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#!CSlateBlue #!N  #!Rimd Importing 
Data: File Formats #!N #!EC #!N #!N Importing your data into 
Data Explorer will be the first step in creating a visualization 
of that data. In order to take this step you should 
have some understanding of the Data Explorer data model and a 
working knowledge of a Field. An informal description of a Field 
is provided in  #!Lvis,dxall188 h Introduction to Visualization  #!EL  . A formal description is given in 
 #!Ldatmod,dxall197 h Understanding the Data Model  #!EL  . #!N #!N A number of methods for importing data 
are available for use with Data Explorer: the General Array Importer, 
Data Explorer native file format, netCDF, CDF, and HDF. #!N #!N 
#!N  #!F-adobe-times-medium-i-normal--18*   Next Topic #!EF #!N #!N  #!Lkwifdf,dxall619 h General Array Importer: Keyword Information from Data Files  #!EL  #!N  #!F-adobe-times-medium-i-normal--18*   #!N 

