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Chapter 3. Efficiently Fabricating and Managing Scientific Data
This chapter is all about data for scientific computations. It introduces the concepts of this data, and then covers the various toolkits used to manage this data and the operations to be performed on it. After that, various data formats and random-number-based techniques for generating synthetic numerical data are discussed.
In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:
- The basics of data, information, and knowledge
- The concepts of various pieces of data storage software and tools
- Operations that can be performed on the data
- Details of the standard formats for scientific data
- A discussion on ready-to-use datasets
- Synthetic data generation using random numbers
- The idea of large-scale datasets