You asked.... we listened!
It's the last day of biodiversity month!
To celebrate, we've visualised all the plant observations added to the ALA in 2024. ๐ฟ๐ชป
Flowering plants have hit everyone else out of the park! ๐ธโพ๏ธ
#rstats#dataviz
Despite providing 5% of @GBIF's global observations, the ALA's research impact is greater than it seems...๐ง๐ผโ๐ฌ๐งซ
New @UNSW research finds the ALA has supported > 9,000 authors & 2,406 scientific publications (to 2023). 63% are open-access!
๐๐: https://t.co/FxJIkzFE3Y
Wow now David Keith wins the #EurekaPrize for Botanical Science. A great night for Australian ecological research.
โLong live botany, long live ecology!โ
๐ Have you checked out ALA's new book Cleaning Biodiversity Data in R?
This hand resource will make sure you're using brains ๐ง not prawn ๐ฆ to get through your data cleaning tasks!
๐ https://t.co/1WXguuSJpW
@daxkellie @fonti_kar @ShandiyaB
๐ฆ galah 2.0.2 is now on #CRAN!
We've made LOTS of ๐ bug fixes & added experimental features like:
โช๏ธ Download records using a point radius (see ๐)
โช๏ธ Use galah_geolocate() with GBIF + other Atlases
โช๏ธ Improved atlas_species()
See updates:๐ https://t.co/WUF8aqmM8j
#rstats
Our R package `galah` version 2.0.0 is on our GitHub page now; feel free to give it a spin before it goes to CRAN!
Repo: https://t.co/QcYBvcPrmT...
Docs: https://t.co/XT8jVgk8nr
Open-science practices don't (all) require big investments of time and effort. This great post by @daxkellie and @westgatecology introduces small and achievable steps to improve R code reproducibility that can have a big impact https://t.co/8XBc5Ifl3b
@fonti_kar@atlaslivingaust @daxkellie @ShandiyaB Thanks so much for joining us this last year, Fonti! It's been wonderful having you on the team, and you'll be greatly missed. Best of luck with the next job and don't be a stranger!
We've just released the FrogID dataset 4.0. Almost ๐๐๐ก๐ ๐ ๐ข๐๐ก๐ก๐๐ค๐ฃ #frog records. Thatโs more than double all other frog records gathered since @FrogIDAus launched in 2017. Created by over 23,000 people recording #frogs across #Australia. ๐ธ๐
https://t.co/kDJFiBHg29
@Mikey_Whitehead Just throwing out there that this could be related to the order in which points are added to the plot; I.e. biological fx, sampling fx and software fx all happening at once.
Itโs a lovely piece though, seriously thinking of putting this on my wall
I love this #dataviz for a few different reasons!
1. How interesting the general spatila patterns in plumage trends (South-East redder, North green/yellow, West pinker etc). Is it adaptive?
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Has anyone ever studied this?
@BirdlifeOz @D0CT0R_Dave @Twitchathon
In the world of #dataviz sometimes art meets science! ๐๐ฉโ๐ฌ
We plotted parrot data in the ALA to celebrate #WorldParrotDay ๐ฆ using the dominant plumage shades for each genus ๐ and created some accidental art in the process!
Watch out Monet โ๐จ @accidental_aRt#rstats#Rtistry
@TroveAustralia Ok, thanks @TroveAustralia! I wonder why? Mostly Python users perhaps?
Anyway, the new API docs look great, looking forward to checking it out :)