How can I easily analyse test score data in a spreadsheet with multiple independent and dependent variables in each row?
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posted by mxc
on May 15, 2013 -
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This drawing or graphic appeared in the print section of either the
Washington Post or the
New York Times on Saturday or Sunday, May 11-12 (my house gets both papers on Sundays and inevitably mixes them up). All sections were put out for the recycle bin Monday before I could clip the article.
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posted by bad grammar
on May 14, 2013 -
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Hi, I have a .csv that exceeds the maximum number of rows that Excel can handle, and before I can import it into a geodatabase in ArcGIS, I need to make one small edit – I need to delete the first row. Is there any way to do this and resave the file (preferably in a format other than .csv) in a way that retains the rows unable to be loaded in Excel?
posted by avocet
on May 9, 2013 -
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Wife and I are now in the Child Protective Services database in Colorado after someone observed bruises and blisters on our three year old and spoke to a 'mandatory reporter' about it. I want to know what is retained in the record/database, how long is it retained, and who can access it. My own attorney was not helpful in answering these questions.
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posted by anonymous
on May 6, 2013 -
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I have a batch of mixed-format data including long-form text fields, hyperlinks, number and plain text in an Excel doc. I have assembled a Word catalog merge file intended to allow me to proof the data manually. There are 42 records.
On merge, the output document results in what appears to be the correct number of pages and records. However, records 28-42 do not appear to place any data in the destination document.
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posted by mwhybark
on Apr 15, 2013 -
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I get reports emails every morning with simple, TSV data in the message body - and am trying to do something pretty with them, automatically.
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posted by borborygmi
on Apr 15, 2013 -
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I have tens of thousands of photo, video and music files. I want to store them in a way that is reliable and rapidly accessible. More details inside.
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posted by googly
on Apr 8, 2013 -
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Is there a program that will do what I'm imagining?
Import a video.
Automatically pick tracking points in the video and track their 2D movement.
Output tracking data in a text format that I'll be able to import into other programs.
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posted by RobotHero
on Apr 8, 2013 -
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The original promise of the data plans for an iPad was that they were not a long term contract, but rather something you could use for a month or two, disable / cancel for a few months and then activate again as you needed it. You also would not have overage charges as running into the limit would just disable your account until you upped the plan. Is that still the case?
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posted by ridogi
on Apr 4, 2013 -
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I'm helping a close friend figure out a digital asset management solution for his small media company. They have five employees, but they do all kinds of media projects for clients, some of them large. They've done websites, videos, printed publications, etc. This generates a lot of data, and their having a hard time managing it.
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posted by primethyme
on Mar 27, 2013 -
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I need a solution to a pretty simple problem with counting instances of different text phrases in Excel.
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posted by clockzero
on Mar 26, 2013 -
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I'm looking for resources regarding certain types of medical devices, ones that produce some sort of measurement or data, eg a Visual Field Analyzer, Ultrasound or an OCT machine.
The type of data I'm looking for is stuff like sales numbers, how many are still currently in use, or where they're in use (which field, small clinics versus large hospitals, US or international). My focus is on legacy devices and Ophthalmology, but any data is useful.
posted by rickim
on Mar 13, 2013 -
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I'm travelling to Costa Rica for two weeks. I want to buy a prepaid sim card for my unlocked Samsung Google Nexus. The phone will be primarily used for navigation via Google Maps. Voice would only be used in case of emergency. I understand I can buy a sim card at the Liberia airport, but the
providers website is exclusively in Spanish. Can anyone look and see what my options are for a prepaid data service? Anyone else have any experience with cel service in Costa Rica? We are trying to decide which is more economical, buying the Costa Rica map-pack for a Garmin GPS or using Google Maps.
posted by Keith Talent
on Mar 9, 2013 -
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Is there a source anywhere for Drone Strike data (Date, kills, location etc.) available as an XML or JSON feed? I'm looking to pull in and crunch the numbers for a Processing project.
posted by GilloD
on Mar 3, 2013 -
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Let's say you have a global disaster where the traditional web is no longer available (all ISPs are down, or a virus/cyber-attack incapacitates the web for entire regions of the world). What are the data communication alternatives in this sort of context? Is anyone still running a BBS? Does anyone even have a dialup modem anymore? Is there something better than this?
