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Selecting Observations Without Rewriting the Table

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Selecting observations is a recurring problem in scientific computing: a calculation might need only a certain period, a particular group, or measurements that satisfy a condition. Keeping a decision beside each observation separates the selection rule from the stored measurements.

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Python: lists, tuples, sets and dictionaries
NumPy indexing and Boolean selection

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