Wednesday, March 8, 2017

Make a file with all dictionaries or go into datafile to make a dictionary?

We are timing the difference between 1. Making a file with the dictionaries or 2. Going into the master datafile(s) and making the appropriate dictionaries. This will help us determine which way we should approach the analysis.

I wrote a function to input a certain age and get all the individuals that are less/greater than that value depending on which the user wants. The two different ways get these individuals are going to analyzed. So far the time it takes to build the master dictionary file is >30 minutes but we would only have to do this every time we have an update that wanted to be analyzed or a different subset of the data. Stay tuned on the actual timing!