All pages
Powered by GitBook
1 of 8

Conversion

Convert Area

Description

This operation converts values from one unit of measurement to another, such as square feet, acres, square meters, and even smaller or less common units used in physics (like barns or nanobarns).

Data types

These are the input/output expected data types for this operation:

Input data

Output data

Parameters

These are the parameters you need to configure to use this operation (mandatory parameters are marked with a *):

Input units*

Enter the unit of measurement of your input data. You must indicate one of the following:

Metric

  • Square metre (sq m)

  • Square kilometre (sq km)

  • Centiare (ca)

  • Deciare (da)

  • Are (a)

  • Decare (daa)

  • Hectare (ha)

Imperial

  • Square inch (sq in)

  • Square foot (sq ft)

  • Square yard (sq yd)

  • Square mile (sq mi)

  • Perch (sq per)

  • Rood (ro)

  • International acre (ac)

US customary units

  • US survey acre (ac)

  • US survey square mile (sq mi)

  • US survey township

Nuclear physics

  • Yoctobarn (yb)

  • Zeptobarn (zb)

  • Attobarn (ab)

  • Femtobarn (fb)

  • Picobarn (pb)

  • Nanobarn (nb)

  • Microbarn (μb)

  • Millibarn (mb)

  • Barn (b)

  • Kilobarn (kb)

  • Megabarn (Mb)

  • Outhouse

  • Shed

  • Planck area

Comparisons

  • Washington D.C.

  • Isle of Wight

  • Wales

  • Texas

Output units*

Enter the required unit of measurement of your output data. You must indicate one of the following:

Metric

  • Square metre (sq m)

  • Square kilometre (sq km)

  • Centiare (ca)

  • Deciare (da)

  • Are (a)

  • Decare (daa)

  • Hectare (ha)

Imperial

  • Square inch (sq in)

  • Square foot (sq ft)

  • Square yard (sq yd)

  • Square mile (sq mi)

  • Perch (sq per)

  • Rood (ro)

  • International acre (ac)

US customary units

  • US survey acre (ac)

  • US survey square mile (sq mi)

  • US survey township

Nuclear physics

  • Yoctobarn (yb)

  • Zeptobarn (zb)

  • Attobarn (ab)

  • Femtobarn (fb)

  • Picobarn (pb)

  • Nanobarn (nb)

  • Microbarn (μb)

  • Millibarn (mb)

  • Barn (b)

  • Kilobarn (kb)

  • Megabarn (Mb)

  • Outhouse

  • Shed

  • Planck area

Comparisons

  • Washington D.C.

  • Isle of Wight

  • Wales

  • Texas

Example

Suppose you want to convert a series of events from square feet into square meters:

  2. In the Operation field, choose Convert area.

  3. Set Input units to Square foot (sq ft).

  4. Set Output units to Square metre (sq m).

  5. Give your Output field a name and click Save. The values in your input field will be transformed. For example:

5000 Square foot (sq ft) -> 464.5152 Square metre (sq m)

You can try out operations with specific values using the Input field above the operation. You can enter the value in the example above and check the result in the Output field.

Convert Data Units

Description

This operation converts values between different units of digital data, such as bits, bytes, kilobytes, megabytes, and so on. It’s especially useful when you’re dealing with data storage or transfer rates and you need to switch between binary (base 2) and decimal (base 10) units.

Data types

These are the input/output expected data types for this operation:

Input data

Output data

Parameters

These are the parameters you need to configure to use this operation (mandatory parameters are marked with a *):

Input units*

Enter the unit of your input data. You must indicate one of the following:

  • Bits (b)

  • Nibbles

  • Octets

  • Bytes (B)

Binary bits (2^n)

  • Kibibits (Kib)

  • Mebibits (Mib)

  • Gibibits (Gib)

  • Tebibits (Tib)

  • Pebibits (Pib)

  • Exbibits (Eib)

  • Zebibits (Zib)

  • Yobibits (Yib)

Decimal bits (10^n)

  • Decabits

  • Hectobits

  • Kilobits (Kb)

  • Megabits (Mb)

  • Gigabits (Gb)

  • Terabits (Tb)

  • Petabits (Pb)

  • Exabits (Eb)

  • Zettabits (Zb)

  • Yottabits (Yb)

Binary bytes (8 x 2^n)

  • Kibibytes (KiB)

  • Mebibytes (MiB)

  • Gibibytes (GiB)

  • Tebibytes (TiB)

  • Pebibytes (PiB)

  • Exbibytes (EiB)

  • Zebibytes (ZiB)

  • Yobibytes (YiB)

Decimal bytes (8 x 10^n)

  • Kilobytes (KB)

