In order to keep the filesizes small to avoid issue when analysis the smallData files, we try to extract the important information gleaned from areaDetectors at an event-by-event basis and only save these pieces of data. 

Comments on the masks for area detectors

Each area detector defined in the smalldata_tools has the following masks defined:

• self.statusMask = self.det.mask(self.run, status=True)
• self.mask = self.det.mask(self.run, unbond=True, unbondnbrs=True, status=True,  edges=True, central=True)

• self.cmask = self.det.mask(self.run, unbond=True, unbondnbrs=True, status=True,  edges=True, central=True,calib=True)

Typical forms of userData

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