Beginner needing advice with data files - ThomasL - Nov-06-2019
That sounds like data science to me.
I would use an interactive Python environment like JupyterLab .
Must have modules are Numpy, Pandas and Matplotlib. A lot of tutorials can be found on Youtube.
I like this guy Kevin Markham. His website with lots of free and paid tutorials.
RE: Beginner needing advice with data files - JFI2019 - Nov-06-2019
Thanks a lot, I will try that at once!