  • Megabytes (MB)

  • Gigabytes (GB)

  • Terabytes (TB)

  • Petabytes (PB)

  • Exabytes (EB)

  • Zettabytes (ZB)

  • Yottabytes (YB)

Output units*

Enter the required unit of your output data. You must indicate one of the following:

  • Bits (b)

  • Nibbles

  • Octets

  • Bytes (B)

Binary bits (2^n)

  • Kibibits (Kib)

  • Mebibits (Mib)

  • Gibibits (Gib)

  • Tebibits (Tib)

  • Pebibits (Pib)

  • Exbibits (Eib)

  • Zebibits (Zib)

  • Yobibits (Yib)

Decimal bits (10^n)

  • Decabits

  • Hectobits

  • Kilobits (Kb)

  • Megabits (Mb)

  • Gigabits (Gb)

  • Terabits (Tb)

  • Petabits (Pb)

  • Exabits (Eb)

  • Zettabits (Zb)

  • Yottabits (Yb)

Binary bytes (8 x 2^n)

  • Kibibytes (KiB)

  • Mebibytes (MiB)

  • Gibibytes (GiB)

  • Tebibytes (TiB)

  • Pebibytes (PiB)

  • Exbibytes (EiB)

  • Zebibytes (ZiB)

  • Yobibytes (YiB)

Decimal bytes (8 x 10^n)

  • Kilobytes (KB)

  • Megabytes (MB)

  • Gigabytes (GB)

  • Terabytes (TB)

  • Petabytes (PB)

  • Exabytes (EB)

  • Zettabytes (ZB)

  • Yottabytes (YB)

Example

Suppose you want to convert a series of events from megabits into kilobytes:

  2. In the Operation field, choose Convert data units.

  3. Set Input units to Megabits (Mb).

  4. Set Output units to Kilobytes (KB).

  5. Give your Output field a name and click Save. The data type of the values in your input field will be transformed. For example:

2 Megabits (Mb) -> 250 Kilobytes (KB)

You can try out operations with specific values using the Input field above the operation. You can enter the value in the example above and check the result in the Output field.

Convert Distance

Description

This operation converts values between different units of length or distance.

Data types

These are the input/output expected data types for this operation:

Input data

Output data

Parameters

These are the parameters you need to configure to use this operation (mandatory parameters are marked with a *):

Input units*

Enter the unit of length of your input data. You must indicate one of the following:

Metric

  • Nanometres (nm)

  • Micrometres (μm)

  • Millimetres (mm)

  • Centimetres (cm)

  • Metres (m)

  • Kilometres (km)

Imperial

  • Thou (th)

  • Inches (in)

  • Feet (ft)

  • Yards (yd)

  • Chains (ch)

  • Furlongs (fur)

  • Miles (mi)

  • Leagues (lea)

Maritime

  • Fathoms (ftm)

  • Cables

  • Nautical miles

Comparisons

  • Cars (4m)

  • Buses (8.4m)

  • American football fields (91m)

  • Football pitches (105m)

Astronomical

  • Earth-to-Moons

  • Earth's equators

  • Astronomical units (au)

  • Light-years (ly)

  • Parsecs (pc)

Output units*

Enter the required unit of length of your output data. You must indicate one of the following:

Metric

  • Nanometres (nm)

  • Micrometres (μm)

  • Millimetres (mm)

  • Centimetres (cm)

  • Metres (m)

  • Kilometres (km)

Imperial

  • Thou (th)

  • Inches (in)

  • Feet (ft)

  • Yards (yd)

  • Chains (ch)

  • Furlongs (fur)

  • Miles (mi)

  • Leagues (lea)

Maritime

  • Fathoms (ftm)

  • Cables

  • Nautical miles

Comparisons

  • Cars (4m)

  • Buses (8.4m)

  • American football fields (91m)

  • Football pitches (105m)

Astronomical

  • Earth-to-Moons

  • Earth's equators

  • Astronomical units (au)

  • Light-years (ly)

  • Parsecs (pc)

Example

Suppose you want to convert a series of events from meters into yards:

  2. In the Operation field, choose Convert distance.

  3. Set Input units to Metres (m).

  4. Set Output units to Yards (yd).

  5. Give your Output field a name and click Save. The unit of length of the values in your input field will be transformed. For example:

100 Metres (m) -> 109.3613298 Yards (yd)

You can try out operations with specific values using the Input field above the operation. You can enter the value in the example above and check the result in the Output field.

Convert Mass

Description

This operation converts values between different units of mass.

