[Babase] conference call summary 14 July 2004
Jeanne Altmann
babase@www.eco.princeton.edu
Wed, 14 Jul 2004 17:39:08 -0400
thanks Steph for another summary that is both entertaining and informative;
I will be at 304 924 5852 (Grace & Tom's) at the magic hour of 1300
EDT. Steph, remember that you will need to call Daphne & me SEPARATELY
next week, and you might as well use her office number, not mine to avoid
any confusion on her part.
jeanne
At 05:12 PM 7/14/2004 -0400, you wrote:
>Hi Babasers,
>
> Today we celebrated our mid-July conference call. The fun involved
> steph hanging up on everyone at least twice and cursing the conference
> call gods for their difficulty. And this is trying WITH directions...can
> you imagine without directions??? a truly terrifying thought.
>
>OK - the "meat" of our conference call (yes, we did eventually end up
>conferenced together).
>
>1. Karl has been working on the speed-ups, and predicts that he will have
>them done by the end of the day. Woohoo!!! I don't know about the rest of
>you, but I, your faithful secretary, am VERY excited to see how much
>faster the program will go.
>
>2. Sequence orders and cycles: Karl understands this problem, and has
>fixed most of the issues, we believe. He just needs to update the latest
>version of the program so that I can run all of the fancy new things.
>
>3. Ignore Alex for now.
>
>4. Blank births for immigrant males: to be discussed with Susan. It's
>likely that males who didn't get age estimates will be assigned an average
>age. So, the birth date blanks won't be permanent.
>
>5. Repstats is part of the tables that have been "converted." We reminded
>ourselves that repstats has issues. Both cycstats and repstats are
>created from cycles. The rules and codings that are created from cycles
>need to be tweaked (see previous episodes, i mean emails, of our
>conference call summaries). Karl is aware of this, but hasn't fixed it yet.
>
>6. SO, Karl's order of attack: speedups (today), fix repstats/cycles
>issues, begin the conversion of census info (census, demog and members).
>Now hopefully those last few tables won't slow the program down
>again...just when I was getting excited about less than 24 hour turnaround.
>
>7. At the time of the conference call, duke's login.biology server was
>down. Steph alerted the computer gurus upstairs, and the problem seems to
>be fixed now.
>
>8. Other: Preliminary discussion of issues involved in integrating and
>converting the hormone data (similar issues are likely to arise when the
>genetic data are converted also). Issue highlights include blanks, the
>amount of data manipulation that occurs in excel before it would hit
>foxpro, and how much of the "raw" stuff would go into the database.
>Jeanne, Daphne and hormone team will discuss more. This issue will be
>revisited at a later date.
>
>9. Just so we're all up to speed: the new database has a "MATURED" table.
>It will only include mature animals (i.e. no one gets to have their name
>entered/updated into there until they are mature).
>
>That's all for now. We are really stream-lining our calls once I actually
>manage to get everyone linked up.
>
>'til next week (JEANNE - GIVE ME THE FARM NUMBER TO CONTACT YOU!!)
>-steph
>
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