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posted by furtive
on Feb 25, 2013 -
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I am handy with HTML, CSS and a little Javascript. I also have a lot of experience with Wordpress theme development. What is the best path for me to become an ace data visualizer on the web?
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posted by Rodrigo Lamaitre
on Feb 16, 2013 -
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One of my colleagues in a school thinks I'm a wizard. Thus she thinks I can make this interface. I told her it sounds terrifyingly complicated and that no off-the-shelf product does what she wants. Am I wrong?
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posted by argybarg
on Feb 14, 2013 -
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DVD-R data archives from an old computer are showing up as blank disks on all the new computers I've tried them with. What can I do to get my data?
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posted by gauche
on Feb 13, 2013 -
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My ideal situation would be basically an iPod Touch with unlimited 4G connectivity for $50-60/month. I'd love to figure out a way to still have all of the features I love with my iPhone, while simultaneously ditching the cost of making calls. Seriously. I have so many anytime minutes banked it's nuts. I'm grandfathered on unlimited data with AT&T (which means nothing really), except that I have a AT&T iPhone 4S to use once my contract is up next year. (Thought it might be pertinent for scenarios.) Not interested in carrying around a second device (e.g. mobile wifi). Thoughts?
posted by letstrythis
on Feb 6, 2013 -
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Can you help me get an idea of what this personal programming project of designing a "data-getting" program (details inside) would involve, given I would be starting from noob level? Alternatives?
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posted by mister_kaupungister
on Feb 5, 2013 -
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In
Star Trek: The Next Generation: Are there any explicit examples, in either the show or the non-canon supporting materials, of Data holding a specific image in his mind? Does he ever say anything like, "I am picturing ____" to explain, in visual terms, what he's thinking about? Does anyone ever direct him to "picture" something?
posted by Greg Nog
on Jan 30, 2013 -
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I'd like to estimate the number of days a year when the high temperature is likely to be below a particular threshold, e.g. below freezing. This turns out to be harder than expected.
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posted by jon1270
on Jan 24, 2013 -
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I will be traveling to a remote location to interview key informants for a research project. I am looking for a convenient interface which to enter the data.
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posted by powerbumpkin
on Jan 22, 2013 -
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I've got Home Designer Architectural 2014 and a desire to buil a house on a steep hillside. I need topographic data for this.
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posted by cmoj
on Jan 18, 2013 -
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I need to correlate two spreadsheets which relate to the same group of people. The name data is messy, however, and I'm having a hard time matching the names.
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posted by mammary16
on Jan 18, 2013 -
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I would like advice on creating a dynamic graphing website to display clinical data on a intranet website to better aide clinicians. What my superiors are seeking is a "Data Mall." My programming/server-admin. experience is minimal, but my Linux-hobbyist mentality
hates the MS Access solution that is being built.
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posted by rosswald
on Jan 16, 2013 -
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Can anyone recommend a reputable and reliable Boston-area data recovery service that will provide a quote before sending in the drive?
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posted by Cat Pie Hurts
on Jan 9, 2013 -
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This is kind of a search question. If you were going somewhere and wanted to know what interesting/fun events might be going on there how would you search for it? What sites would you use? What strategy would you take to figure out what was something significant vs something small and local? How would you assess the quality and what event categories do you think would be useful? If you could use some sort of data mining and could have the computer do some of the work what would you do in addition/ instead? For example, would you mine twitter feeds or facebook pages?
posted by blueyellow
on Jan 2, 2013 -
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Is it possible to recover portions of an image that have been cropped or cut away? And if so, how to prevent that?
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posted by aerotive
on Dec 19, 2012 -
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We want to move to a new CRM provider, but our old CRM provider is holding our data hostage. Is there any recourse?
