I’m getting ready to release Anthropomotron 1.5 so I’m taking care of the little details like making sure the internal software is up to date. I saw that since last time, Phonegap has jumped up a few version numbers so I made a goal of running my app with the… Read more“Slow and Steady Upgrades Win the Race”
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I Solve Puzzles in My Spare Time
The Robbins and colleagues paper (2010) has an extremely detailed description of the intended use of their mass estimation formulae. One particular note became an unexpected challenge when I was adding their method to Anthropomotron. There are different formulae to use depending on the estimated age of the individual. Each… Read more“I Solve Puzzles in My Spare Time”
Anthropomotron Day 36 (Already?!)
I’ve been working on the body mass estimation part of Anthropomotron. I got a few things done off of my to-do list and then I got an email from a researcher a paper she and her colleagues wrote on estimating body mass. Surely their paper is on the list… nope!… Read more“Anthropomotron Day 36 (Already?!)”
Statistical Trick of the Day
Did you know that you can combine two standard deviations? If the sample sizes of the two groups are equal, you don’t even need them! Just square the standard deviations to get variances, average them, and take the square root to turn the value back into an SD. If sample… Read more“Statistical Trick of the Day”
Day 21: Baby Steps
I just came back from San Diego and work is a bit computer-heavy at the moment so I wanted to ease myself into working on Anthropomotron. I completed one of the easiest changes in my list: Ruff et. al (2005) equations replace Ruff et. al (1997) ones for body mass… Read more“Day 21: Baby Steps”
Day 11: Proposed Anthropomotron Additions List
Work on Anthropomotron since day 2 has focused mostly on the planning stages. Based on literature review and input from fellow scholars, this is my list of planned additions to the body mass and stature estimation sections, straight from my electronic notebook. I made a few notes to remind myself… Read more“Day 11: Proposed Anthropomotron Additions List”
Day 2
Second day of working on Anthropomotron: spent four hours upgrading PhoneGap, the underpinnings of the app, from 1.8.0 to 2.2.0 (enough changes have been made from version to version that I have to inch up by tenths of version numbers). Ran into some difficulty but made a breakthrough so I… Read more“Day 2”
Next: Anthropomotron 2.0!
I’ve worked out a routine where I have one major project that I work on for fun, along with various smaller projects that I do to fill in the gaps of my time. Earlier this year the project was to get Anthropomotron into the App Store. When that was done… Read more“Next: Anthropomotron 2.0!”
Speaking of A Thousand…
Anthropomotron has been downloaded over 1000 times in the App Store! I never thought that it would get so much attention, or that I would get the wonderful feedback that I’ve received. In January I will start working on the next version to add more cool stuff and keep it… Read more“Speaking of A Thousand…”
A Little Bit of This, A Little Bit of That
Here’s what has been going on recently. Anthropomotron has been a greater success than I had anticipated! I’ve heard a lot of good feedback about features to add in the next version. My post about the app on the Bioanthropology News Facebook group received a lot of comments and likes…. Read more“A Little Bit of This, A Little Bit of That”