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Sep. 6th, 2004 03:13 pmCharlotte: Who would have thought, fifteen years ago, that we'd be saving things on CDs after working in the lab?
Morsla: Who would have thought that we could generate so much data in an afternoon...?
Computer: Arrrrgh! It burns! Make the numbers stop!
I have created a monster. My ICP-MS data now runs to 1.59GB, and would need three CDs to carry around... soon, I'll try to make sense of it all.
How do you make sense of that many numbers? Pictures... many, many graphs, I suspect. You can't really grasp just how many grains of sand are on a beach, but you can see the shoreline :)
Morsla: Who would have thought that we could generate so much data in an afternoon...?
Computer: Arrrrgh! It burns! Make the numbers stop!
I have created a monster. My ICP-MS data now runs to 1.59GB, and would need three CDs to carry around... soon, I'll try to make sense of it all.
How do you make sense of that many numbers? Pictures... many, many graphs, I suspect. You can't really grasp just how many grains of sand are on a beach, but you can see the shoreline :)
