Clarify descriptions of --normalize-by-specimen flag functionality in scripts/classif_rect.py

[cmccoy]

The functionality in question is much easier to understand if "normalized tally" for a specimen is described as the "frequency" of some taxon for that specimen. As such, the "normalized_tally" output in by_taxon can be described as an "average_frequency".

[metasoarous]

I've realized this functionality was only in the the three-study branch, so will be merging this in as part of this ticket as well.

[metasoarous]

This task ballooned a bit into a bit of an overhaul for increased consistency and ease of understanding what the output/input options are. See branch 312-classif-rect-average-frequency for the current status.

@nhoffman - There are a few other things we chatted about that would be nice, but these might have to wait. I can open up separate ticket(s) for those though.

[nhoffman]

@metasoarous - thanks for this - is this ready for a pull request? I'm updating the pipeline (depends on changes already in dev) and it would be nice to start using this. If not, no problem - I can always grab the script and use it standalone.

[metasoarous]

@matsen - Noah and I just chatted about this. While these changes are ready to be merged, they are breaking changes. Since we've also renamed the script (as classif_table.py), we're wondering if it doesn't make sense to leave the old script in and deprecate it with a warning that the script will be removed eventually. What do you think?

[matsen]

Sounds great!

On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 1:40 PM, Christopher Small <notifications@github.com

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@matsen https://github.com/matsen - Noah and I just chatted about this.
While these changes are ready to be merged, they are breaking changes.
Since we've also renamed the script (as classif_table.py), we're
wondering if it doesn't make sense to leave the old script in and deprecate
it with a warning that the script will be removed eventually. What do you
think?

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[metasoarous]

Good to merge?

[matsen]

@nhoffman shall I just click on the big green button?

[nhoffman]

Yes!

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@nhoffman https://github.com/nhoffman shall I just click on the big
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