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Welcome to Techniques in Data Management!!

Welcome to Techniques in Data Management!!. GEOG 5880/ ECOL 5620 Spring 2011 Instructor: Dr. Shannon E. Albeke http://sites.google.com/site/albekeecoinfo/courses/data-managment. Introductions. Who are you? What is your project? What do you hope to gain from the course?

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Welcome to Techniques in Data Management!!

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  1. Welcome to Techniques in Data Management!! GEOG 5880/ ECOL 5620 Spring 2011 Instructor: Dr. Shannon E. Albeke http://sites.google.com/site/albekeecoinfo/courses/data-managment

  2. Introductions • Who are you? • What is your project? • What do you hope to gain from the course? • On a scale of 0 to 10 where do you consider your nerdiness factor?

  3. Grading Standards and Expectations: • Data Massaging Assignment: 10% • Class Participation: 20% • Group Presentation: 50% • Final Project: 20%

  4. Group Presentations • Teams of 2 • Use your existing data • Overview of the problem/description of data • Talk about the Relational DB and your solutions • Table design • Interesting queries • Data prep solutions • Integration with GIS? • Maybe even preliminary results from your study

  5. File Types and Extensions • Excel and Files you can open with Excel • *.xlsx, xlsm(old *.xls) • Text files • *.txt, *.csv, *.tab. *.asc • dBase files (mainly attribute table from shapefile) • *.dbf • Access • *.accdb >= Office 2007 • *.mdb for old Office and Personal Geodatabase

  6. Data Types • Slight difference between Excel and Access • Text/String – 1 to 255 characters • Number • AutoNumber, Integer, Long Integer = no decimal • Double/Float = decimal • Date/Time • Memo and BLOB

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