WK 13 - How to Prepare Ecological Data Sets for Effective Analysis and Sharing

Closing

August 1st, 2010

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Best Practices for Preparing Ecological Data Sets, ESA, August 2010

Workshop Goal

Provide guidance on fundamental data management practices that investigators should perform during the course of data collection to improve the usability of data sets

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– By yourself– By collaborators– By people outside your project

By following the practices taught in this workshop, your data will be less prone to error, more efficiently structured for analysis, and more readily understandable for any future questions that they might help address.

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Best Practices for Preparing Ecological Data Sets, ESA, August 2010

Workshop Assessment

• Many took the DataONE baseline data management survey before the workshop

• In a week, I’ll ask you to re-take the survey• We’ll conduct a before and after evaluation

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Best Practices for Preparing Ecological Data Sets, ESA, August 2010

For additional help

• Visit ORNL DAAC and NBII booths during the week– Viv at USGS NBII booth #115– Tammy and Suresh at NASA booth #613

• Contact Workshop Team

• Workshop presentations are on-linehttp://daac.ornl.gov/ESA_Workshops_2010/ESA2010_WK-13.shtml

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Thank you !

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