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AlphaTwirl is a python library that summarizes event data into
multivariate categorical data as data frames. Event data, input to
AlphaTwirl, are data with one entry (or row) for one event: for
example, data in ROOT
TTrees with one
entry per collision event of an
LHC experiment at
CERN. Event data are often large—too large
to be loaded in memory—because they have as many entries as
events. Multivariate categorical data, the output of AlphaTwirl, have
one row for one category. They are usually small—small enough to
be loaded in memory—because they only have as many rows as
categories. Users can, for example, import them as data frames into
R and
pandas, which usually load all data in
memory, and can perform categorical data analyses with a rich set of
data operations available in R and pandas.