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A Look Inside the Data: OCR Process and Challenging Tables

April 21, 2021 Kenneth Cotich

I would like to share a table in the California Water Documents Collection that was difficult to OCR. In previous…

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Summary of the Datasets Presentation at the 2021 Western Water Symposium

April 14, 2021 Kenneth Cotich

The Bending Water Project was recently featured during the 2021 Western Water Symposium presented by the Claremont Colleges Library. Jeanine…

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A Look Inside the Data: The OCR Process and Tables in CWD

February 17, 2021 Kenneth Cotich

I intend to describe how I converted a table from the California Water Documents digital collection into an Excel spreadsheet.…

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A Look Inside the Data: Metropolitan Aqueduct Press Release, 1930

December 21, 2020 Kenneth Cotich

Today’s example of data comes in the form of a press release from 1930. The majority of the page is…

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A Look Inside the Data: 1922 Map of Riverside and San Diego Counties

December 9, 2020 Kenneth Cotich

Today’s example of data is an oversized map from Report on the water resources of the Temecula and Santa Margarita…

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A Look Inside the Data: Irrigated Crops Statistical Information

December 3, 2020 Kenneth Cotich

Today’s blog features a small table from Report on Irrigation Districts in California for the Year 1941. The table provides…

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A Look Inside the Data: Daily Precipitation Record

November 2, 2020 Kenneth Cotich

Today’s dataset is from Chapter 4, part 8 of the Report of Sacramento-San Joaquin Water Supervision for year 1941. Table…

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A Look Inside The Data: Sacramento Saltwater Observations

September 30, 2020 Kenneth Cotich

Hello and welcome back to another post on The Deluge!  I wanted to write about salinity observations along the Sacramento and…

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A Look Inside the Data: Decreased Water Flow in California

September 16, 2020 Kenneth Cotich

Hello and welcome back to The Deluge!   Today’s dataset is a table from Chapter 1 of the Report of Sacramento-San Joaquin Water Supervisions…

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A Look Inside the Data: The Vail Company

August 27, 2020 Kenneth Cotich

Welcome to another installment of The Deluge!  I wanted to blog today about an interesting report I came across in…

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Deluge

noun

1 : A great flood or overflowing of water.

2 : An overwhelming amount or number.

 

About The Deluge: The blog is run by Kenneth Cotich, whose role as the Bending Water project’s data review specialist involves an in-depth review of the data found in the California Water Documents. His blog posts focus on the unique maps, charts, and tables he finds in this collection.

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