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| Data Explorer File | This choice is for when you already have data stored in Data Explorer format, for example if you are using a filter which converts from another format to Data Explorer format. | 
| CDF Format | This is a standard data format which Data Explorer imports directly. An application programming interface can be obtained from the National Space Science Data Center, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. | 
| netCDF Format | This is a standard data format which Data Explorer imports directly. An application programming interface for netCDF can be obtained from the Unidata Program Center in Boulder, Colorado. | 
| HDF Format | This is a standard data format which Data Explorer imports directly. HDF was created at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications. | 
| Image File | Data Explorer directly imports TIFF, MIFF, GIF, and RGB format images. | 
| Grid or Scattered File | This option allows you to specify a general array header which can describe a wide variety of formats of data. Data can be on a regular grid, a warped grid with positions explicitly specified, or scattered. The general array format can skip header lines and embedded descriptive text. Data can be multidimensional, multivariable, and series (see 5.1 , "General Array Importer"). | 
| Spreadsheet Format file | This option is typically used for non-spatial data, for example the output of a spreadsheet program which might look like: 
      Customer       Sales        Profit
      company_a       1.2           938
      company_b       8.9          1037
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See ImportSpreadsheet in IBM
Visualization Data Explorer User's Reference. | 
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