Thinking of Offsetting Your Carbon? Good Luck! Here’s Your (Not So Simple) Checklist for Success

As an Environmental Scientist (not to mention the partner of a climate scientist!), I've wanted to write a post on the subject of carbon offsets for a very long time, even though it's not technically in the purview of my current position as the quantitative ecologist for a research center studying invasive species. After seeing …

Thinking Inside the Polygon: Using R to do complex spatial analyses on lakes with strange shapes reproducibly!

For this post, check out the HTML I've produced using R Markdown, linked to below over on RPubs! Click here to check out my post! Click here to watch my presentation on this topic at the University of Minnesota's Day of Data event! My talk begins at 1 hour, 30 minutes, and 15 seconds in. …

The Best is Yet to Come: An Intro to Optimization Modeling

Check out my very first vlog: Optimization modeling as a tool and its utility in helping us understand how to better place watercraft inspectors to intercept aquatic invasive species! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZ_NLxF_i4A

Size & Power Series V: The Power and the Glory (and the Sample Size)

Welcome to Article V in this 5-part article series! You can find the other articles in this series by clicking the links below! Size & Power Series I: How Stats Logic is Human Logic Size & Power Series II: Walk Like a Statistician Size & Power Series III: Living in a Simulation Size & Power …

Size & Power Series IV: A Confidence (Interval) Scheme

Welcome to Article IV in this 5-part article series! You can find the other articles in this series by clicking the links below! Size & Power Series I: How Stats Logic is Human Logic Size & Power Series II: Walk Like a Statistician Size & Power Series III: Living in a Simulation Size & Power …

Size & Power Series III: Living in a Simulation

Welcome to Article III in this 5-part article series! You can find the other articles in this series by clicking the links below! Size & Power Series I: How Stats Logic is Human Logic Size & Power Series II: Walk Like a Statistician Size & Power Series IV: A Confidence (Interval) Scheme Size & Power …

Size & Power Series II: Walk Like a Statistician

Welcome to Article II in this 5-part article series! You can find the other articles in this series by clicking the links below! Size & Power Series I: How Stats Logic is Human Logic Size & Power Series III: Living in a Simulation Size & Power Series IV: A Confidence (Interval) Scheme Size & Power …

Size & Power Series I: How Stats Logic is Human Logic

This is Post 1 in a five-part series on statistical logic, statistical inference, confidence intervals, and, finally, using equations to make guesses about "ideal sample sizes" for studies. Click the links below to check out the other articles in the Series! Size & Power Series II: Walk Like a Statistician Size & Power Series III: …

Mentors: Here’s My #1 Most Valuable Question to Ask Research Mentees

Use this Table of Contents to navigate this article! The Essential Questions to Ask Your Mentees Early On During a Research ProjectMy Most Valuable Question to Ask Research Mentees (or Just About Anyone Doing Research)Value #1: It Puts One's Questions, Hypotheses, and Predictions to the Test (Pun Intended).Value #2: It Puts One's Data (and the …

How to Store Data Well: The 10 Commandments of Successful Data Storage

Use the Table of Contents below to easily navigate this article! Commandment #1: Thou Shalt Beget a Folder Structure Around Thy Data FilesCommandment #2: Thou Shall Not Worship Any Other Gods Before .CSVCommandment #3: Remember a Naming Convention, and Keep It HolyCommandment #4: Thou Shalt Keepeth Raw Data Files RawCommandment #5: Accompanyith Thy Data with …