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pond survey anyone?
Hi,
I've been reading this newsgroup off and on and without a doubt there are many ways to solve all sorts of problems. In fact, there seems to be more knowledge in this news group than in any of my local pond stores. On the other hand, the knowledge in this news group is sometimes contradictory and sometimes vague; what works in one pond doesn't always work in another. For example, when people complain about algae one response is "shade the pond", yet some ponds are in full sun all day and the water is clear. Or people suggest putting in water hyacinth but the plants turn yellow, no matter what chemicals are added to the pond. So there's a lot of knowledge here but it's not complete. I'd like to fill in some of the gaps and find out what consistently works across a lot of ponds. My idea is to have people describe, with a lot of detail, what their pond is like and what does or doesn't work for them. This would be done with a survey that asked about pond size, shape, fish and plant load, filter type, maintenance, and as much as we can think of. This info is put in a data base. After we have a few hundred ponds described some form of statistical pattern recognition, or data mining, is applied to the data to look for some rules of thumb that aren't commonly known. We could than put the results in a faq. If this sounds interesting and you'd like to help, let me know. I can write software to create surveys and data bases, but a few people should think about the questions. Also, I haven't done much with data mining and I can figure out enough to get it to work but if you have experience, let me know. Thanks, Matt btw, remove NOSPAM from the return address to get something that works. |
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