File size limitations

Standard Polymer licenses support up to 200mb files and have a 400 column limit. If you need support for larger files, an Enterprise license may be more appropriate. Please contact us to learn more!

General data structure

Polymer works best with structured data, meaning data in organized rows & columns. This format typically works well to analyze data since you can easily select which category of information you’d like to work with & filter to specific results.

This is how structured, tabular data may look in your spreadsheet:

Use case specific guidance

Best practices for structuring data can depends on what insights are needed & how they need to be visualized. Here are some patterns we’ve observed from working with our users:

Survey Data

The formatting of survey data can get a bit tricky when trying to discover patterns or insights. There are two main ways this data can be structured and it will depend a bit on what the answers to your questions look like.

• If the survey answers are all of the same type, then you will likely want to have one question column and one answer column along with any other columns that represents demographic or identifying information.
• If the survey answers are all of different types, then you will likely want to have one column per question with the answers in the subsequent rows.