Five tips for digitizing handwritten data

Five tips for digitizing handwritten data

In December, he reached out to Bahlai, a computational ecologist at Kent State University in Ohio, to ask whether she wanted the many boxes of handwritten data sheets stored in his laboratory. [...]because this is one step removed from data collection, the process is rife with potential for error. H...

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Published in:Nature (London) 2024-03, Vol.627 (8002), p.233-234
Main Author: Katsnelson, Alla
Format: Article
Language:eng
Subjects:
Air temperature
Atmospheric conditions
Climate change
Data collection
Digitization
Digitizing
Ecologists
Fieldwork
Handwriting
Heavy rainfall
Laboratories
Metadata
Outliers (statistics)
Rainfall
Research methodology
Software
Students
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Summary:In December, he reached out to Bahlai, a computational ecologist at Kent State University in Ohio, to ask whether she wanted the many boxes of handwritten data sheets stored in his laboratory. [...]because this is one step removed from data collection, the process is rife with potential for error. Here's another must-do, says Joel Correia, a human-environment geographer at Colorado State University in Fort Collins: invest the time and resources upfront to train the people doing the fieldwork. Outliers in her data can reflect unusually heavy rain or aberrations in atmospheric conditions, such as temperature or air pressure - real variation that is simply unexpected.
ISSN:0028-0836
1476-4687