ChEn263 — Lecture 8

• Link to Course Notes

Lecture 8 - File I/O and Plotting

• This lecture discusses fundamental concepts needed for reading and saving data from text files (File I/O). These notes are relatively short, but there are more extensive examples for this lecture.

• Handwritten Notes
• Video Notes

Examples

• The video below shows how to perform File I/O in Excel and how to make scatter plots.

• Example - File I/O and Plotting in Excel
• The video below shows how to perform File I/O in Python using loadtxt and savetxt and how to make scatter plots using the matplotlib.pyplot module.

• Example - File I/O and Plotting in Python
• Data Files. This zipped file contains data needed for the examples. Unzip and uncompress the file to access the data files.