[Babase] follow up on yesterday's conference call
Susan Alberts
alberts at duke.edu
Fri Mar 26 11:55:25 EDT 2010
OK thanks on all counts.
S
On Mar 26, 2010, at 11:53 AM, Niki Learn wrote:
> I kept thinking about it on the way home. I am creating two
> different new
> versions of demog notes for your examination. I am using Viola's
> 2009 data
> as an example. Included will be a possible format for the index
> files,
> filled in with Viola's 2009 data.
>
> On BIL to AMO, I think getting him linked to the correct pid should
> be the
> only sticky part. It might even require removal of certain checks
> temporarily while we delete the pid from BIL and add it to AMO. I'm
> thinking it probably can't be done with them all in place.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: babase-bounces at eeblistserv.Princeton.EDU
> [mailto:babase-bounces at eeblistserv.Princeton.EDU] On Behalf Of Susan
> Alberts
> Sent: Friday, March 26, 2010 10:24 AM
> To: The Baboon Database Project
> Subject: [Babase] follow up on yesterday's conference call
>
> Hi all,
>
> Lacey and I are having a meeting and she raised the fact that she,
> like Niki and Catherine, has often felt the need to pull data out of
> the "demography notes" section of the field data the first time she
> goes through them (thinking to herself, oh yes someone is going to
> need this) and so we both really want to thank Niki and Catherine for
> raising this. It will really help the problem of reinventing the
> wheel, and we both feel that it is a very good use of time over all to
> pull the data out the first time in some way.
>
> I also realized that I am not totally sure how we are going to go
> forward. I think what we agreed is that Niki will, for a few years
> worth of data, pull out all the potential incidents that would be
> indexed (in an excel file?) and then we revisit (in a month? a couple
> of weeks?) and start categorizing and prioritizing these data types
> into "missed data in existing categories", "potentially useful
> information some day but we don't yet know how we would use it", and
> finally "probably don't bother entering."
>
> is that about right?
>
> Thanks again,
>
> Susan
>
>
>
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