A Python Package to Preprocess the Data Produced by Novonix High-Precision Battery-Testers

A Python Package to Preprocess the Data Produced by Novonix High-Precision Battery-Testers

V. Gonzalez-Perez, P. Keil, Y. Li, A. Zülke, R. Burrel, D. Csala, H. Hoster
Journal of Open Research Software 8: 3 (2020) https://doi.org/10.5334/jors.281

 

Abstract


We present preparenovonix, a Python package that handles common issues encountered in data files generated with a range of software versions from the Novonix battery-testers. This package can also add extra information that makes easier coulombic counting and relating a measurement to the experimental protocol. The package provides a master function that can run at once the cleaning and adding derived information, with flexibility to choose only some features. There is a separate function to simply read a column by its given name. The usage of all the functions is documented in the code including examples. The code presented here can be installed either as a python package or from a GitHub repository.

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