Data types

These are the input/output expected data types for this operation:

Input data

Output data

Parameters

These are the parameters you need to configure to use this operation (mandatory parameters are marked with a *):

Input units*

Enter the unit of mass of your input data. You must indicate one of the following:

Metric

  • Yoctogram (yg)

  • Zeptogram (zg)

  • Attogram (ag)

  • Femtogram (fg)

  • Picogram (pg)

  • Nanogram (ng)

  • Microgram (μg)

  • Milligram (mg)

  • Centigram (cg)

  • Decigram (dg)

  • Gram (g)

  • Decagram (dag)

  • Hectogram (hg)

  • Kilogram (kg)

  • Megagram (Mg)

  • Tonne (t)

  • Gigagram (Gg)

  • Teragram (Tg)

  • Petagram (Pg)

  • Exagram (Eg)

  • Zettagram (Zg)

  • Yottagram (Yg)

Imperial Avoirdupois

  • Grain (gr)

  • Dram (dr)

  • Ounce (oz)

  • Pound (lb)

  • Nail

  • Stone (st)

  • Quarter (qr)

  • Tod

  • US hundredweight (cwt)

  • Imperial hundredweight (cwt)

  • US ton (t)

  • Imperial ton (t)

Imperial Troy

  • Grain (gr)

  • Pennyweight (dwt)

  • Troy dram (dr t)

  • Troy ounce (oz t)

  • Troy pound (lb t)

  • Mark

Archaic

  • Wey

  • Wool wey

  • Suffolk wey

  • Wool sack

  • Coal sack

  • Load

  • Last

  • Flax or feather last

  • Gunpowder last

  • Picul

  • Rice last

Comparisons

  • Big Ben (14 tonnes)

  • Blue whale (180 tonnes)

  • International Space Station (417 tonnes)

  • Space Shuttle (2,041 tonnes)

  • RMS Titanic (52,000 tonnes)

  • Great Pyramid of Giza (6,000,000 tonnes)

  • Earth's oceans (1.4 yottagrams)

Astronomical

  • A teaspoon of neutron star (5,500 million tonnes)

  • Lunar mass (ML)

  • Earth mass (M⊕)

  • Jupiter mass (MJ)

  • Solar mass (M☉)

  • Sagittarius A* (7.5 x 10^36 kgs-ish)

  • Milky Way galaxy (1.2 x 10^42 kgs)

  • The observable universe (1.45 x 10^53 kgs)

Output units*

Enter the required unit of mass of your output data. You must indicate one of the following:

Metric

  • Yoctogram (yg)

  • Zeptogram (zg)

  • Attogram (ag)

  • Femtogram (fg)

  • Picogram (pg)

  • Nanogram (ng)

  • Microgram (μg)

  • Milligram (mg)

  • Centigram (cg)

  • Decigram (dg)

  • Gram (g)

  • Decagram (dag)

  • Hectogram (hg)

  • Kilogram (kg)

  • Megagram (Mg)

  • Tonne (t)

  • Gigagram (Gg)

  • Teragram (Tg)

  • Petagram (Pg)

  • Exagram (Eg)

  • Zettagram (Zg)

  • Yottagram (Yg)

Imperial Avoirdupois

  • Grain (gr)

  • Dram (dr)

  • Ounce (oz)

  • Pound (lb)

  • Nail

  • Stone (st)

  • Quarter (qr)

  • Tod

  • US hundredweight (cwt)

  • Imperial hundredweight (cwt)

  • US ton (t)

  • Imperial ton (t)

Imperial Troy

  • Grain (gr)

  • Pennyweight (dwt)

  • Troy dram (dr t)

  • Troy ounce (oz t)

  • Troy pound (lb t)

  • Mark

Archaic

  • Wey

  • Wool wey

  • Suffolk wey

  • Wool sack

  • Coal sack

  • Load

  • Last

  • Flax or feather last

  • Gunpowder last

  • Picul

  • Rice last

Comparisons

  • Big Ben (14 tonnes)

  • Blue whale (180 tonnes)

  • International Space Station (417 tonnes)

  • Space Shuttle (2,041 tonnes)

  • RMS Titanic (52,000 tonnes)

  • Great Pyramid of Giza (6,000,000 tonnes)

  • Earth's oceans (1.4 yottagrams)

Astronomical

  • A teaspoon of neutron star (5,500 million tonnes)

  • Lunar mass (ML)

  • Earth mass (M⊕)

  • Jupiter mass (MJ)

  • Solar mass (M☉)

  • Sagittarius A* (7.5 x 10^36 kgs-ish)

  • Milky Way galaxy (1.2 x 10^42 kgs)

  • The observable universe (1.45 x 10^53 kgs)

Example

Suppose you want to convert a series of events from kilograms into pounds:

  2. In the Operation field, choose Convert mass.

  3. Set Input units to Kilogram (kg).

  4. Set Output units to Pound (lb).

  5. Give your Output field a name and click Save. The unit of mass of the values in your input field will be transformed. For example:

100 Kilogram (kg) -> 220.4622622 Pound (lb)

You can try out operations with specific values using the Input field above the operation. You can enter the value in the example above and check the result in the Output field.

