Data Tool (Version 6.0.4)

Description

Data Tool is a simple data analysis program that is often integrated into Open Source Physics (OSP) programs, such as the Tracker video analysis and modeling program. It can also be used as a standalone program and this web page demonstrates that capability.

Note that users can reposition the main Tracker window by dragging the title bar and that the window can be resized by dragging the lower right hand corner.

Dataset File Formats

JavaScript Data Tool supports the following dataset formats:

• OSP Program generate xml dataset files.
• Comma Separate Values (CVS) plain text files. Each line in the text file contains a row of numeric values separated by commas. If the first row contains alphanumeric text separated by commas, it is assumed to be a column header list.

Click on the links below to test the analysis and display capabilities of Data Tool.

• A simple template for data entry. Click in the Edit Table button to quickly add (x,y) data in CVS format.
• Data exported from an OSP simulation
• Mean temperature variation on Earth from 1880 to 2016.

Users can download xml files or CVS datasets to the desktop and then use the File options in the main menu to open or import them into Data Tool.

1. FirstPlotData.txt
2. FirstPlotData.xml

The Java implementation of the Data Tool program was written by Doug Brown at Cabrillo College using portions of the Open Source Physics code library developed by Wolfgang Christian at Davidson College. Data Tool was later converted from Java to JavaScript by Doug Brown, Wolfgang Christian and Robert Hanson using the SwingJS system developed by Hanson and his students at St. Olaf College. This web page runs the JavaScript conversion.