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  • Getting Started
  • Tutorials
    • 1. Catalogs
      • The Catalog Object
      • Lazy Operations in LSDB
      • Column filtering (e.g. columns=)
      • Region selection filtering (e.g. search_filter)
      • Row filtering (e.g. .query)
      • Single row selection
      • Custom Structured Search
    • 2. Analyzing Catalogs
      • Setting up a Dask Client
      • Margins
      • Crossmatching catalogs
      • Applying a function (e.g. map_partitions)
      • Working with TimeSeries
      • Plotting results
      • Exporting results (e.g. write_catalog)
    • 3. Nested data manipulation
      • NestedFrame
      • Exploding Lightcurves to flat Source Tables
    • 4. HATS creation and reading
      • Import catalogs
      • Manual catalog verification
    • 5. Performance Tips
      • Index tables
      • Dask cluster configuration
      • Performance testing
      • Joining catalogs
      • Scaling Workflows
    • 6. Working with Rubin Data
      • Accessing Rubin Data Preview 1
      • Intro to Rubin Catalog Operations
      • Accessing Rubin Data Preview 1 photo-z
      • Cross-matching with Variable Star Index catalog
      • Visualizing Periodic Lightcurves
    • 7. Science Examples
      • Cross-match ZTF BTS and NGC
      • Import and cross-match DES and Gaia
      • Get a list of light-curves from ZTF and PS1
      • Cross-match Rubin DP1 and Gaia DR3 with epoch propagation
      • Search for Supernovae in ZTF alerts
    • 8. Debugging
      • Dask Messages Guide
  • Data Access
    • 1. data.lsdb.io
    • 2. External Data Centers
    • 3. HATS catalogs on Hugging Face
    • 4. Finding HATS Catalogs with VO
    • 5. HATS Catalog Structure
    • 6. Access with http/cloud
    • 7. Access with TAP
    • 8. Server-side filtering
  • API Reference
    • Catalog
      • Catalog Types
        • Catalog
        • MarginCatalog
        • MapCatalog
      • Properties
        • hc_structure
        • dtypes
        • columns
        • nested_columns
        • all_columns
        • original_schema
        • margin
      • Inspection Methods
        • get_healpix_pixels
        • get_ordered_healpix_pixels
        • aggregate_column_statistics
        • per_pixel_statistics
        • estimate_size
        • partitions
        • npartitions
        • plot_pixels
        • plot_coverage
        • plot_points
        • __len__
      • Structured Search
        • ConeSearch
        • BoxSearch
        • PolygonSearch
        • OrderSearch
        • PixelSearch
        • MOCSearch
        • IndexSearch
        • cone_search
        • box_search
        • polygon_search
        • id_search
        • order_search
        • pixel_search
        • moc_search
        • search
      • Filtering Methods
        • iloc
        • loc
        • query
        • rename
        • head
        • tail
        • sample
        • random_sample
        • __getitem__
      • Dataframe Methods
        • map_rows
        • map_partitions
        • write_catalog
        • compute
        • to_delayed
        • get_partition
        • get_partition_index
        • prune_empty_partitions
        • to_dask_dataframe
      • Inter-catalog Methods
        • crossmatch
        • crossmatch_nested
        • concat
        • merge_map
        • merge
        • merge_asof
        • join
        • join_nested
        • nest_lists
      • Catalog Streaming
        • CatalogStream
        • InfiniteStream
    • IO
      • open_catalog
      • show_versions
      • from_dataframe
      • from_astropy
      • generate_catalog
      • to_hats
      • to_collection
      • to_association

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Nested data manipulation

3. Nested data manipulation#

  • NestedFrame
  • Exploding Lightcurves to flat Source Tables

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