Troves of Data: Charting the Past

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This blog post entry was written by CLIR CCEPS Fellow, Vinh
Tran:

There are lots of
data that can be found in the pile of crumbling papers from the Willis S. Jones
boxes: hydraulic head, rainfall, water flow, soil composition, etc. The thing,
no one really turned them to graphs, probably because of the somewhat monstrous
handwriting (seriously, is that an F, an S, or a P?), lack of measurement units
(also, head of water [ft] or atm, pick one!), and the general unavailability of
our lord and savior, Excel! But now that we can gather and view them in one
place, producing charts and graphs can be easily done and may help us better
understand the geographical and geological characteristics of the region (if
you’re into that kind of stuff). Who knows, someone might actually use them for
their research (not me though). One last thing, who the hell thinks it’s a good
idea to use log√2 for the x-axis?