I always assumed my advisor had a great data and computer file management system. But when I asked her for a particular piece of information,…
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Notes on an Amazing Existing Excel Add-In
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Last week I had an interesting conversation with Hazel Asuncion from University of Washington’s Bothell campus. Along with an undergraduate computer science student, she’s been…
DCXLblog Lite
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Due to a number of upcoming activities associated with the DCXL project, both of this week’s posts are quite… light. However there was a great…
Your Turn!
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For those of you that have been reading this blog, you know that I’ve devoted much of the content to results from scientist surveys. How…
Sharing Fish Data
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Before last week, I had never attended an American Fisheries Society function. I have known a few fisheries biologists in my academic and personal life,…
Excel Use Among Fisheries Folks
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Last week I spent some time at the 2011 Fall Meeting for the American Fisheries Society. The streets of Seattle were swamped with an estimated…
Potentially Problematic Excel Features
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This post wraps up my report from the ESA conference, but I saved some of the best info for last. I asked ecologists what features…
For the last two posts, I have given a brief overview of the qualitative results from the ESA meeting. For this post, I am reporting…
Ecology Spreadsheets 101
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While at ESA, I wore two hats- one as the DCXL project manager, and one as a DataONE postdoc working on engaging the scientific community…
ESA 2011 Meeting, Austin TX
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Earlier this month, I attended the Ecological Society of America’s 2011 Meeting, held in Austin TX. I joined thousands of Ecologists in thinking, discussing, networking,…