CSV Converter



Download pdb reader here or here and then install and run it. Open your file. PDB stands for "palm data base".



Navigate to your directory, choose the file for conversion and then open it.



Take the default values and click "Continue".



The contents of the PDB file is shown. You don't need to read through this information.



Click Dump Records to make a CSV file.



Give the file a name (TheData.csv for this example).



Open the CSV converter. If you haven't downloaded and installed it, you can find it here. Double-click on your file(s) and a data file for input into TimeLine is created.



Open TimeLine. You can download it here. Double-click on your data file.



This is the analysis. The behavior list, sequence, transition, and matrix can be copied to the clipboard. Do these one at a time, then paste the contents of the clipboard into Excel or Word, then get the next set of data. You can use the pasted data to do analyses, make graphs, or transfer the data to a statistics program.



Click the "Draw" button to draw the timeline...