Thoughts on WALTA data analysis

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Thoughts on WALTA data analysis

• How do we make the data accessible to the sort of
  exploration that we want the student to learn to
  do?
• Approaches
• Menu, clicking approach from the FNAL GRID guys.
• Download, build, and run Ricks Linux programs
• Build special interfaces to import to Excel.
• qnet2text program
• Excel facility in the QNET2 LabVIEW program
• J. Wilkess selection and histogramming
  techniques.
• All have advantages and drawbacks
• Best approach would combine ease-of-use
  (immediate results) with flexibility (allowing
  what-if exploration)
• We really need a coherent, consistent, supported
  strategy!
• (or, why are we here?)