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  "title": "read EEG data",
  "url": "/competitions/seizure-prediction/discussion/10375",
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  "post_date": "2014-09-17T17:02:44.843Z",
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  "content": "<p>hi</p>\n<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;i'm new to EEG,may i know how to read this EEG files in matlab.Is there any way other than using EEGLAB.</p>",
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      "postDate": "09/17/2014 17:02:44",
      "content": "<p>hi</p>\n<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;i'm new to EEG,may i know how to read this EEG files in matlab.Is there any way other than using EEGLAB.</p>",
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      "postDate": "09/17/2014 18:40:22",
      "content": "<p>Its a mat file, open it in matlab.</p>",
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      "content": "<p>You can open it in R ( there is a script/solution on the forum) &nbsp;or python with scipy:&nbsp;<strong>scipy.io.loadmat(&quot;matlab filename&quot;)</strong><br><br></p>",
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      "postDate": "11/06/2014 14:15:58",
      "content": "<p>What is R?</p>",
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      "postDate": "11/06/2014 15:13:18",
      "content": "<p>[quote=Soheil Hooshdaran;57401]</p>\n<p>What is R?</p>\n<p>[/quote]</p>\n<p>Question of the century!</p>",
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      "postDate": "11/06/2014 16:00:40",
      "content": "<p>[quote=Abhishek;57406]</p>\n<p>[quote=Soheil Hooshdaran;57401]</p>\n<p>What is R?</p>\n<p>[/quote]</p>\n<p>Question of the century!</p>\n<p>[/quote]</p>\n<p>OK,</p>\n<p>please answer me</p>",
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      "postDate": "11/06/2014 16:05:31",
      "content": "<p>http://www.r-project.org/</p>",
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      "postDate": "11/06/2014 16:13:03",
      "content": "<p>[quote=Soheil Hooshdaran;57410]</p>\n<p>[quote=Abhishek;57406]</p>\n<p>[quote=Soheil Hooshdaran;57401]</p>\n<p>What is R?</p>\n<p>[/quote]</p>\n<p>Question of the century!</p>\n<p>[/quote]</p>\n<p>OK,</p>\n<p>please answer me</p>\n<p>[/quote]</p>\n<p><a href=\"http://www.r-project.org/\">R</a>&nbsp;is a programming language often used in statistical computing.</p>\n<p>As with most&nbsp;forums on the internet, you are unlikely to get a warm reception for questions that you can easily answer yourself with&nbsp;a <a href=\"http://lmgtfy.com/?q=r\">search engine</a>. Whether or not it is your intention, questions like these&nbsp;can come off as&nbsp;implying that the two seconds of time you could have spent to answer your own question are more valuable than the multitude of seconds someone else must spend typing you an answer. It is not hard to imagine&nbsp;how people might find this ungracious or off-putting, so doing a little legwork of your own first can go a long way to improving your forum experience :)</p>",
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      "postDate": "11/06/2014 17:44:56",
      "content": "<p>Yes, sorry. I had never viewed it from such an angle.</p>\n<p>And do I absolutely need a 64-bit&nbsp; system and a 64-bit Matlab, as my professor told me, or is there an open-source software there, like octave or scilab (I&nbsp; know neither Matlab nor any other such lang. And suck at stats)</p>",
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      "postDate": "11/08/2014 08:21:55",
      "content": "<p>A lot of challengers use python with sklearn or R. Both are free and open source.</p>",
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      "postDate": "11/10/2014 05:01:36",
      "content": "<p>My problem is firstly that I cannot&nbsp; extract&nbsp; a single file (dog_5). My extractor gives a &quot;disk full&quot; error. I am extracting it to my g:&nbsp; drive, which has some 12 gigabytes free.</p>",
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      "content": "<p>You need around 150 GB+to play with this challenge.</p>\n\n<p>[quote=Soheil Hooshdaran;57578]</p>\n<p>My problem is firstly that I cannot&nbsp; extract&nbsp; a single file (dog_5). My extractor gives a &quot;disk full&quot; error. I am extracting it to my g:&nbsp; drive, which has some 12 gigabytes free.</p>\n<p>[/quote]</p>",
