Tag Archives: data formatting

Of time series and ticks

Posted on August 10, 2019 by kstackwhitney

With so much attention on ticks and Lyme disease – there must be lots of long term datasets, right?! A guest post by RIT student Sofie Christie Continue reading →

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Spreading the open science love like it’s my job because it is my job.

Posted on October 21, 2015 by cbahlai

So, this happened. Apparently, yelling into the void about data management and reproducibility is a very good way to get yourself onto a rag-tag team of open-science proto-superheroes.1 Yes, that’s right, I’m a Mozilla Science fellow, and together, baby, we’re … Continue reading →

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Dealing with dates as data in Excel

Posted on July 2, 2014 by cbahlai

This post is not about dating, as in romantic entanglements, although lots of scientists I know collect data on the dates they go on.* But like dates of the human variety, dealing with dates, as in those pesky things that … Continue reading →

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Help me, I’m covered in bees -or- using OpenRefine to clean specimen data

Posted on May 16, 2014 by cbahlai

It’s probably time I got to this- I did promise it over three months ago. Yesterday, I finally sat down to revisit a dataset which was created in 2008-2009, but then orphaned when staff moved on to other positions. It’s … Continue reading →

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Bridging the data style gap- Part 1- different disciplines, different data formats

Posted on February 6, 2014 by cbahlai

This post is first in a series where I will essentially be live-blogging on working on an #otherpeoplesdata dataset. These data are associated with a project examining bee diversity in bioenergy cropping systems. I’ve already done a little bit of … Continue reading →

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Formatting your data tables for storage and re-use

Posted on December 18, 2013 by cbahlai

If you follow me on twitter, you probably know I’m compiling a huge dataset. I’ve used a variety of tools to work on these data (most notably reshape and OpenRefine), and now the data is in its cleanest form- a … Continue reading →

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Excel is not your lab notebook

Posted on December 16, 2013 by cbahlai

Almost every entomologist I know uses excel for data storage. I’m not going to turn this into a rant about why that’s wrong, in fact, I’m going to confess something that may seriously impair my street cred* as a data … Continue reading →

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