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Organizing your data

PhycoSight’s organizational track describes data by its provenance — where it came from, when, and as part of what effort.

Samples, frames, and particles

A is one acquisition run from an instrument. It contains s (the individual images) and the

s detected within them — the atomic unit of analysis, each carrying crop images, measured features, and labels.

Samples are created at upload time. You don’t need to file them anywhere first; organizing them comes later.

Series

A ties together samples that share a physical origin or experimental context — usually a time series, like “Reactor A — Weekly Sampling” or “Station 3 — Western Basin.” A sample can belong to more than one series.

Campaigns

A is the top-level umbrella for a bounded effort: a monitoring program, an experiment, a production run. It groups series; a series can sit in several campaigns. A campaign doesn’t hold samples directly — a sample is “in” a campaign through its series.

When to use each

Series vs Campaign. A series is one origin observed over time (one reactor, one station). A campaign is the larger purpose that several series serve (a whole monitoring season across many stations). Reach for a series when samples share a source; reach for a campaign when you’re grouping efforts.

Note that a series (grouped by where data came from) is different from a Collection (grouped by what the particles are).

Quick start

  1. Upload or locate your s.
  2. Create a and add the samples that share an origin.
  3. Group related series under a for the overall effort.