Exercise 2B: Importing your own data in an XY table in Prism

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Import the Galileo data set. It's a comma separated value file and it corresponds to an XY table in Prism. Csv files are plain text representations of tables. They consist of lines of text. Each line consists of a series of values, one value for each column of the table. All values are separated by a comma.
This file contains data recorded by Galileo in 1609 during his investigations of the trajectory of a falling body:

• init.h: initial height of the ball
• h.d: horizontal distance traveled

Import the data set.

So this time we fetch the data from an existing file. Create a new table to hold the data (File -> New -> New data table and graph), see the previous section for details. Import the data in this new table using the top menu: Browse to the file you want to import, select it and click Open. This opens the Import and Paste Special Choices window. Here you can specify exactly how Prism should interpret the file. The most important feature is specifying the meaning of commas. Since the file is a csv commas are used to separate data values from different columns: Click Import. This opens the data in the main window: