[Taxacom] Taxacom Digest, Vol 119, Issue 8

[Stoner, Dan]

Hi Kenneth,

> This "tree" needs a lot of work

Are your comments about the visualization itself or the underlying source data (in this case, Catalogue of Life)?

Thanks,

Dan Stoner
iDigBio / ACIS Laboratory
University of Florida



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Date: Sun, 21 Feb 2016 08:41:56 +0100
From: rch <rch at skynet.be>
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Subject: [Taxacom] Catalog of Life Taxonomic Tree
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    Have you seen the remarkable
    Catalog of Life Taxonomic Tree  ?
        http://taxontree.bpodgursky.com/

    Brief explanation at
        http://bpodgursky.com/2016/02/20/catalog-of-life-taxonomic-tree/

    Found thanks to this morning's Hackers News
    «Complete tree of life visualization using d3 and Catalog of Life»

     Richard H



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Date: Sun, 21 Feb 2016 09:56:47 -0600
From: Kenneth Kinman <kinman at hotmail.com>
To: "taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu" <taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu>
Subject: Re: [Taxacom] Catalog of Life Taxonomic Tree
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Hi all,                  I can't say that I would recommend this so-called "tree".  It is not only incomplete, but it is not really a tree (just a series of interconnected bushes).
       The most noticeable is the omission of a lot of photosynthetic phyla, such as Chlorophyta and Rhodophyta, and especially most taxa in Kingdom Chromista (where are the diatoms, phaeophytes, xanthophytes, chrysophytes, etc.).  This "tree" needs a lot of work.
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