Data Problems: Difference between revisions

*I found the data very difficult to work with for the pilot study on treehoppers. It took me over a week to clean it up and put like information together and standardize information so it could be used in an analysis - this includes dates, common names, scientific names, higher taxonomy. And, as Katja mentioned, if you search the portal on family name but the record doesn't have a higher taxonomic designation, you miss all those records and no one wants to search by hundreds of genus or species names one by one to make sure they are all there. Records should absolutely contain Order, Suborder, Family, Subfamily, Tribe (if appropriate) and genus names.  

*It seems that most people view these data as species page information. However, if you try to use it to do an analysis, the format doesn't work well.

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**Terms should be evaluated for continuity. The term “row number” contains a space.

**Ideally would like a tsv as well as a csv download. (support for tsv export format is coming in next release of portal)

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[[Media:Portal_comments_020215.pdf|See example]].

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