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Speeding up Numerical Simulation in R

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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

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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

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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,

Eusocial Media?

This week I read a really interesting article by Joe Dramiga [http://www.scilogs.com/sankore_scriptures/author/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

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