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      "postDate": "11/10/2014 11:14:22",
      "content": "<p>[quote=Steven Du;57589]</p>\n<p>You need around 150 GB+to play with this challenge.</p>\n<p>[/quote]</p>\n<p>My first Kaggle competition (Merck) cost me a lot of money. After coming in 214 out of 236, I said screw that and threw down a big chunk of change on a workstation.</p>",
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      "postDate": "11/10/2014 16:58:38",
      "content": "<p>[quote=inversion;57590]</p>\n<p>My first Kaggle competition (Merck) cost me a lot of money. After coming in 214 out of 236, I said screw that and threw down a big chunk of change on a workstation.</p>\n<p>[/quote]</p>\n<p>screw?! Are you a prisoner?! LOL</p>\n<p>What about dog_5, which is 2.6 GB?</p>\n<p>[quote=Steven Du;57589]</p>\n<p>You need around 150 GB+to play with this challenge.</p>\n<p>[/quote]</p>\n<p>But I open the extracted folder&nbsp; and&nbsp; see it is only 3.99 GB, when extracting Dog_5</p>\n<p>What can be the problem then?</p>",
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      "postDate": "11/10/2014 17:55:47",
      "content": "<p>[quote=Soheil Hooshdaran;57619]</p>\n<p>What about dog_5, which is 2.6 GB?</p>\n<p>[/quote]</p>\n<p>I haven't had memory issues as long as I'm not careless. But if I need lots of in-memory processing, I use <a href=\"http://www.dominodatalab.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Domino</a>'s 240 Gb RAM instance.</p>\n<p>EDIT: This is my <a href=\"https://app.dominoup.com/referSignup?referrer=user-inversion\" target=\"_blank\">Domino referral link</a>, which gets me a bit of free compute time. The link above is a non-referral link.</p>",
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      "postDate": "11/10/2014 20:10:50",
      "content": "<p>I am freeing a few more MB's!</p>\n<p>But I&nbsp; can never reach the 150+ GB limit (have only 138 GB's under my Windows OS)</p>\n<p>And Domino is proprietory. You are wealthy.</p>",
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      "postDate": "11/10/2014 20:14:05",
      "content": "<p>[quote=Soheil Hooshdaran;57664]</p>\n<p>And Domino is proprietory. You are wealthy.</p>\n<p>[/quote]</p>\n<p>Not after a long Domino run . . . &nbsp; &nbsp;:-)</p>",
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      "content": "<p>[quote=inversion;57666]</p>\n<p>Not after a long Domino run . . . &nbsp; &nbsp;:-)</p>\n<p>[/quote]</p>\n\n<p>What do you mean?</p>",
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      "postDate": "11/10/2014 20:28:05",
      "content": "<p>[quote=Soheil Hooshdaran;57670]</p>\n<p>[quote=inversion;57666]</p>\n<p>Not after a long Domino run . . . &nbsp; &nbsp;:-)</p>\n<p>[/quote]</p>\n<p>What do you mean?</p>\n<p>[/quote]</p>\n<p>Meaning my credit card gets a bill for the minutes I've used. (Even though it's overall cheaper than getting a larger system, it still hurts to pay as you go.)</p>",
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      "content": "<p>[quote=inversion;57671]</p>\n<p>[quote=Soheil Hooshdaran;57670]</p>\n<p>[quote=inversion;57666]</p>\n<p>Meaning my credit card gets a bill for the minutes I've used. (Even though it's overall cheaper than getting a larger system, it still hurts to pay as you go.)</p>\n<p>[/quote]</p>\n\n<p>I didn't get how Domino can spare you buying new hardware</p>",
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      "postDate": "11/10/2014 21:41:54",
      "content": "<p>[quote=Soheil Hooshdaran;57673]</p>\n<p>I didn't get how Domino can spare you buying new hardware</p>\n<p>[/quote]</p>\n<p>Domino is an easy way to run your code on Amazon's computers.</p>",
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      "postDate": "11/11/2014 03:55:12",
      "content": "<p>[quote=inversion;57683]</p>\n<p>Domino is an easy way to run your code on Amazon's computers.</p>\n<p>[/quote]</p>\n<p>You mean you use an NAS?</p>\n<p>How then are you gonna address the location of files?</p>",
