[Babase] conversion run?
Lacey Maryott
lacey.maryott at duke.edu
Thu Jun 7 14:55:21 EDT 2007
sorry to duplicate Karls e-mail :( looks like he said it all in fewer words!
Lacey Maryott wrote:
> Jeanne, (et al)
>
> Karl and I just got off the phone. The compare programs between
> the old copy of members and the new copy of members is showing some
> differences, but all of them are a change from group 1.0 to group 9.0
> one way or the other, they were in it and are now in 1.0 for the given
> day, or vice versa, I think these are the types of differences to be
> expected, so for now I am going to push on with entering everything
> through the end of 1988. This will be done by tomorrow afternoon and
> Karl will run another conversion, and another compare between
> babase_test (the old data) and babase_copy (the new data) to make sure
> that our input of these census files isn't creating huge differences.
> I will look at all of the members differences either over the weekend
> or on monday, and investigate to see if they are correct differences,
> or if there are some things that need to be changed, or fixed.
> Overall though, this went a lot better than I had hoped, and I both
> Karl and myself are optimistic that adding in the other 6 years should
> be similarly painless. We'll keep you posted!
>
> Looks like by next week Leah and I could be working on 2006 B update
> in babase 2.0!!! :-D
> We will be doing this in both systems to ensure that our upload
> programs work, but we'll be using the programs!! YAY!
>
> Take Care
> Lacey
>
> Jeanne Altmann wrote:
>> Sounds good; then we will be ready to be totally in 2.0 won't we?
>> Hooray,
>> jeanne
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: babase-bounces at eeblistserv.princeton.edu
>> [mailto:babase-bounces at eeblistserv.princeton.edu] On Behalf Of Lacey
>> Maryott
>> Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2007 1:48 PM
>> To: The Baboon Database Project
>> Subject: Re: [Babase] conversion run?
>>
>> YAY!!!! no errors!!! :-D Thats really great. In that case, shall I go
>> ahead and add in the other years today and tomorrow (through 88)?
>>
>> Lacey
>>
>> Karl O. Pinc wrote:
>>
>>> On 06/07/2007 11:42:21 AM, Lacey Maryott wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hey Karl,
>>>> I was wondering if you know why the conversion has taken 15+
>>>> hours to run, does something seem to be VERY wrong, or is it just
>>>> the new census data slowing it down :-\
>>>>
>>> Long contiguous series of "old style" census rows, that do not begin
>>> when the individual first appears, take a long time to interpolate. I
>>>
>>
>>
>>> did not bother optimizing for this case because I figured it
>>> wouldn't matter. (And I'm not sure exactly what's possible.
>>> Trouble is that a
>>>
>>
>>
>>> whole lot of uninterpolating and interpolating and destruction and
>>> creation of MEMBERS rows needs to go on.) As you put more "real"
>>> census rows in and reduce the "block" where there's just "old"
>>> census rows I'd expect the interpolation to speed up some.
>>>
>>> Come time to do this in the new system you might find things will go
>>> faster if you, for instance, begin by putting the "new style" census
>>> rows in at the "endpoints", say the first and last month of the
>>> year, and then "fill-in" the middle months.
>>>
>>>
>>> It's making me scared there are
>>>
>>>> going to be a ton of errors.. haha
>>>>
>>> So far no errors and it should be done in a few minutes.
>>>
>>> There. Done. No errors.
>>>
>>> Karl <kop at meme.com>
>>> Free Software: "You don't pay back, you pay forward."
>>> -- Robert A. Heinlein
>>>
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>>
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>> Lacey Maryott
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>> Department of Biology
>> Duke University
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Lacey Maryott
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Department of Biology
Duke University
ph: 919-660-7306
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Lacey.Maryott at duke.edu
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