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Apr. 7th, 2010 10:31 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kareinaWhat have I been doing since last I posted, five days ago? Lots of work, and a bit of enjoying the fact that it was a holiday weekend.
Saturday night was a D&D game with friends, and Sunday was Easter dinner with the same friends--both events were much needed fun. I've made it out for a few walks and one short rollerblade trip for exercise. Monday and Tuesday we had a particularily nice view of the Alps (the weekend's rain having washed the smog from the sky)
Other than that I've been trying to get data processed in preparation for sharing results at a confrence in France next week. I now finally have files which contain all of the analyzes which worked for each of the mineral phases in each of the experiments I've run. I've also got files which record which of the analyzes were rejected (usually because the electron beam analyzed both the target spot and some of the neighboring phase(s), which results in weird numbers which look like neither of the phases present). This means I now know which mineral phases are present at which temperatures and pressures. Today my boss and I finally finished "cleaning" the data, rejecting the last few analyzes which are clearly not a single mineral phase, and I started doing the good graphs in Mathmatica which show the composition of each mineral, complete with error bars.
Alas, I managed only the first one. The program is set up such that we first tell it to read the files, then we tell it which mineral to graph, then tell it which variables to plot this time. After it has all of that information it makes a tiny graph and lets you set the limits on the axis based on the range shown in the tiny graph, and it makes a full-sized graph. One then copy-pastes that into a drawing program, where one can clean it up (labels tend to appear overlapped). Alas, after I did the first one and went to do the second it didn't' work anymore. It generates the new tiny graph just fine showing the newly requested data, but the full size graph isn't changing, no matter how many times I ask it to--even restating the program doesn't help. I wouldn't worry , but I leave for that confrence on Sunday, and it would be nice to have the graphs available to put into the slide show for the talk... Oh well, hopefully my boss will see the e-mail and be able to figure out what the problem is.
Saturday night was a D&D game with friends, and Sunday was Easter dinner with the same friends--both events were much needed fun. I've made it out for a few walks and one short rollerblade trip for exercise. Monday and Tuesday we had a particularily nice view of the Alps (the weekend's rain having washed the smog from the sky)
Other than that I've been trying to get data processed in preparation for sharing results at a confrence in France next week. I now finally have files which contain all of the analyzes which worked for each of the mineral phases in each of the experiments I've run. I've also got files which record which of the analyzes were rejected (usually because the electron beam analyzed both the target spot and some of the neighboring phase(s), which results in weird numbers which look like neither of the phases present). This means I now know which mineral phases are present at which temperatures and pressures. Today my boss and I finally finished "cleaning" the data, rejecting the last few analyzes which are clearly not a single mineral phase, and I started doing the good graphs in Mathmatica which show the composition of each mineral, complete with error bars.
Alas, I managed only the first one. The program is set up such that we first tell it to read the files, then we tell it which mineral to graph, then tell it which variables to plot this time. After it has all of that information it makes a tiny graph and lets you set the limits on the axis based on the range shown in the tiny graph, and it makes a full-sized graph. One then copy-pastes that into a drawing program, where one can clean it up (labels tend to appear overlapped). Alas, after I did the first one and went to do the second it didn't' work anymore. It generates the new tiny graph just fine showing the newly requested data, but the full size graph isn't changing, no matter how many times I ask it to--even restating the program doesn't help. I wouldn't worry , but I leave for that confrence on Sunday, and it would be nice to have the graphs available to put into the slide show for the talk... Oh well, hopefully my boss will see the e-mail and be able to figure out what the problem is.