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      "author_name": "franklyn",
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      "post_date": "09/17/2014 18:40:22",
      "content": "<p>Its a mat file, open it in matlab.</p>",
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      "author_name": "tofguerrier",
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      "content": "<p>You can open it in R ( there is a script/solution on the forum) &nbsp;or python with scipy:&nbsp;<strong>scipy.io.loadmat(&quot;matlab filename&quot;)</strong><br><br></p>",
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      "post_date": "11/06/2014 14:15:58",
      "content": "<p>What is R?</p>",
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      "author_name": "abhishek",
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      "post_date": "11/06/2014 15:13:18",
      "content": "<p>[quote=Soheil Hooshdaran;57401]</p>\n<p>What is R?</p>\n<p>[/quote]</p>\n<p>Question of the century!</p>",
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      "post_date": "11/06/2014 16:00:40",
      "content": "<p>[quote=Abhishek;57406]</p>\n<p>[quote=Soheil Hooshdaran;57401]</p>\n<p>What is R?</p>\n<p>[/quote]</p>\n<p>Question of the century!</p>\n<p>[/quote]</p>\n<p>OK,</p>\n<p>please answer me</p>",
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      "author_name": "abhishek",
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      "post_date": "11/06/2014 16:05:31",
      "content": "<p>http://www.r-project.org/</p>",
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      "author_name": "lad215562",
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      "post_date": "11/06/2014 16:13:03",
      "content": "<p>[quote=Soheil Hooshdaran;57410]</p>\n<p>[quote=Abhishek;57406]</p>\n<p>[quote=Soheil Hooshdaran;57401]</p>\n<p>What is R?</p>\n<p>[/quote]</p>\n<p>Question of the century!</p>\n<p>[/quote]</p>\n<p>OK,</p>\n<p>please answer me</p>\n<p>[/quote]</p>\n<p><a href=\"http://www.r-project.org/\">R</a>&nbsp;is a programming language often used in statistical computing.</p>\n<p>As with most&nbsp;forums on the internet, you are unlikely to get a warm reception for questions that you can easily answer yourself with&nbsp;a <a href=\"http://lmgtfy.com/?q=r\">search engine</a>. Whether or not it is your intention, questions like these&nbsp;can come off as&nbsp;implying that the two seconds of time you could have spent to answer your own question are more valuable than the multitude of seconds someone else must spend typing you an answer. It is not hard to imagine&nbsp;how people might find this ungracious or off-putting, so doing a little legwork of your own first can go a long way to improving your forum experience :)</p>",
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      "post_date": "11/06/2014 17:44:56",
      "content": "<p>Yes, sorry. I had never viewed it from such an angle.</p>\n<p>And do I absolutely need a 64-bit&nbsp; system and a 64-bit Matlab, as my professor told me, or is there an open-source software there, like octave or scilab (I&nbsp; know neither Matlab nor any other such lang. And suck at stats)</p>",
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      "author_name": "vnefedov",
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      "post_date": "11/08/2014 08:21:55",
      "content": "<p>A lot of challengers use python with sklearn or R. Both are free and open source.</p>",
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      "post_date": "11/10/2014 05:01:36",
      "content": "<p>My problem is firstly that I cannot&nbsp; extract&nbsp; a single file (dog_5). My extractor gives a &quot;disk full&quot; error. I am extracting it to my g:&nbsp; drive, which has some 12 gigabytes free.</p>",
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      "author_name": "stevendu",
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      "post_date": "11/10/2014 10:29:17",
      "content": "<p>You need around 150 GB+to play with this challenge.</p>\n\n<p>[quote=Soheil Hooshdaran;57578]</p>\n<p>My problem is firstly that I cannot&nbsp; extract&nbsp; a single file (dog_5). My extractor gives a &quot;disk full&quot; error. I am extracting it to my g:&nbsp; drive, which has some 12 gigabytes free.</p>\n<p>[/quote]</p>",
