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Germinate Mobile

By on 03/10/2013 in Crop Geeks
Germinate Mobile

Mobile devices are ubiquitous and get cheaper and more powerful every day. This opens up new opportunities to broaden the range of software products and introduce mobile applications that can aid in collecting and reviewing data on the go. As an example: Imagine you are a researcher out in the fields and are wondering which […]

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Using Frequency Tag Clouds in Error Identification

By on 09/09/2013 in Crop Geeks
Using Frequency Tag Clouds in Error Identification

Word clouds sometimes get a hard time (and sometimes justifiably so) but they have functionality that makes them an effective way to look for errors in large textual-based datasets. In this example we used the online word cloud based service Wordle http://www.wordle.net/ after running a Perl program over as much pedigree data as we could gather on […]

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