About the bug counter
Hi! I'm Christie and I'm a computational ecologist and professor. I am an #otherpeoplesdata wrangler, stats enthusiast, and, of course, a bug counter. I cohabitate with five other vertebrates: one spouse, one spirited grade schooler, one energetic preschooler and two cats. You can find out more about the kind of work I do at my research website.
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Tag Archives: orphaned data
Spreading the open science love like it’s my job because it is my job.
So, this happened. Apparently, yelling into the void about data management and reproducibility is a very good way to get yourself onto a rag-tag team of open-science proto-superheroes.1 Yes, that’s right, I’m a Mozilla Science fellow, and together, baby, we’re … Continue reading →
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Tagged best practices, data, Data Carpentry, data cleaning, data formatting, data hygiene, data manipulation, entomology, impending disaster, meta, motivations, open science, orphaned data
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Dispatches from the field: scattered thoughts edition
-When the bugs you’re hoping to count don’t show up for your field experiment, that sucks. But it’s also data that says maybe you’re not asking a question that’s relevant to the system. And maybe there’s other questions you need … Continue reading →
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Tagged bug counting, butterflies, data, entomology, getting on a soapbox, impending disaster, ladybugs, meta, motivations, orphaned data
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Practical Data Management for Bug Counters 