Stats Beerz

This is an informal get-together of SFU ecologists and statisticians to bounce around ideas on graphing, coding and statistics; from ANOVAs to Z-scores.

[jebyrnes (he/him) @jebyrnes]

Oh! Digitiz and orthrectify hand-drawn maps in #rstats? Thank you, mapscanner package! https://t.co/qisQCTMu41

[Jess Edwards (she/her) @sciforthepeople]

Have you registered yet?!

[Earth2Ocean Science @E2ocean]

Making beautiful figures? Struggling with colour choice? Look no further:

[Nicholas Dulvy @NickDulvy]

@E2ocean @statsbeerz

[Nicholas Dulvy @NickDulvy]

@E2ocean @statsbeerz

[Natalie Pilakouta @NPilakouta]

I was recently asked to give a stats talk in my department on how to analyse zero-inflated count data, which is a common problem in ecology (and especially behavioural ecology). I came up with this flowchart and thought I'd share it in case it's useful for any of you #rstats

[rick @RichardALevy]

In effort to standardize data, add ecological context to specimens, & bring consistency across projects, @botanic made custom field books for 2018 season. Complete w/ pages for ecological site descriptions, all terms are defined in partnering #metadata dictionary @SpnhcTdwgNZ

[NCEAS @ucsb_nceas]

What's key to a successful technical team for a project that synthesizes and analyzes loads of environmental #data w/ #openscience tools? Our own @juliesquid of @OHIscience shares her insight & experience w/@OceanHealthIndx https://t.co/qod6y2jfhm #rstats @RLadiesGlobal

[Jenny Bryan @JennyBryan]

How to start contributing to #rstats packages? Here’s a great write-up of why and how @dobbleobble worked with maintainer @ma_salmon to add functionality to monkeylearn. https://t.co/DEhAcUL7Fb

[Nicholas Dulvy @NickDulvy]

@E2ocean @statsbeerz https://t.co/4Bea8Ieytj

[Methods in Ecology and Evolution @MethodsEcolEvol]

Do you want your #Research to last longer and have a broader reach? Make it easier to include in a #MetaAnalysis! @GerstnerK explains how to do just that: https://t.co/hK1rz7rmHf

This article was shortlisted for the 2017 #RobertMayPrize

[Nick Strayer @NicholasStrayer]

Finally got around to writing up a tutorial for my new #rstats 3d network #Datavisualization & layout library: network3d. Uses #javascript to display and calculate layouts for large networks interactively. The only dependency is htmlwidgets. Try it out! https://t.co/PjKkwe84EO

[Jillian Dunic @jdunic]

Stumbled on this great monthly column on stats targeted at biologists. Looks good for teaching too! https://t.co/LmhgazAw86 #rstats

[Trevor Branch (moved to Bluesky) @TrevorABranch]

What are the key classic papers of science that grad students of many fields should read?
To start off, how about:

Hurlbert (1984) Pseudoreplication

Hardin (1968) Tragedy of commons

Chamberlin (1965) multiple working hypotheses

[Mara Averick @dataandme]

📉🎞 head-to-head, w/ code:
"gganimate vs. plotly - Which is better at animation?" by @BManalyst https://t.co/UIlCaNQfOD #rstats #dataviz #tweenr

[Plotly @plotlygraphs]

Upcoming webinar by @WestGrid / @ComputeCanada 🇨🇦
"3d Scientific visualization with Plotly & Python" Wed, 28 March
https://t.co/o6t5hQFzwj

[Jillian Dunic @jdunic]

Want to improve your data viz skills? Check out this awesome series of one pagers on best practices to get effectively tell a story with your data https://t.co/9Mwbz5WjAM thanks for the awesome workshop @MKrzywinski

[Melissa Orobko (they/them) @Melissa_Orobko]

Good to realize / keep in mind during study design: https://t.co/m5y1nlLEI2

[Richard Johnston @johnstongonzal]

Care your ink/data ratio, Do not abuse the rainbow! 🌈, and forget pies @TrevorABranch graphics workshop @SFUBiology @SFU_GradStudies @statsbeerz

[Stats Beerz @statsbeerz]

Great discussion wit lots of interesting insights! https://t.co/rlg3LdgUfT

[Andrew MacDonald 🌈 @polesasunder]

OK twitter, what's your opinions on the PCA-axis-as-new-variable approach? ie
1. Collect many correlated variables
2. do PCA
3. interpret the first few axes as being about something specific
4. use those axes in a multiple regression
#rstats #ecology