Usage examples are minimal / missing

[Ichoran]

There are very few examples of using the WCON reader/writers to do anything. Every language should have a few examples. Better yet, every language should have the same examples.

Some ideas for small examples on a real data set:

• Read a data set, select IDs that last for at least 60s, write it again (with updated software information)
• Calculate the median length of each worm and report the 5th and 95th percentiles of those medians
• Find the fastest speed (over 1s) of any animal
• Report how many spines flip direction (head/tail)
• Produce a count of the number of worms at each second in the recording
• Generate a fake data set of a sinusoidal "worm" wiggling in place for 10s

I don't think we need all of these, but something that shows basic data extraction and writing would be valuable.

[cheelee]

I think those are great examples. And if we have the owat visualizers ready to use WCON data, that last example will be very nice. I'll go ahead and adopt a subset of those example ideas for Octave, C, and C++ once they are ready. C++ will probably be the lowest-hanging fruit.

[Ichoran]

Closing this in favor of a more extensive yet less ambitious set of possible examples in #141 (which adhere more strictly to just what WCON encodes and requires less non-WCON coding to produce a result).