Upload data

In this section you will copy some sample data and upload it to your project.

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Right click on this link --> Sample File and select Save link as...

This will download a file to your computer called crabs_long.csv

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About the example data {-}

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Crab data description:

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The data set is called Crabs and it is in a long format.

Long format means that each row of data is a single measurement rather than an individual crab.

The file contains 1000 records.

200 Crabs where 5 physical traits each were measured

Data is recorded under five headings (called factors).

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Factor|Description ------|--- observation| A crab specimen. Numbered 1-200 Color |B (Blue Crab) or O (Orange Crab) sex|M (Male) or F (Female) variable|Five crab physical traits can be measured FL, RW, CL, CW and BD measurement| The value in mm of the variable

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Crab variable descriptions

FL (frontal lobe size)\ RW (rear width)\ CL (carapace length)\ CW (carapace width)\ BD (body depth)\

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Upload a data file {-}

From your crabs project home page.

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Click New data set

A dialog window will open.

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Give your data a name (e.g.Crab data)

Click on Choose File

Browse to your file location and select it.

Leave the defaults for encoding, separator, and quote types.

Click Next

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Tercen will display the column headers (factors) it has detected from your file and the data type (e.g character, numeric) it has detected in the rows.

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Click OK

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(The Next button would take you to the wide to longconversion wizard. This isn't necessary as the Crabs sample data is already in long format.)

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You will now see the new data set listed on the project home page.

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You have successfully uploaded the sample data to Tercen.

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Next... create a new workflow.



tercen/crabs_tutorial documentation built on Aug. 12, 2020, 7:20 p.m.