The phrase "a usable format for" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the suitability of a particular format for a specific purpose or audience.
Example: "We need to convert the data into a usable format for our analysis team to interpret the results effectively."
Alternatives: "an accessible format for" or "a practical format for".
For the past few weeks, delegates and bloggers have received so many invitations that it was impossible to sort through them all, and no type of spreadsheet seemed to work to get them into a usable format for figuring out what to do.
By making data freely available in a usable format for civic-minded developers and technology platforms, government can exponentially scale its communications and service delivery," New York City's Chief Digital Officer, Rachel Haot, writes to TechCrunch in an email (hopefully from a safe place).
Once an image was selected by our criteria, we used ERDAS Imagine 9.2 software (Leica Geosystems, Inc., Atlanta, GA) to convert the image (from a TIFF file to an IMG file) to a usable format for GIS.
Thus, despite recent developments in methods to identify, observe, and collect phenomic data, the work of transforming these data into a usable format for evolutionary or ecological inference can still be extremely time-consuming and tedious.
In addition, even in the very best designed and conducted studies it is unusual to finish with a dataset in which complete data are available in a usable format for every subject.
AppFigures, for those unfamiliar, is a popular service for taking data from iTunes Connect, Google Play and other app stores, and putting it into a more usable format for developers.
> The BioMart technology allows for the download of sequence information in a usable format.
But if you want more, you can choose Canon's CCD-RAW format, download the uncompressed image data, and worry about converting it into a usable format later.
Our aim was to pull together a richer, global urban population database, and to get this data into a usable format so it can be tested and improved".
Currently, competitors go out and capture the data for construction companies, but then it'll take experts hundreds of hours to convert that data into a usable format, Morczinek said.
The merchant in turn gets data in a usable format about transactions in their store.
