Skill Sharing:How to pre-process and visualize data

GLEON Fellowship WorkshopJanuary 14-18, 2013

Sunapee, NHAline Jaimes

Source: Missouri Botanical Garden

Source: Jornada experimental range

Application to data

• Use eddy covariance data from my research station in New Mexico.

Application to data

Main challengesTo integrate 3 data tables sampled at different frequencies

10Hz – flux data30min – meteorological data1min – soil data

• This script is an example of how to pre-process and visualize data to assess data quality.

Skill relevance/usefulness

• Assessing quality and status of data sets is a tedious but important work towards data integration.

• Having a automated script to repeat the process will ensure consistency throughout the data set.

Data visualization• 2D and scatterplot Colormaps

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