Adding, Deleting, and Analyzing Time Series Data
To add, delete, or analyze time series data, assure the
time series data theme is active and click on the
Add/Delete/Analyze Time Series Data tool (Figure 5-2)
and click on the desired time series data location. HyPAS
displays the Time Series Data Analysis menu
(Figure 5-3).
Figure 5-2.
Add/delete/analyze time series
Figure 5-3. Time series data analysis menu
To add time series data to a location, click on the Add Data option. A menu
showing all time series data types is displayed (Figure 5-4). Click on the type of
data to add. A report menu is shown describing the file format for the import file.
These data must be in a comma-delimited text (.txt) file. The first five fields must
be Year, Month, Day, Hour, and Minute. The remainder of the data must contain at
least one field of a Quantity Value for Display. This file must have six header lines
and one line of column titles. A data file format example is shown below:
Header Info
Header Info
Header Info
Header Info
Header Info
Header Info
Year, Month, Day, Hour, Minute, temp-avg-c, temp-max-c, temp-min-c
1998,5,18,12,30,9.2,9.4,8.9
1998,5,18,12,45,9.1,9.3,8.9
The user is then prompted to select the file containing the data (Figure 5-5).
The data are read, and the user is prompted to select the columns of data to import
(Figure 5-6) because one file may contain extra columns of data. The user will be
returned to the file selection menu (Figure 5-5) to select more files. Click Cancel
when finished importing data files for this type. The data are imported and ready for
analysis.
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