The Ruby script convert.rb takes data from a certain format which will go hitherto unmentioned and converts it into a more familiar X-Y coordinate dump for doing spectral particulate analysis or something along those lines which I won't pretend to understand. This script is so simple that it begs the question why a README is even necessary. The answer to that question is as simple as the script: I wanted an excuse to try out Textmate's Markdown bundle. So shut your god damn mouth.
The unconverted data format looks like this:
<channel-name><whitespace>+<integer><whitespace>+<integer><whitespace>+<integer><whitespace>+<integer><whitespace>+<integer>
A sample:
1 0 9 38238 666 42
6 333 444 555 666 2
The above unconverted example would then look like this:
1 0
2 9
3 38238
4 666
5 42
6 333
7 444
8 555
9 666
10 2
with a typical dataset containing a total of 8000 channels. A full sample dataset is provided as sample.dat as well as the node.js script (samplegen.js) for generating it.