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Repository to host data standards for the ALIFE community.
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Ancestor list data type convention? #20

Open mmore500 opened 1 year ago

mmore500 commented 1 year ago

I noticed that some CSV data files represent ancestor_list as an array of str with integer contents (e.g., https://github.com/alife-data-standards/alife-std-dev-python/blob/f21a63d70077345441b9b52c3f470f5dca1127c1/example_data/example-standard-toy-asexual-phylogeny.csv) while others represent ancestor_list as an array of int (e.g., https://osf.io/5d3be). Is there a convention for a preferred representation?

mmore500 commented 1 year ago

Here's an example of a third convention, where the whole column is represented as a str https://raw.githubusercontent.com/alife-data-standards/alife-std-dev-python/f21a63d70077345441b9b52c3f470f5dca1127c1/example_data/sexual_phylogeny_test.csv.