[Babase] Statdate problem for End June 2009

Lacey Roerish lroerish4 at gmail.com
Fri Oct 30 13:49:34 EDT 2009


There is consort data for June 30, which is why I am getting an error in
Linda's.

Thanks!
Lacey

On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 1:47 PM, Niki Learn <nlearn at princeton.edu> wrote:

>  Linda’s should be fine.  The last incomplete census was June 27 and the
> last team census was June 29….  I don’t see any agonism data for after that
> date.
>
>
>
> Getting ready to upload Weaver’s now.
>
>
>
> *From:* babase-bounces at eeblistserv.Princeton.EDU [mailto:
> babase-bounces at eeblistserv.Princeton.EDU] *On Behalf Of *Lacey Roerish
> *Sent:* Friday, October 30, 2009 1:13 PM
>
> *To:* The Baboon Database Project
> *Subject:* Re: [Babase] Statdate problem for End June 2009
>
>
>
> It looks like Weaver's and Linda's. Everyone elses data went in fine! :-D
>
> You probably should log in as admin when trying to create tables in
> pending.  As for the 'types' of data, You might look on the ppa website
> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/interactive/bookindex.html    I only
> use a couple of different types because I don't know what the rest of them
> mean.
> I mostly use character, char var, numeric, date, time without timezone as
> they are the only ones I understand :)
>
> Thanks again
> Lacey
>
> On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 1:02 PM, Niki Learn <nlearn at princeton.edu> wrote:
>
> No, it won’t take me long at all.  I can do it after lunch.  Is Weaver’s
> the only group affected?
>
>
>
> I got stuck trying to create wounds tables in pending anyway.  Do I need to
> log in as administrator to make those or something?  Getting weird errors.
> Also, is there a list somewhere of what all these options in the type column
> are???  I couldn’t find one and many are not self explanatory.
>
>
>
> *From:* babase-bounces at eeblistserv.Princeton.EDU [mailto:
> babase-bounces at eeblistserv.Princeton.EDU] *On Behalf Of *Lacey Roerish
> *Sent:* Friday, October 30, 2009 12:56 PM
>
>
> *To:* The Baboon Database Project
>
> *Subject:* Re: [Babase] Statdate problem for End June 2009
>
>
>
> Animals who would be included in her census would be the only animals
> affected by this anyway as Courtney won't know them to collect data on them.
> So as long as the statdates are updated for those animals who she would be
> collecting data on, everyone would be covered.
>
> This is likely to only occur on this update, and potentially 10B as I think
> Courtney will be back in kenya then.  So it wouldn't be a recurring problem.
>
> It would also mean just holding back one or two lines of data which can
> very easily get lost, unlike cycles, which are bigger events, which can't
> and won't be lost.
>
> It it looks like something that you just won't have time to do by Tues,
> does it make more sense for me to enter these few demog notes?
>
> Thanks
> Lacey
>
> On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 12:47 PM, Niki Learn <nlearn at princeton.edu> wrote:
>
> Hmm…  When we have any kind of cycling (example a cycle has begun in June
> or December but has not been completed by the last census day and so is left
> dangling) or reproductive data (example a birth estimated to be at the end
> of June but after the last census date) that occurs at the end of an update
> period we hold it over for the next update.
>
>
>
> I can see why we might not want to do that for agonisms in December
> (although you guys do male agonisms for the first half of the year
> separately?) since I guess we’d want them included in the 09b update in
> order to count them when doing the ranks.  Does it matter for June?  Will
> you do the 09a male agonisms before the 09b update?
>
>
>
> I *can* add a census column for 6/29 BUT the animals that Courtney did not
> census (mostly juveniles) would still not have a change in statdate since
> they would still get no census record for that day.  I guess for male ranks
> only the adult male interactions matter though so it would be okay if only
> the adults were marked through the 29th?
>
>
>
> Niki
>
>
>
> *From:* babase-bounces at eeblistserv.Princeton.EDU [mailto:
> babase-bounces at eeblistserv.Princeton.EDU] *On Behalf Of *Lacey Roerish
> *Sent:* Friday, October 30, 2009 12:34 PM
> *To:* The Baboon Database Project
> *Subject:* [Babase] Statdate problem for End June 2009
>
>
>
> Hi All!
>
>     I am working on the uploads of data and have found june to be a bit
> tricky.  Since Courtney is often in the field collecting data on 'last days'
> when the team isn't doing a complete census, the 'censored' statdate of
> individuals in Weaver's group is 6-27, however courtney has (at least)
> agonism data for animals on 6/29.
>
> Is the best solution here to add demog notes? It looks like Courtney did a
> partial census that day.  I know we set up a rule that we wouldn't enter her
> partial censuses unless a demographic change occured.. but maybe we should
> add to this these special june and december cases where we are likely to
> have interaction data corresponding with her partial census.  If we don't
> use that partial census, the animal's statdate is before its final
> interactions for the 6 month update period.
>
> Let me know if I need to do anything on my end to make this happen so I can
> get these data in.
>
> Thanks
> Lacey
>
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> Duke University
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