Convert Speed

Description

This operation converts values between different units of speed.

Data types

These are the input/output expected data types for this operation:

Input data

Output data

Parameters

These are the parameters you need to configure to use this operation (mandatory parameters are marked with a *):

Input units*

Enter the unit of speed of your input data. You must indicate one of the following:

Metric

  • Metres per second (m/s)

  • Kilometres per hour (km/h)

Imperial

  • Miles per hour (mph)

  • Knots (kn)

Comparisons

  • Human hair growth rate

  • Bamboo growth rate

  • World's fastest snail

  • Usain Bolt's top speed

  • Jet airliner cruising speed

  • Concorde

  • SR-71 Blackbird

  • Space Shuttle

  • International Space Station

Scientific

  • Sound in standard atmosphere

  • Sound in water

  • Lunar escape velocity

  • Earth escape velocity

  • Earth's solar orbit

  • Solar system's Milky Way orbit

  • Milky Way relative to the cosmic microwave background

  • Solar escape velocity

  • Neutron star escape velocity (0.3c)

  • Light in a diamond (0.4136c)

  • Signal in an optical fibre (0.667c)

  • Light (c)

Output units*

Enter the required unit of speed of your output data. You must indicate one of the following:

Metric

  • Metres per second (m/s)

  • Kilometres per hour (km/h)

Imperial

  • Miles per hour (mph)

  • Knots (kn)

Comparisons

  • Human hair growth rate

  • Bamboo growth rate

  • World's fastest snail

  • Usain Bolt's top speed

  • Jet airliner cruising speed

  • Concorde

  • SR-71 Blackbird

  • Space Shuttle

  • International Space Station

Scientific

  • Sound in standard atmosphere

  • Sound in water

  • Lunar escape velocity

  • Earth escape velocity

  • Earth's solar orbit

  • Solar system's Milky Way orbit

  • Milky Way relative to the cosmic microwave background

  • Solar escape velocity

  • Neutron star escape velocity (0.3c)

  • Light in a diamond (0.4136c)

  • Signal in an optical fibre (0.667c)

  • Light (c)

Example

Suppose you want to convert a series of events from kilometers per hour into miles per hour:

  2. In the Operation field, choose Convert speed.

  3. Set Input units to Kilometres per hour (km/h).

  4. Set Output units to Miles per hour (mph).

  5. Give your Output field a name and click Save. The unit of speed of the values in your input field will be transformed. For example:

200 Kilometres per hour (km/h) -> 124.2841804 Miles per hour (mph)

You can try out operations with specific values using the Input field above the operation. You can enter the value in the example above and check the result in the Output field.

List to String

Description

This operation converts a list of comma-separated values (data type listString) into a string of values divided by a specific separator.

Data types

These are the input/output expected data types for this operation:

Input data

Output data

Parameters

These are the parameters you need to configure to use this operation (mandatory parameters are marked with a *):

Separator*

Enter the character(s) you want to use to divide the values in the input string lists.

Example

Suppose you want to convert a series of lists of comma-separated values into a single string representing those values separated by /:

  1. In your Pipeline, open the required Action configuration and select the input Field.

  2. In the Operation field, choose List to string.

  3. Set Separator to /.

  4. Give your Output field a name and click Save. The values in your input field will be transformed into a string with its values separated by the given character. For example:

hello,my,world -> hello/my/world

You can try out operations with specific values using the Input field above the operation. You can enter the value in the example above and check the result in the Output field.

String to List

Description

This operation converts a string composed of values separated by a specific separator into a list of comma-separated values (data type listString).

Data types

These are the input/output expected data types for this operation:

Input data

Output data

Parameters

These are the parameters you need to configure to use this operation (mandatory parameters are marked with a *):

Separator*

Enter the character(s) that separate the values in the input strings.

Example

Suppose you want to convert a series of strings representing values separated by / into a list of comma-separated values:

  1. In your Pipeline, open the required Action configuration and select the input Field.

  2. In the Operation field, choose String to list.

  3. Set Separator to /.

  4. Give your Output field a name and click Save. The values in your input field will be transformed into a comma-separated list. For example:

hello/my/world -> hello,my,world

You can try out operations with specific values using the Input field above the operation. You can enter the value in the example above and check the result in the Output field.