Tag Archives: tables

So, what am I going to do with this specimen list? (hint: Reshape2)

Posted on May 30, 2014 by cbahlai

All right, I’m finally back from all my travelling. I’ve seen many a strange thing in my travels. But now, back to reality.* It’s time for some data manipulation. Where we left off, we had a nice, clean specimen list, … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged bees, best practices, bug counting, coding tips, data, data manipulation, no seriously bees are everywhere, R, reshape, tables | 2 Comments

Guest post- About Style

Posted on February 24, 2014 by cbahlai

Things have been a bit crazy lately in the bug counting lab. There’s a few personnel moving on to new things, and I’m in a rush to get projects wrapped up with them before I’m no longer interacting with them … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged bees, best practices, data, guest post, quality control, spreadsheets, stats, style, tables | 1 Comment

Cleaning up your act: simple ways to find errors in your raw data

Posted on December 28, 2013 by cbahlai

It’s been an interesting week. We had a massive ice storm in the eastern Great Lakes area, trees and power lines were totaled, power was out everywhere- I didn’t have electricity for four days. Things, basically, are a disordered mess, … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged best practices, data, data cleaning, data hygiene, excel, large datasets, plots, quality control, R, real data, spreadsheets, tables | 9 Comments

Formatting your data tables for storage and re-use

Posted on December 18, 2013 by cbahlai

If you follow me on twitter, you probably know I’m compiling a huge dataset. I’ve used a variety of tools to work on these data (most notably reshape and OpenRefine), and now the data is in its cleanest form- a … Continue reading →