Henry David Thoreau Faculty Grant Awarded for Community Engaged Data Science Program
With generous support from a Henry David Thoreau Faculty Grant I will be launching a new Community-Engaged Data Science program at the College of the Atlantic this spring. The focus of the program for the 2023-2024 academic year is to connect students with local environmental organizations and community partners to analyze regional environmental issues and develop data-driven environmental solutions.
Coded Mittens
Colorwork knitting provides a wonderful creative template for learning to code and it isn’t the first time that people saw the link between textiles and computers.
Introducing rspatialdata - a collection of data sources and tutorials on downloading and visualizing spatial data using R
Introducing rspatialdata a website that provides a collection of data sources and tutorials on downloading and visualising spatial data using R. The website includes a wide range of datasets including administrative boundaries of countries, Open Street Map data, population, temperature, vegetation, air pollution, and malaria data.
Creating the where I work leaflet map
In this post I’ll describe how I created my “Where I work” map using leaflet and how to include it in the hugo academic theme as an iframe.
Outfoxing Rabies: one vaccine-loaded chicken head at a time
To mark the 10th World Rabies Day, Naturally Speaking’s Laurie Baker (@llbaker1707) steps out from her interviewer role to share how she and her collaborators at the Institute of Biodiversity, Animal Health and Comparative Medicine (IBAHCM) and the Friedrich Loeffler Institut (FLI), are using lessons from fox rabies elimination in Western Europe to outfox rabies.
Conversations with an R Jedi
As much as we love it or hate it, programming plays an increasingly important part in biological research. In this episode of Naturally Speaking Shorts, Laurie Baker (@llbaker1707) speaks to Hadley Wickham, Chief Scientist at RStudio, about the ins and outs of programming.
