Tag: technology
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I’ve been streamlining legacy data sets the past week or so, such as daily min/max temperatures recorded on Tumamoc Hill from roughly 1906 to 1995, but with a lot of missing data, and some errors caused by faulty readings. If it were a complete set of daily readings over that time, it would be more…
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The past couple of weeks have involved some steep learning curves. For one project, I’m running analyses in RevBayes, a very powerful Bayesian platform for doing all sorts of things related to phylogenetics. The two analyses I’m running are a divergence time estimate, and an ancestral biogeography, in a script that simultaneously infers the phylogeny…
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One thing that I have learned repeatedly over the past 11 years or so, which of course I already knew, is that there’s always new skills to learn. Steepest learning curve of my early Ph.D. process was definitely the R programming language. I ended up doing maybe 80% of the data analysis for the dissertation…