Data Segment

A data segment is a set of one or more contiguous data points in a single data column. Three properties define a data segment:

the start time
the end time
the data column

If we represented a dataset as a table of data, with one row for each time step and one column for each data column, then a data segment would correspond to one or more cells in one column of that table. The example below highlights a data segment comprised of six data points:

Start Time	Speed 75m	Direction 72m
Start Time	(m/s)	(°)
2021-02-12 05:40	8.10	287
2021-02-12 05:50	8.14	268
2021-02-12 06:00	7.53	250
2021-02-12 06:10	7.45	236
2021-02-12 06:20	6.49	232
2021-02-12 06:30	5.43	225
2021-02-12 06:40	4.81	222
2021-02-12 06:50	4.57	225
2021-02-12 07:00	4.84	223
2021-02-12 07:10	4.65	219
2021-02-12 07:20	4.65	218
2021-02-12 07:30	4.98	217
2021-02-12 07:40	5.24	227
2021-02-12 07:50	5.62	264