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The Data panel

Module by: Joseph Grimes. E-mail the author

Summary: The data you will analyze appear on the Data panel. It provides means to type in new data, including a convenient way of handling IPA phonetic characters, and to edit data already entered. Along with the Data panel, the File menu gives you a way to back up the data and analysis in your collection at any time, and to import electronic data from elsewhere, including from spreadsheets.

Figure 1: The Wordcorr Data panel
Figure 1 (DataPanel.jpg)

The Data panel is one of the seven action panels you can select by clicking on the tabs at the top of the Wordcorr display. It is where you type in and edit the word lists that contain the raw language data you plan to compare.

The upper part of the Data panel has to do with managing entries, which contain words that mean approximately the same thing (like words for "canoe") in all the speech varieties in the collection. The lower part has to do with managing the individual data items for each variety.

Note:

For linguists, "data" is a plural count noun, as in "the data are correct," with "datum" as its singular, as in "one datum is missing." For computer people, "data" is a singular mass noun, as in "the data is correct," with "datum" as the corresponding singular count noun and "datums" as the plural count noun for several pieces of data. Moral: it pays to be bilingual.

So the buttons in the upper rows let you work with entries:

  • Add: start a new entry at the end of the entry list, with obligatory primary gloss and optional secondary gloss
  • Delete Entry: delete the entry currently selected; in Figure 1, it's entry number 3 for "root"
  • Missing Data Check: tell whether any varieties, including the ones you can't see in the display in the lower right, are still not represented by data
  • Previous: make the previous entry in the entry list on the left the current entry
  • Next: make the following entry in the entry list on the left the current entry
  • Find Gloss: find an entry by locating its primary gloss if you can't see it on the entry list

The buttons in the middle right of the panel let you add and edit a datum for a specific variety:

  • Add Datum: select a variety and type in a datum for it
  • Edit Datum: select a variety and edit the datum already there

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