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• • • Convert *.xlsx file to *.csv using conversion API so that you can see the content of the file on the VM. We are not installing any office software on the VM.
    • use extraction API to extract columns from the file and
    • Perform some analysis and add to the technical metadata
    •  Write an extractor/converter for this problem
      • This should be an enticing yet simple problem that can handle many spreadsheets and get a result.
      • Ideas
        1. An algebra 101, traveling trains problem.  2 trains leave 2 different stations on tracks heading toward a junction.  Given a spreadsheet with departure times, distances, velocities, etc., upload all the spreadsheets and determine if they will crash.
           1. This problem is simple and would provide the user an easily understood problem that can clearly be scaled to much more involved traffic problems.  
           2. However, it doesn't really present a cool new idea.  It may be preferable to think of something more cutting edge technology
        2. A bacterial growth model.  Given a culture with varied conditions, eg. pH, stored in multiple spreadsheets, determine the growth rate.  Might be able to base this on http://mathinsight.org/bacteria_growth_initial_model
           1. This would require a few minutes of explanation of the model and would require some learning by the developer of the extractor.
           2. Still maybe not that enticing.
        3. Better Ideas?
                        
  • CSV files (Ameriflux), use BD for some gap-filing on the files and return result.
    
    
  • Problem 5: Obtaining Ameriflux data and converting into *.clim format (similar to csv format but tab separated) for SNIPET model.  Calculate average air temperature and its standard deviation. (This will emphasize both conversion and analysis)
    
    
  • Think of a MATLAB client 
    
    
  • Want to build a Web application on top of BD, (Similar to what Marcus build??)
    
    
  • Use BD convert to convert a collection of images with old format to png or pdf. convert odp/odt to ppt/doc

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