Martin Westgate

Australian ecologist | Scientific software developer (#rstats) | Occasional frogger

[Martin Westgate @rowdy_nerd]

Dawn over Canberra

[Martin Westgate @rowdy_nerd]

Early flight to Melbs for the OceaniaR hackathon!! Gonna be a good day 🧑‍💻

[Atlas of Living Aust @atlaslivingaust]

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. 🌿🪻

Flowering plants have hit everyone else out of the park! 🌸⚾️

#rstats #dataviz

[Atlas of Living Aust @atlaslivingaust]

Despite providing 5% of @GBIF's global observations, the ALA's research impact is greater than it seems...🧑🏼‍🔬🧫

New @UNSW research finds the ALA has supported > 9,000 authors & 2,406 scientific publications (to 2023). 63% are open-access!

🔗📚: https://t.co/FxJIkzFE3Y

[Martin Westgate @rowdy_nerd]

Wow now David Keith wins the #EurekaPrize for Botanical Science. A great night for Australian ecological research.

“Long live botany, long live ecology!”

[Martin Westgate @rowdy_nerd]

Amazing to see @EuanRitchie1 recognised with the 2024 @eurekaprizes for promoting understanding of science. So well deserved, what a legend!

[Atlas of Living Aust @atlaslivingaust]

🔎 Have you checked out ALA's new book Cleaning Biodiversity Data in R?

This hand resource will make sure you're using brains 🧠 not prawn 🦐 to get through your data cleaning tasks!

🔗 https://t.co/1WXguuSJpW
@daxkellie @fonti_kar @ShandiyaB

[Atlas of Living Aust @atlaslivingaust]

📦 galah 2.0.2 is now on #CRAN!

We've made LOTS of 🐞 bug fixes & added experimental features like:
▪️ Download records using a point radius (see 👇)
▪️ Use galah_geolocate() with GBIF + other Atlases
▪️ Improved atlas_species()

See updates:🔗 https://t.co/WUF8aqmM8j
#rstats

[Atlas of Living Aust @atlaslivingaust]

galah 2.0.0 takes flight on CRAN! 🐦 #Rstats
New features:
✅dplyr syntax
✅Transparent query building
✅Faster parsing
✅Use `%in%`, `!`, `is. na()`
✅New advanced vignette series

🔗Changes: https://t.co/dmJ95Dic22
🔗More info: https://t.co/b5xmXg3PvE
@daxkellie @westgatecology

[Martin Westgate @rowdy_nerd]

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

[Matthew Grainger @Ed_pheasant]

Remember to get your application in for ESH2023. Details👇! #EvidenceSynthesis #Hackathon #R

[NatureEcoEvo @NatureEcoEvo]

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

[Martin Westgate @rowdy_nerd]

Checking out the other place

https://t.co/0IgvNTuZ2r

[Martin Westgate @rowdy_nerd]

@daxkellie @ShandiyaB @EcolSocAus So *that’s* where everyone went! 🧐 I thought the office was quiet today…

[Martin Westgate @rowdy_nerd]

@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!

[Jodi Rowley @jodirowley]

We've just released the FrogID dataset 4.0. Almost 𝙝𝙖𝙡𝙛 𝙖 𝙢𝙞𝙡𝙡𝙞𝙤𝙣 #frog records. That’s more than double all other frog records gathered since @FrogIDAus launched in 2017. Created by over 23,000 people recording #frogs across #Australia. 🐸💚

https://t.co/kDJFiBHg29

[Martin Westgate @rowdy_nerd]

@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.

It’s a lovely piece though, seriously thinking of putting this on my wall

[Holly Kirk (@hollykirk .bluesky.social) @HollyKirk]

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?
🤔
Has anyone ever studied this?
@BirdlifeOz @D0CT0R_Dave @Twitchathon

[Atlas of Living Aust @atlaslivingaust]

In the world of #dataviz sometimes art meets science! 🖌👩‍🔬

We plotted parrot data in the ALA to celebrate #WorldParrotDay 🦜 using the dominant plumage shades for each genus 🌈 and created some accidental art in the process!

Watch out Monet ‍🎨 @accidental_aRt
#rstats #Rtistry

[Martin Westgate @rowdy_nerd]

@TroveAustralia Ok, thanks @TroveAustralia! I wonder why? Mostly Python users perhaps?

Anyway, the new API docs look great, looking forward to checking it out :)

[Martin Westgate @rowdy_nerd]

Ok random question: is there an R package for accessing the @TroveAustralia API? Surely there must be, right?! #rstats