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      "author_name": "inversion",
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      "post_date": "11/10/2014 11:14:22",
      "content": "<p>[quote=Steven Du;57589]</p>\n<p>You need around 150 GB+to play with this challenge.</p>\n<p>[/quote]</p>\n<p>My first Kaggle competition (Merck) cost me a lot of money. After coming in 214 out of 236, I said screw that and threw down a big chunk of change on a workstation.</p>",
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      "post_date": "11/10/2014 16:58:38",
      "content": "<p>[quote=inversion;57590]</p>\n<p>My first Kaggle competition (Merck) cost me a lot of money. After coming in 214 out of 236, I said screw that and threw down a big chunk of change on a workstation.</p>\n<p>[/quote]</p>\n<p>screw?! Are you a prisoner?! LOL</p>\n<p>What about dog_5, which is 2.6 GB?</p>\n<p>[quote=Steven Du;57589]</p>\n<p>You need around 150 GB+to play with this challenge.</p>\n<p>[/quote]</p>\n<p>But I open the extracted folder&nbsp; and&nbsp; see it is only 3.99 GB, when extracting Dog_5</p>\n<p>What can be the problem then?</p>",
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      "author_name": "inversion",
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      "post_date": "11/10/2014 17:55:47",
      "content": "<p>[quote=Soheil Hooshdaran;57619]</p>\n<p>What about dog_5, which is 2.6 GB?</p>\n<p>[/quote]</p>\n<p>I haven't had memory issues as long as I'm not careless. But if I need lots of in-memory processing, I use <a href=\"http://www.dominodatalab.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Domino</a>'s 240 Gb RAM instance.</p>\n<p>EDIT: This is my <a href=\"https://app.dominoup.com/referSignup?referrer=user-inversion\" target=\"_blank\">Domino referral link</a>, which gets me a bit of free compute time. The link above is a non-referral link.</p>",
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      "post_date": "11/10/2014 20:10:50",
      "content": "<p>I am freeing a few more MB's!</p>\n<p>But I&nbsp; can never reach the 150+ GB limit (have only 138 GB's under my Windows OS)</p>\n<p>And Domino is proprietory. You are wealthy.</p>",
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      "author_name": "inversion",
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      "post_date": "11/10/2014 20:14:05",
      "content": "<p>[quote=Soheil Hooshdaran;57664]</p>\n<p>And Domino is proprietory. You are wealthy.</p>\n<p>[/quote]</p>\n<p>Not after a long Domino run . . . &nbsp; &nbsp;:-)</p>",
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      "post_date": "11/10/2014 20:26:44",
      "content": "<p>[quote=inversion;57666]</p>\n<p>Not after a long Domino run . . . &nbsp; &nbsp;:-)</p>\n<p>[/quote]</p>\n\n<p>What do you mean?</p>",
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      "post_date": "11/10/2014 20:28:05",
      "content": "<p>[quote=Soheil Hooshdaran;57670]</p>\n<p>[quote=inversion;57666]</p>\n<p>Not after a long Domino run . . . &nbsp; &nbsp;:-)</p>\n<p>[/quote]</p>\n<p>What do you mean?</p>\n<p>[/quote]</p>\n<p>Meaning my credit card gets a bill for the minutes I've used. (Even though it's overall cheaper than getting a larger system, it still hurts to pay as you go.)</p>",
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      "post_date": "11/10/2014 20:49:41",
      "content": "<p>[quote=inversion;57671]</p>\n<p>[quote=Soheil Hooshdaran;57670]</p>\n<p>[quote=inversion;57666]</p>\n<p>Meaning my credit card gets a bill for the minutes I've used. (Even though it's overall cheaper than getting a larger system, it still hurts to pay as you go.)</p>\n<p>[/quote]</p>\n\n<p>I didn't get how Domino can spare you buying new hardware</p>",
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      "author_name": "inversion",
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      "post_date": "11/10/2014 21:41:54",
      "content": "<p>[quote=Soheil Hooshdaran;57673]</p>\n<p>I didn't get how Domino can spare you buying new hardware</p>\n<p>[/quote]</p>\n<p>Domino is an easy way to run your code on Amazon's computers.</p>",
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