The air quality data related to individual VOCs or biocontaminants can come in either long or wide format, depending on the lab performing analysis. It will be a great relief for the contributors if we can accept both formats. Here are two examples.
Typical long format looks like this:
Every individual pollutant takes a row, with name and concentration in separate columns. Sometimes there can be an additional column of CAS number and another column of concentration in a different unit.
Typical wide format looks like this:
Every individual pollutant takes a column, with unit stored in a separate column. If CAS number is also available, it will be in the header (e.g., the 2nd row following pollutant name).
The air quality data related to individual VOCs or biocontaminants can come in either long or wide format, depending on the lab performing analysis. It will be a great relief for the contributors if we can accept both formats. Here are two examples.
Typical long format looks like this: Every individual pollutant takes a row, with name and concentration in separate columns. Sometimes there can be an additional column of CAS number and another column of concentration in a different unit.
Typical wide format looks like this: Every individual pollutant takes a column, with unit stored in a separate column. If CAS number is also available, it will be in the header (e.g., the 2nd row following pollutant name).