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Community-driven replacement for Isoplot
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Topsoil citation? #34

Closed ryanickert closed 10 years ago

ryanickert commented 10 years ago

The current version of Topsoil is very close to something that I could be using to produce figures. In order to allocate the appropriate credit and to help spread the word, it would be great to know the preferred method by which to reference Topsoil in a manuscript, thesis, poster, talk etc.

bowring commented 10 years ago

Thanks for the question - we are working on a citable article, but in the short term, we suggest either a footnote or an acknowledgement as follows:

J.F. Bowring, PI CIRDLES.org Open Source Development Team. Topsoil - A community driven replacement for ISOPLOT. Apache License, Version 2.0. https://github.com/CIRDLES/topsoil.

noahmclean commented 10 years ago

Have we established any testing protocols to perform before we recommend that people use this for publications? Perhaps some test datasets would be useful?

For instance, I noticed that the 95% uncertainty interval choice in the 'Error Ellipse Chart' shrinks the ellipses from their two-sigma size. A two-sigma ellipse is an 86% confidence interval, so the ellipses should instead get larger when I switch to 95%. Something's going wrong here, and probably all ellipse sizes, placements, concordia and concordia tick calculations, etc need to get checked. I checked for the ellipse size bug in Redux, and it is still working fine.

bowring commented 10 years ago

For integration testing, the use of synthetic data sets is planned. We are also developing unit tests.

However, for the short run, alpha testing by users is the default mechanism. Please make an issue of the 95% so it will get attention.

On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 9:45 AM, Noah McLean notifications@github.comwrote:

Have we established any testing protocols to perform before we recommend that people use this for publications? Perhaps some test datasets would be useful?

For instance, I noticed that the 95% uncertainty interval choice in the 'Error Ellipse Chart' shrinks the ellipses from their two-sigma size. A two-sigma ellipse is an 86% confidence interval, so the ellipses should instead get larger when I switch to 95%. Something's going wrong here, and probably all ellipse sizes, placements, concordia and concordia tick calculations, etc need to get checked.

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