Joining by Nearby Dates
I’ve been wrestling with ideas for how to standardize sampling dates for a while now. The data sets I’m working with have fairly regular sampling intervals, but sometimes they aren’t sampled on the same day - and this drives me crazy.
Threatened Plants #TidyTuesday
It’s Tidy Tuesday!! This week the focus is threatened and extinct plants. Certainly an issue worth thinking about. I’m a bit of a plant person, but really who isn’t? Let’s dive in!
Making Maps with Leaflet in R
I’ve been searching for a way to interactively display some geospatial data. After trying out a few things I found {leaflet} - so easy and beautiful! I started out reading this excellent primer, then got to work with specific examples.
Weapons of Math Destruction
Earlier this summer I got an email about reading groups for grad students hosted by the department of cell and molecular biology. Who wasn’t hungry for a reading group this summer?
USGS Data Retrieval
It took me a few times to get this right - the interface of the USGS website is a rabbit hole of buttons and options for data retrieval. It’s not so hard to get the data you’re interested in, but pay close attention because it’s easy to do the wrong thing.
Mining Data from California's Geotracker Database
Geotracker is a public database that is used to store environmental data from regulated sites in California. I’m going to download some data of a contaminated site and clean it up to try to derive some insights about the site.
Accessing Historical Weather Data with Dark Sky API
In my IoT class last year with Jay Ham we used a website called Dark Sky to get current weather conditions. I’ve been thinking about this recently, since I would like to see if I can match up weather conditions to the changes in the depth to water of wells at a site.
Tidy Tuesday - African American History
If you’re not familiar with Tidy Tuesday, it is a weekly project hosted online by the R for data science community. Every Tuesday a new dataset is released and people are encouraged to explore, analyse, and visualize it in interesting ways.
