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Metanalysis project effects of thinning and burning on understory vegetation
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MIssing data in papers.csv, multiple columns with the same name. #24

Closed dschwilk closed 9 years ago

dschwilk commented 9 years ago
  1. There are multiple columns for lat and lon in papers.csv. Why? Only a few rows have data in those additional columns. What does that represent?
  2. There are many papers with no FuelType. Are these ones you want me (schwilk) to check? For FuelType, why are some cells blank and others "NA"? Is there a difference in meaning? It looks like there is NA for papers we did not use but blank for those we did.
jwillms commented 9 years ago
  1. I removed the additional lat and lon values. They were there because some papers took place in multiple locations. However, they weren't far enough away from each other for it to make a difference, so the extra info was not needed. I picked a single representative lat and lon.
  2. There are no blanks in the current version. https://github.com/schwilklab/understory-ma/commit/377ce6c53d4b1d25e73d51d33f53702befa6a38a

The NA's are for when papers had only "Thin" treatments and no "Burn" treatments. No burning means there was no fuel. If there are blanks, they should be NA's, but I couldn't spot any.