soundDB
Background (who am I?)
- GeoCorps intern with Davyd in Denali
- Installed, maintained, fixed many soundstations
- SPLATted and listened
- Coded tools for analyzing Denali dataset
Current Workflow & Tools
Excel at processing data from a single site
Data formats are consistent
File structure is consistent
Current Workflow & Tools
Most common data analysis tool:
Current Workflow & Tools
Analyzing one site: easy
Analyzing many sites: tedious copy+paste
Current Workflow & Tools
"Everyone has their own NVSPL reader function"
New scripts often mean new file-reading code
Mostly ad-hoc solutions
Dealing with accessing many files is still taking time and effort
Current Workflow & Tools
Great at processing data from one site routinely
Good at analyzing data from one site routinely
Still working on analyzing data across many, many sites routinely
soundDB
Python library for accessing any subset of the whole natural sounds dataset
soundDB
Once you write this:
You can easily do this:
Example
import soundDB
sites = ["DENAUPST2015", "DENAFANG2013", "DENAWEBU2009"]
srcids = soundDB.srcid.all(sites)
# now the contents of the SRCID files for those three sites
# are loaded into one DataFrame, called srcids
# analyze as you wishExample
nvspls = soundDB.nvspl.all(sites)
metrics = soundDB.metrics.all(sites)
listening = soundDB.audibility.all(sites)
dailyPAs = soundDB.dailypa.all(sites)
loudevents = soundDB.loudevents.all(sites)Example
import soundDB
sites = ["DENAUPST2015", "DENAFANG2013", "DENAWEBU2009"]
srcids = soundDB.srcid.all(sites)
srcids.to_excel("allSrcIDs.xls")
# saves all 3 srcID files
# concatenated into one Excel workbooksoundDB
- Access data with minimal programming overhead
- Reader functions handle inconsistencies in data
- Data returned in highly manipulable structure
- Integrates with Python scientific computing tools
Metadata-driven
Use metadata to find sites that match some criteria
Load all their data with soundDB
Eventually: integrate with Metadata Database
Analyze
Questions
Would this be used?
By whom? On what data?
Are they really to learn Python, decently well?
Is it better as a standalone tool, or a programming language library?
Questions
soundDB
By Gabe Joseph
