rstats Speeding up Numerical Simulation in R In this post I am going to look at how we can run fairly simple simulations in R with high efficiency. Though many individual-based simulation models might be simple, they can still take ages to run in R because of it is an interpreted language. In particular loops are notoriously
visualization Colourful Ecology Part 1: Selecting colours for scientific figures from an image using community ecology methods It used to be that I would make all my figures in black and white. It was just simpler that way, since most print journals charged extra money to print colour figures, and I did not have any money to spare. But with the move in science publishing from mainly
field-work Portraying Your Field Sites to Others and Your Future Self Part 1: Little Planets I have been experimenting recently with using my relatively inexpensive camera to capture the feeling or sense of a place I am in, with an eye towards collecting a record of field sites in my ecological work. The key is for it to be more immersive than a simple photograph,
MetaEvoPhyloEcoOmics is moving MetaEvoPhyloEcoOmics is moving to a new blogging platform. The main reason is I want to post more about R coding, and I use a lot of MarkDown, so I want a blogging platform that has good support for this. So I am moving to the awesome new blogging platform Ghost.
rstats A phylogenetic ordination in one line: magrittr Challenge! A picture suitable for a fancy pipe enthusiast My good friend Andrew recently posted this gist: It shows how to solve a simple programming exercise know as FizzBuzz in R, but also is clearly showing off his already amazing proficiency in the very new R package magrittr. Those are some
Sounds, Trees, and Models of Life - Weekly WHOMP - This will be a short Wednesday Hyperlinks Of My Preference, but there were a few cool things I'd like to share this week. I will be posting some actually substantive articles soon! In the mean time, check these sites out! Nature Soundmap: This is one of my new favourite websites.
articleImage Eusocial Media? This week I read a really interesting article by Joe Dramiga about how we can model social media trends in a similar way to how we might model ants, as they leave their pheromone trails. You Inner Ant: How Popularity on the Web Arises by Trial and Error makes an
Natural History TidBit(e) from Borneo - The story (literally) of a bloodsucker. Last month my wife and I made an unforgettable trip to Malaysian Borneo, to Mount Kinabalu and vicinity. It was our second time to Borneo, and will not be our last. In our mind's eye a mist seems to arise from this island, with luring tendrils that tug gently at
articleImage The first weekly Wednesday Hyperlinks Of My Preference (WHOMP). Popular Science Links, and Useful Writing Tools It is Wednesday Hyperlinks Of My Preference time, for the first time. Here are some of the links around the webs I found interesting or useful. Let's WHOMP. Popular Science Some of my favourite popular science writing from last week: Trilobite Beetles are Happy Being on Land, Alive in the
A new blog is born. What the!? Its slimy! </div> <div class="posthaven-gallery-cdr"> </div> </div> Welcome to my blog MetaEvoPhyloEcoOmics, or MEPHEO for short. I debated long and circularly about whether I would make my first post an introduction – like this one – or just dive right in with a
