Setting a roadmap for the development of the population graphs family of analyses.

One of the few annoying things I find with dplyr lately is the addition of an experimental option where if you use something like, group_by(X) %>% summarize( Val = mean(Y)) it gives you an error message with something like.

Here are some data resources that have been compiled across several teaching sessions.

For this year, due to COVID, we are forced to conduct our graduation ceremony virtually. Here is the product, it turned out GREAT. Thank you to all the ENVS staff, facutly, and students for a great event.

I’m working on getting the Graduation Ceremony stuff recorded for the Center for Environmental Studies Graduation Ceremony for Fall 2020. It is going to be a zoom-based thing and I would like to put together something that is a bit more polished than just a crappy thing.

The short answer is “hell ya”.

There are times when we need to scrape some data from a website to use in our analyses. In a perfect world, the provider of the data would provide a csv or json download but let’s face it… we do not live in a perfect world and often data that is posted to the internet is done by people who really do not care about subseqent use by others (else they would have made it easy to use rather than just showing it).