George Balto

UIUC M.S. student studying freshwater population assessment methods in the Stein/Sport Fish Ecology Lab (he/him)🏳️‍🌈

[George Balto @GbaltoUIUC]

@CoffeeandData Ah I see. Have yet to work with datasets that large so didn’t think of that. Thanks for the reply!

[George Balto @GbaltoUIUC]

Learning SQL and I’m a little confused of the point of it if I already know #dplyr (especially for analysis purposes)? Many job apps require “SQL experience”- is that synonymous to dplyr experience if said job is working exclusively in #rstats? #datascience

[Tessa Davis @TessaRDavis]

Of all the meeting platforms we've used over the last 2 years, Zoom is the one I love most.

Most of us think we know Zoom inside out.

But we don't.

Here are 7 Zoom hacks you probably haven't heard of, but you'll be glad you now know.

🧵👇

[Dr. Solomon David @SolomonRDavid]

Gars and EDM? Who’d have guessed?

Concert #GARtwork @boogietmusic! https://t.co/86WpZ6zebd
HT @GbaltoUIUC

[Coding Club @our_codingclub]

RMarkdown! Join us LIVE Wed 13th April 3-5pm UK Time on Zoom as we learn about #RMarkdown, its uses and how it can be used for reports and dissertations! Perfect for beginners and experienced #RStats users alike!

[Allison Horst @allison_horst]

.@brunj7 and I are excited to share the lterdatasampler R pkg! It contains environmental data samples from 8 US Long Term Ecological Research (@uslter) sites - eventually there will be 1 data sample from each of the 28 sites. https://t.co/FQI0HhCrx5 🧵1/12

[UIUC AFS Student Subunit @afs_uiuc]

Great day volunteering at Boneyard Creek Community Day! Our members helped clean up trash from the creek and provided educational outreach on fishes with @GEEBatUIUC 🐟🐠🎣

@cityofurbana @champaigncity @UofIllinois @AmFisheriesSoc

[Dr. Solomon David @SolomonRDavid]

JOIN US @TheGarLab!
We’re looking for a new graduate student (MS) to join the #GarLab Team starting Fall 2022!

Teaching assistantship/funding available: https://t.co/knBO6iGHFV

DM or email with questions. Review of applications begins now, deadline 4/15. Please share!

[George Balto @GbaltoUIUC]

Spent an entire summer tying off our boat with the string attached to our secchi…so rope

[Taylor Brown @TBrown_birds]

Field biologists: What is one of the most important everyday items (something you can buy from Walmart or home depot) that you use in your field work?

[Dr. Guy Prochilo 🏳️‍🌈 @GuyProchilo]

#Rstats: Copy data from Excel and paste it into R as a dataframe or tibble using datapasta:

install.packages("datapasta") -> set a useful keyboard paste shortcut

#phdchat

[George Balto @GbaltoUIUC]

Would love to have a main character moment by doing work on the quad/in a park but sitting in a sunny field with a laptop is madness and you can’t convince me otherwise

[Julie Claussen @julielovesfish]

Always tough to be the last presentation of a conference but no problem for @GbaltoUIUC - great talk on a new ways to think about sampling designs. Illinois Chapter @AmFisheriesSoc @afs_uiuc @SFEL_Stein

[George Balto @GbaltoUIUC]

“View(dataframe)” has been such a large chaotic part of my life until now

[American Fisheries Society @AmFisheriesSoc]

Did you know thousands of #fisheries reports, documents, and other gray literature are now available through the AFS Gray Literature Database? Accessible online, this is a freely available tool with full-text searchability for anyone to access: https://t.co/kfNh59Pgz1

[George Balto @GbaltoUIUC]

@SarahAMolinaro Bigboy and all of its variants are the backbone of my thesis, will have to put it in the acknowledgement section when I finish😅

[George Balto @GbaltoUIUC]

A really fun article I came across today. “Understanding the assumptions underlying a method is essential: it doesn’t just tell you when a method has drawbacks, it tells you how to fix them.” https://t.co/IeimkbWpGU

[George Balto @GbaltoUIUC]

Time will tell if my wildly inefficient R code will show inspiring resilience by how often I endured retyping everything or show several new levels of foolishness that the university didn’t know I had

[George Balto @GbaltoUIUC]

@Fish_Baetz @DearGradStudent Thanks for the advice/podcast recommendation👍. Today seems like a good day to start practicing a good work/life balance

[MaduroDive @MaduroDive]

ANGEL SHARK HUNTING by @felipe_ravina 🎥

It is always amazing to see these predators catching their prey, but it is not very usual to see them hunting while they are swimming, as they usually catch their prey while camouflated under the sand.

@eurodiverslanzarote @cristinacp86

[George Balto @GbaltoUIUC]

I put my name on the fourth row for presenter order so a couple people would go before me, but then everyone else signed up below me so I’m now I’m first. NGL this feels like a coordinated attack