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posted by doomtop
on Dec 19, 2012 -
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Is there demand for digital librarians trained in data management, exposing electronic collections, digital archiving, and so on?
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posted by jsturgill
on Dec 17, 2012 -
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Are there any kind of notes taken during a medical procedure, or is it all after-action report-type stuff? If I wanted to know just how much of each drug I was given during anesthesia (for instance) for a procedure months or years ago, would it be somewhere in my record that I could request?
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posted by WasabiFlux
on Dec 13, 2012 -
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I'm making a chart showing the number of musicians/recording artists per capita in different countries and US states. What I need is a dataset with the number of musicians in each area.
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posted by dunkadunc
on Dec 7, 2012 -
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I'm trying to tag and code about 4000+ unique paragraphs of data. These are opinion responses to two similar questions. I manually went through the first 4000 responses and it took weeks using Google Refine. I'm wondering if there's a way to operationalize this to be a bit easier and less time consuming?
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posted by iamkimiam
on Nov 29, 2012 -
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What data is my iPhone mysteriously downloading when I'm not really syncing anything, don't use iCloud, and have no apps running?
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posted by Jimbob
on Nov 20, 2012 -
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I want to create a spreadsheet from the hyperlinks and words in a word list on Wiktionary. Please take me through the steps. Thanks!
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posted by iamkimiam
on Nov 20, 2012 -
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A friend of mine is having an issue with her USB flash drive. I'm gonna post what she sent here; can anyone help recover her files?
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posted by andrewcilento
on Nov 15, 2012 -
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Is there a science of division? (i.e. Models of the phenomenon that communities often split into two blocs with some degree of mutual antagonism. And/or empirical data that such models could be compared against.)
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posted by philipy
on Nov 9, 2012 -
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Data sets, Aggs and Smushes, oh my! Can you help me (a designer) learn to wrangle data?
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posted by halseyaa
on Nov 9, 2012 -
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A friend of mine gave me a damaged portable hard drive to see if I can rescue some of his data. It has a SATA connector and it gets recognized by the BIOS, although it tells me that the SMART readings are bad. I can't access it under Windows but I booted to a Linux image and I could mount the drive and look at the contents. The Files are still there but they are all the same size, 4kb. I don't know anything about data rescue so I didn't want to experiment too much as not to damage the drive further. I downloaded some Linux Boot images,
Knoppix,
SystemRescueCD and
UltimateBootCD, which all have various tools for hard drive diagnostic and repairs. Now what would you suggest to try first?
posted by SweetLiesOfBokonon
on Nov 9, 2012 -
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How strongly should I feel about hanging on to my grandfathered AT&T unlimited data plan?
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posted by escabeche
on Nov 4, 2012 -
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Looking for how to get skills that would make me qualified for a data analyst position.
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posted by hrj
on Oct 17, 2012 -
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Question about splitting data into columns: I have one column of data that I'd like to split into seven separate columns. A typical, complete row in the column looks like "mefi:1,ask:3,meta:2,projects:5,jobs:5,music:6,irl:4" where the number values can be anywhere from 1-6. The problem is that if any one or more of the seven subsites are left unanswered, the entire value is missing (there is no "[subsite]:0" or "," as a placeholder). Consequently, separating the column into seven distinct columns using the comma as the separator causes the data to fall/shift into the wrong output columns if any one or more of the seven subsite categories are missing. How can i fix this?
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posted by iamkimiam
on Sep 21, 2012 -
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Can you suggest a system that could help a group of employees manage a long, many-stepped process? We're driving ourselves bonkers in the meantime.
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posted by rachaelfaith
on Sep 18, 2012 -
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I have a serious project proposal for Google. I don't need to make money on it, but I'd like to get it looked at. I've been poking around their websites, and have found places to submit business and partnership ideas, but I'm really not sure that those are the right way to submit this concept. It's something on the order of Google Art Project, but different from that. What would you recommend or link me to? Thanks!
posted by Miko
on Sep 9, 2012 -
7 answers
