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most citedTOPCAT: Desktop Exploration of Tabular Data for Astronomy and Beyond

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astro-ph.IM2026

Combining data and metadata: hybrid tabular file formats

Mark Taylor

When working with astronomical data, metadata is also important. A general-purpose file format for transmission, processing and archiving large datasets should facilitate, among ot…

astro-ph.IM2026

STILTS-NLI: A Natural Language Interface for STILTS

R. A. Shaw, S. Fotopoulou, M. Taylor +1

The Starlink Tables Infrastructure Library Tool Set (STILTS) is a powerful suite for astronomical data analysis, particularly useful when dealing with large datasets. However, like…

astro-ph.IM2022

Improving Performance in Java: TOPCAT and STILTS

Mark Taylor

TOPCAT and STILTS are mature Java desktop applications for working with tabular data that have always had a focus on efficiency for large or very large data sets. This paper presen…

astro-ph.IM2018

TOPCAT and Gaia

Mark Taylor

TOPCAT, and its command line counterpart STILTS, are powerful tools for working with large source catalogues. ESA's Gaia mission, most recently with its second data release, is pro…

astro-ph.IM2017★ 5 cited

TOPCAT: Working with Data and Working with Users

Mark Taylor

TOPCAT is a desktop application for interactive analysis of tabular data, especially source catalogues. Along with its command-line counterpart STILTS, it has been under more or le…

astro-ph.IM2017★ 14 cited

TOPCAT: Desktop Exploration of Tabular Data for Astronomy and Beyond

Mark Taylor

TOPCAT, the Tool for OPerations on Catalogues And Tables, is an interactive desktop application for retrieval, analysis and manipulation of tabular data, offering a powerful and fl…