Community Dynamics Toolbox

h1. Project Team Meetings

h2. next meeting TBD

h2. 11/22/2013

Scott, Syd, Corinna

Workshop preparation: What to ask people to do in preparation for attending:

bring a dataset - multi species and multi sampling

how do you want to analyze your data

bring R code if available

What questions can be asked across several datasets of different taxonomic groups and habitats

Syd:

list of indices that we already have identified on this website

R code to handle the four example datasets

Corinna:

Kepler workflow to access the data via EML and pass on a R dataframe

Or R code accessing datasets in DataONE

h2. 10/11/2013

Matt, Scott, Corinna

plans for the workshop:

treat part of the workshop as hackathon, combine ecologists, R specialist, and workflow specialist in groups to actually implement an analysis.

Data sets: people should bring their data sets.

Syd to find appropriate data sets and give feedback on how to find them. 

goals of workshop: 

list of analyses, list of data sets, what is need to move from raw data to analyses and visualization.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AgZm2NvfJ87OdFlBdWRQMkNwWnpCT3FkcEJDb2gtZ0E&usp=drive_web#gid=0

h2. 9/17/2013

Matt, Scott, Syd, Sam, Corinna

Started list of potential invitees for the workshop in google docs.

h2. 8/27/2013

Matt, Scott, Syd, Sam, Corinna

reports:

Matt is still trying to hire a programmer

Corinna announced project at LTER IM meeting and got several responses regarding datasets available. Specifically GCE, LUQ, and VCR

Syd has started R programming for some community change indeces

workshop planning:

start document for goals, participants and agenda

action items:

Corinna start document for workshop planning

Syd and Sam communicate about R routines for data manipulation

Syd and Scot get names of datasets from SEV and KNZ to Corinna

Corinna and Sam work with Kristin and Adam to get EML for those datasets

h2. 6/13/2013

Matt, Scott, Syd, Sam, Corinna

Agenda

Action items from last meeting

Scott - report from the Science Council meeting re. datasets

Matt - intro to project management system and start of tracking Community Change indices

Corinna - start list of participants for first workshop at NCEAS

Notes

Scott announced the project at the LTER Science Council meeting

Important to remember is that we have support to clean data and document them in EML. We are not expecting the information managers at other sites to add this to their tasks. We can take datasets that have at least 10 data points at even time intervals.

Action items:

Matt: add functionality to this project management system to track datasets from a general idea of its existence to actually being in the NIS/DataONE

Corinna: start adding Community Change indices from the proposal to redmine. 

h2. 5/2/2013

Matt, Syd, Corinna

Today we filled Syd in a bit on her role in the project and talked some more about the first workshop in spring 2014.

Action items:

Corinna - doodle for the community workshop in February/March and set date

Syd - download and explore Kepler

Scott and Syd - start list of community change metrics that we want to encode

Matt - hire programmer

Next project team meeting: 6/13/2013 1 pm MDT