[Babase] Tooth table docs
Susan Alberts
alberts at duke.edu
Wed Aug 4 12:04:22 EDT 2010
I should add just a brief comment here to say that the design
decisions that we made at the time were a bit abstract, before we
started actually using or thinking about using the database, so any
comments I made at that time should be overridden, especially if it
seems that there is a better way.
Susan
On Jul 30, 2010, at 8:29 PM, Karl O. Pinc wrote:
> There is a general toothnotes column on DARTINGS for anything
> leftover that does not fit into the coding scheme. Susan didn't
> seem to think that it was worthwhile having a separate notes
> column on TEETH because it's not something that is easily looked
> at and because the notes are not particularly amenable to computer
> analysis anyway they may as well go in one place. If necessary
> textual remarks can be added to make it clear which notes apply
> to which teeth.
>
> On 07/30/2010 03:30:19 PM, Jeanne Altmann wrote:
>> Ok, this helps a lot to understand why it looked confusing to us.
>> I'll
>> keep that in mind and we'll look at all places where these currently
>> reside. Please confirm where all those places are and whether
>> everything relevant has been entered. Combining and being consistent
>> on
>> whatever we settle on for the condition columns will be essential for
>> them to be useful. Then we can have the other range of notes be for
>> others, perhaps having a 'pointer' from the conditions column---will
>> think on it, probably can't resolve it over the weekend but will
>> make
>> some progress.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> jeanne
>>
>>
>>
>> From: babase-bounces at eeblistserv.princeton.edu
>> [mailto:babase-bounces at eeblistserv.princeton.edu] On Behalf Of Lacey
>> Maryott Roerish
>> Sent: Friday, July 30, 2010 3:11 PM
>> To: The Baboon Database Project
>> Subject: Re: [Babase] Tooth table docs
>>
>>
>>
>> This has kind of been my question. Do we combine all this.. leave
>> some
>> in notes, make large categories for others. this data is so
>> inconsistently coded.
>>
>>
>>
>> Lacey
>>
>> On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 2:28 PM, Niki Learn <nlearn at princeton.edu>
>> wrote:
>>
>> Okay, so Jeanne and I are looking at dart_teeth in babase_pending and
>> at
>> the
>> empty teeth table in babase_test. We are a little confused. We have
>> the
>> descriptors for each of the four canines listed in babase_pending and
>> we
>> want to boil those down into a small set of possible canine states.
>>
>> Then there are two other columns, a general tooth notes column and a
>> canine
>> notes column. It looks like some of the notes in these columns can
>> actually
>> be put into canine states because they are about canines and seem to
>> mostly
>> be of the same sort of comment as we see in the columns for each
>> canine.
>> But then other notes are about other teeth, about all the teeth, etc.
>> Where
>> will these go? Or is that one of the things you want input on? Do
>> we
>> want
>> another tooth_state column for noncanines? We're not sure what we
>> are
>> supposed to do with them.
>>
>> Thanks!
>> Niki
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: babase-bounces at eeblistserv.Princeton.EDU
>> [mailto:babase-bounces at eeblistserv.Princeton.EDU] On Behalf Of Karl
>> O.
>> Pinc
>> Sent: Friday, July 30, 2010 1:14 PM
>> To: babase at eeblistserv.Princeton.EDU
>> Subject: [Babase] Tooth table docs
>>
>> http://papio.biology.duke.edu/babase_system_html/ch03s04.html#TEETH
>>
>>
>> Karl <kop at meme.com>
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