plotting 2gb worth of data

Hi! I have 2gb csv file that I would like to plot (2 columns and around 100,000,000 rows). I read that tall is used for big arrays so I did the following:

 s0 = tall(readmatrix('C:\Users\maram\Desktop\test6\RigolDS4.csv'));
 x0 = s0(:, 1);
 y0 = s0(:, 2);
 plot(x0, y0);

I am getting the following error: out of memory, Error in line 1.

I thought of splitting the file, but I couldn't find a software that can open it. FYI, I have 12gb of ram. I would truly appreciate some help. Thanks!

Answer 1

[Kelly Kearney]

You're trying to show about 10x more data than could possibly be visualized, even on a 4K monitor. Even if you didn't run out of memory, that would be a waste of resources.

The quick and easy solution is to only plot a small subset of the data at once.

plot(x0(1:1000:end),y0(1:1000,end));

Alternatively, if you want to preserve the ability to zoom in on the details while not plotting excessive amounts when zoomed out, there are a few options on the FEX (I like this one) that automatically perform the smart reductions calculations for you. I haven't tried them out with tall arrays, though...

[Kelly Kearney]

Although now that I look more closely at your error line number, I don't think you're even getting to the plotting point... the out of memory error comes because of how you're reading in the data. Right now, you're reading the data in in its entirety, then trying to convert it to a tall array. Perhaps try:

s0 = tall(datastore('C:\Users\maram\Desktop\test6\RigolDS4.csv'));

[Maram Alnahhas]

Thanks for the reply. I ran the line you have suggested, but it is still giving me the same error :(