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DeerDaysExpert
posts: 42
Administrator | | 7. Re:best times to hunt 10/04/2006 7:34 PM |   | Brent wrote:| | How often do you update these "database definitions"? |
When we feel like we have enough data to improve our predictions. We are hoping to get a huge amount of info so we can finish our DeerDays Time Calculator.
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| Brent
Location: AR
posts: 33
Gold Member | | 6. Re:best times to hunt 10/04/2006 10:40 AM | | How often do you update these "database definitions"? |
got em! |
| DeerDaysBiologist
posts: 10
Administrator | | 5. Re:best times to hunt 10/03/2006 4:39 PM | | Brent wrote:| | Ok.. So let me get this straight, You guys have created a program that you can give to deer hunters so they can log data, and then you take there data from the "Deer Data Form" somehow, and collectively compile there data and create predictions from that? Because thats geinus. | | That’s basically the idea. |
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| Brent
Location: AR
posts: 33
Gold Member | | 4. Re:best times to hunt 10/03/2006 3:56 PM | | Ok.. So let me get this straight, You guys have created a program that you can give to deer hunters so they can log data, and then you take there data from the "Deer Data Form" somehow, and collectively compile there data and create predictions from that? Because thats geinus. |
got em! |
| coldbeer
Location: AR
posts: 76
Gold Member | | 3. Re:best times to hunt 10/03/2006 1:23 PM | | I cant wait for that to come out. |
They can have my bow when they pry it from my cold dead fingers! |
| DeerDaysBiologist
posts: 10
Administrator | | 2. Re:best times to hunt 10/03/2006 10:02 AM | | The "About DeerDays" explains it pretty good. It reads as follows:
The Deer Days Calculator predicts whitetail deer (odocoileus virginianus)
movement (or lack of movement) on a given day to the point in which you
would most likely see or not see deer on that given day, during the
daylight hours. The Deer Days Calculator proprietary formula is based
on an Evidence Based Resource Database (EBRD) that has been collected
and developed over the last 30 years. The Deer Days calculator, at this
time, is not the “be all, end all” of the deer movement predictors, but
simply a work-in-progress tool intended to be used for the betterment
of the hunter, and will continue to improve over time with the
expansion of the Deer Days’ EBRD.
So basically the more data we have the better we can predict. What we do at DeerDays is harvest the "Deer Data Form" information from the DeerDays software, extract any odd or extremely high or low data, and update our database definitions.
By expanding our database (the more people we have gathering information, the more accurate our perdiction formulas become) we improve our algorithms.
As for the best times of the day to hunt, we are working on a DeerDays Time Calculator. We need a lot more information to finish the algorithms. There are some time predictions out there but most are based on either moon or fishing data. I have found these to have limited accuracy. All of our predictions are based on a large database trends for normal criteria (excluding other limiting factors such as hunting pressure, weather, preditors, etc.).
By the way, judging by your photos, looks like you have some good bucks in the making!
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| waffler280
Location: PA
posts: 1
Member | | 1. best times to hunt 10/03/2006 8:25 AM | | | how are the red vs green days determined and is can it be shown what is the optimal time of day to hunt even if it is as general as am/pm |
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