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International-Soil-Radiocarbon-Database / ISRaD

Repository for the development and release of ISRaD data and tools
https://international-soil-radiocarbon-database.github.io/ISRaD/
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Preserve data reported as "modern" #49

Closed alkalifly closed 6 years ago

alkalifly commented 6 years ago

Currently, the QAQC tool will only accept numeric values in the fraction modern column. However, several studies report layers as "modern" rather than providing a fraction modern greater than 1. The current approach is to delete these cells and leave them blank, as though there was never any data there at all, but with this we end up losing some information. I understand that there is not much value in this information, but even knowing that the fraction modern is greater than 1 can potentially provide some constraint beyond having no data at all. Is there any way to preserve this information?

greymonroe commented 6 years ago

"modern" could be recorded as "Inf" which is still numeric

jb388 commented 6 years ago

Seems like a good solution. Just need to make sure we document all these conventions!

alkalifly commented 6 years ago

I entered "Inf" (with a capital I) into the lyr_fraction_modern column, and it still fails QAQC with WARNING values greater than accepted max in lyr_fraction_modern column

jb388 commented 6 years ago

Thought I had dealt with this, but apparently not. Should be fixed now.