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Pubblicato in Data & Molecule Bits
Autore Giorgio Luciano

As scientists and data analysts, we often encounter complex curves in our work. These could be spectroscopic data, chromatograms, or any other type of signal that appears as a single peak but might be composed of multiple underlying components. The process of breaking down such a curve into its constituent parts is known as curve deconvolution or peak fitting.

Pubblicato in Data & Molecule Bits
Autore Giorgio Luciano

Excel non è un Database: Linee Guida Essenziali per una Corretta Gestione dei Dati È fondamentale comprendere la differenza tra un foglio di calcolo e un database, nonché l’importanza di una corretta gestione dei dati. Di seguito sono riportati motivi per cui Excel non dovrebbe essere utilizzato come database, insieme a criteri essenziali per gestire e analizzare i dati in modo efficace.

Pubblicato in Data & Molecule Bits
Autore Giorgio Luciano

Confronto tra Excel e Database nella Gestione Clinica dei Dati: Errori e Sicurezza Caso Excel: Errore nel Valore di una Glicemia Un errore comune in Excel è l’inserimento di valori non corretti a causa di formati non standardizzati. Supponiamo di avere una tabella in cui si registrano i valori di glicemia dei pazienti.

Pubblicato in Data & Molecule Bits
Autore Giorgio Luciano

Non-Negotiables for Your Data In today’s data-driven world, it is essential to understand the difference between a spreadsheet and a database, as well as the importance of proper data management. This post will explain why Excel should not be used as a database and provide key guidelines for effectively managing and analyzing data.

Pubblicato in Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the Week

The world is full of wonderful animals, both extant and extinct, and they all have names. As a result, it’s fairly common for newly named animals to be given names already in use — as for example with the giant Miocene sperm whale “ Leviathan ” (now Livyatan ). BUt there are ways to avoid walking into this problem, and in a helpful post on the Dinosaur Mailing Group, Ben Creisler recently posted a summary.

Pubblicato in Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the Week

I was struck by a Mastodon post where classic game developer Ron Gilbert quoted film critic Roger Ebert as follows: And Gilbert commented: In a reply, Gretchen Anderson said her favourite version of this is: I couldn’t find the original source for this, but as I was trying to track it down I ran into this, attributed to Pablo Picasso: When I mentioned these observations to Matt, he sent me a longer-form exposition of the same phenomenon,

Pubblicato in Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the Week

Yes, we’ve touched on a similar subject in a previous tutorial, but today I want to make a really important point about writing anything of substance, whether it’s a scientific paper, a novel or the manual for a piece of software. It’s this: you have to actually do the work. And the way you do that is by first doing a bit of the work, then doing a bit more, and iterating until it’s all done.

Pubblicato in Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the Week
Autore Matt Wedel

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Pubblicato in Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the Week
Autore Matt Wedel

“And in conclusion, this new fossil/analysis shows that Lineageomorpha was more [here fill in the blank]: diverse morphologically varied widely distributed geographically widely distributed stratigraphically …than previously appreciated.“  Yes, congratulations, you’ve correctly identified that time moves forward linearly and that information accumulates.