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COVID-19 pushed me to try something new in my classroom, and I loved it!
teaching
r
rmarkdown
In March…
Hacking GLMs to fit population growth models
r
I’m currently teaching Ecological Statistics and Data, a class I inherited from Lee Brown and Elizabeth Crone. In a lecture on population dynamics, they do some really cool things with generalized linear model—things that I don’t think are standard practice and as far as I can tell…
Cupcakes vs Muffins: Round 2
data-science
multivariate-statistics
Have you ever pondered whether a muffin is really a…
Finding Cryptic Insect Eggs With Fluorescence
fieldwork
leafhoppers
tea
I recently gave a talk on some of my work as a PhD student on experiments manipulating densities of the tea green leafhopper (Empoasca onukii) on tea plants. What the audience liked most, I think, were my methods for finding leafhopper eggs in the field and rearing them in the lab (well, a guest room at a tea…
Retrieve chemical retention indices from NIST with {webchem}!
data-science
data-wrangling
r
webscraping
GC/MS
My PhD has involved learning a lot more than I expected about analytical…
Cupcake Update
data-science
multivariate-statistics
I know you’re all waiting on the edge of your seats for an update on the cupcakes vs. muffins data science project, but…
Cupcakes vs. Muffins
data-science
regexp
r
multivariate-statistics
data-wrangling
webscraping
One thing I’ve learned from my PhD at Tufts is that I really enjoy working data wrangling, visualization, and statistics in R. I enjoy it so much, that lately I’ve been…
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