Data Analysis

I have started to get interested in Hidden Markov Models (HMM). As a warm-up, I prepared a pure Python implementation of the relevant algorithms (github).

I occasionally see references to the HDF5 file format, but I have never encountered it in the wild. But a recent project generated multiple data sets simultaneously, in addition to metadata. Was there a better way than maintaining a collection of flat files? This prompted me to look at HDF5.

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