Okay, so today I wanted to mess around with getting some results displayed in a way that made sense. I had this data, see, from a project I’m working on, and it was all just… there. Numbers and stuff, but not really telling me anything at a glance. I needed a way to, like, see what was going on. It is for the bristol project, So, “bristol results” it is!
First, I grabbed my raw data. It was a huge mess, I’m gonna be honest. Just a big old text file, mostly numbers separated by commas. You know, the usual unholy mess.
Then, I opened up my trusty text editor. Could have used a spreadsheet program, but I’m old-school like that sometimes. I started by cleaning things up.
- I deleted a bunch of extra lines that were just comments or headers I didn’t need.
- I made sure each row had the same number of data points. Gotta keep things consistent, right?
- I replaced some weird symbols with actual numbers, because whoever made this file… ugh.
After I got the data cleaned up, which took a while, ngl, I started thinking about how to display it. It all came down to the basic categories, so that’s what I went with. I manually made some columns and arranged the data accordingly.
I saved my changes, closed my editor, and BAM! There it was. Now I can look at it and have a sense of what’s going on.
It’s not perfect, far from it. I’ll probably tweak it more later, maybe even find a better way to visualize the data.
But for now? It works. I can see the results, and that’s what matters.
