Category Archives: Progress Reports

The Cladogram, Version 2

Posted on March 7, 2010 by Andy Farke

Thank you to everyone who commented on the first draft of the phylogeny. Based on all of this, I’ve updated the tree, incorporating most of what was recommended. As before, the rationale behind the topology is included at the end … Continue reading →

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Behold, The Mighty Cladogram

Posted on March 5, 2010 by Andy Farke

It’s taken awhile, but I finally put together a basic phylogeny to provide the evolutionary backbone for our phylogenetically-informed analyses. References (in very abbreviated format – we’ll have to flesh it out more for the paper) are given at the … Continue reading →

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Things to Do

Posted on March 4, 2010 by Andy Farke

We’re edging ever closer to a real, live analysis! In the meantime, there are four big tasks that remain for all of us: Double-check the taxonomic assignments of specimens, and make sure that they are up-to-date. Create a full listing … Continue reading →

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Combination Complete

Posted on February 27, 2010 by Andy Farke

A huge thank you to all of the volunteers who helped to organize multiple entries for individual specimens into a single combined entry. This was an unglamorous task, but an important one for subsequent analysis. We got 243 combined specimen … Continue reading →

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Home Stretch for Specimen Combinations

Posted on February 22, 2010 by Andy Farke

We’re on the home stretch for combining specimen data. . .I just updated the spreadsheet (accessible, as always, here); feel free to edit as appropriate to combine all of the final entries. Note that I have temporarily removed the already … Continue reading →

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Time to Get to Work

Posted on February 9, 2010 by Andy Farke

Thank you to everyone for an excellent discussion going on over at the previous post. It’s really helping to clarify a number of issues – and I appreciate all of the expertise being tossed in. This is what open science … Continue reading →

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What’s Next?

Posted on February 8, 2010 by Andy Farke

Thanks to the hard work of a number of individuals, our big old measurement spreadsheet is nearly complete. Almost all of the relevant entries have been verified (aside from a few stragglers), and we’re ready to get serious about data … Continue reading →

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The ODP on the ABC

Posted on February 3, 2010 by Andy Farke

The Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s radio show Future Tense is airing an episode later today on Open Science. It just so happens that I was interviewed about the Open Dinosaur Project for the program! Sadly, I can’t really tell you what … Continue reading →

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Wrapping Up Data Collection

Posted on February 2, 2010 by Andy Farke

Our original schedule specified the close of data collection on February 1. Well, today is the day! I don’t think we’ll hit that target precisely, but we are very close. Only 212 entries remain to be verified (including a large … Continue reading →

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New Year’s Update

Posted on January 2, 2010 by Andy Farke

With the holidays, things have been a little quiet on the ODP front. But, work chugs on behind the scenes. We now have over 1,500 verified entries! There are 155 unverified entries in the queue – if anyone is bored, … Continue reading →

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