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Introduction to Data Acquisition (DAQ)

The simplest way to store data is to record it on paper with either a strip-chart recorder or an x-y plotter. For greater utility, most modern analytical instruments digitize data in digital format for subsequent data storage, analysis, and presentation. For some types of instruments, such as Fourier-transform-based spectrometers, digitized data is necessary for the data manipulation to extract the spectrum from the raw data.
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