Weird thoughts 12 Oct 2023

Job searching notes 09 Oct 2023

Working at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center 06 Oct 2023

Python, ast, and redbaron 18 Apr 2023

CRAN Checks API and Badges 02 Jun 2022

List comprehension vs. filter vs. key lookup 18 Apr 2022

Notes on Python 07 Feb 2022

Mocking HTTP redirects 27 Nov 2021

API client design: how to deal with lots of parameters? 21 Dec 2020

stories behind archived packages 10 Sep 2020

taxizedb: an update 17 Aug 2020

how many parameters? 10 Feb 2020

finding truffles 30 Jan 2020

text mining, apis, and parsing api logs 21 Mar 2019

Exceptions in control flow in R 04 Mar 2019

Notes on porting Ruby to R 19 Feb 2019

trailing commas 07 Feb 2019

condition control: I just want that message once 06 Dec 2018

limiting dependencies in R package development 02 Oct 2018

Balancing user friendliness and code fragility 27 Jul 2018

Exploring specimen collections data in Butte County, California 12 Jun 2018

Exploring git commits with git2r 05 Feb 2018

My Sublime Text workflow/setup 31 Jan 2018

Playing with Ruby Patterns in R 25 Jan 2018

Web APIs with Sinatra, Mongo, Docker, and Caddy 14 Nov 2017

habanero update: Crossref data from Python 23 Oct 2017

cranchecks: an API for CRAN check results 27 Sep 2017

gbifrb: Ruby client for the GBIF API 07 Sep 2017

hoardr: simple file caching 15 Aug 2017

Tooling for R package development 18 Jun 2017

Reading in May 16 May 2017

CascadiaRConf 23 Mar 2017

USDA plants database API in R 19 Oct 2016

gbids - GenBank IDs API is back up! 01 Sep 2016

nonoyes - text analysis of Reply All podcast transcripts 25 Aug 2016

video editing notes 12 Aug 2016

Marine Regions data in R 09 Jun 2016

atomize - make new packages from other packages 07 Apr 2016

GenBank IDs API - get, match, swap id types 29 Mar 2016

heythere - a robot to automate GitHub issue comments 24 Mar 2016

scrubr - clean species occurrence records 04 Mar 2016

request - a high level HTTP client for R 05 Jan 2016

binomen - Tools for slicing and dicing taxonomic names 08 Dec 2015

Crossref programmatic clients 30 Nov 2015

pygbif - GBIF client for Python 12 Nov 2015

noaa - Integrated Surface Database data 21 Oct 2015

Metrics for open source projects 19 Oct 2015

analogsea - an R client for the Digital Ocean API 02 Oct 2015

oai - an OAI-PMH client 11 Sep 2015

fulltext - a package to help you mine text 07 Aug 2015

rnoaa - Weather data in R 07 Jul 2015

rerddap - General purpose R client for ERDDAP servers 24 Jun 2015

iDigBio - a new data source in spocc 08 Jun 2015

openadds - open addresses client 18 May 2015

lawn - a new package to do geospatial analysis 18 May 2015

geojsonio - a new package to do geojson things 30 Apr 2015

the new way - httsnap 29 Apr 2015

Faster solr with csv 20 Mar 2015

PUT dataframes on your couch 12 Mar 2015

csl - an R client for Citation Style Language data 11 Mar 2015

Elasticsearch backup and restore 27 Feb 2015

note to self, secure elasticsearch 26 Feb 2015

Package development 14 Feb 2015

httping - ping and time http requests 30 Jan 2015

elastic - Elasticsearch from R 29 Jan 2015

binomen - taxonomic classes and parsing 19 Jan 2015

discgolf - Dicourse from R 15 Jan 2015

R I/O for geojson and topojson 06 Jan 2015

gistr - R client for GitHub gists 05 Jan 2015

pytaxize - low level ITIS functions 26 Dec 2014

Museum metadata - the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco 10 Dec 2014

icanhaz altmetrics 08 Dec 2014

Dealing with multi handle errors 08 Dec 2014

Altmetrics from anywhere 08 Dec 2014

Publications by author country 03 Dec 2014

http codes 02 Dec 2014

taxize workflows 02 Dec 2014

1000 commits to taxize 28 Nov 2014

Intro to alpha ckanr - R client for CKAN RESTful API 26 Nov 2014

Fun with the GitHub API 26 Nov 2014

sofa - reboot 18 Nov 2014

Conditionality meta-analysis data 06 Oct 2014

rsunlight - R client for Sunlight Labs APIs 11 Aug 2014

analogsea - v0.1 notes 18 Jun 2014

analogsea - an R client for the Digital Ocean API 28 May 2014

Logistic plot reboot 22 May 2014

cowsay - ascii messages and warnings for R 20 Feb 2014

cites - citation stuff from the command line 18 Jan 2014

rgauges - fun with hourly web site analytics 17 Jan 2014

Jekyll - an intro 20 Nov 2013

Code display in scholarly journals 25 Oct 2013

Guide to using rOpenSci packages during the US Gov't shutdown 08 Oct 2013

Taxonomy data from the web in three languages 27 Sep 2013

Pollinator niche breadth and natural enemies 19 Sep 2013

govdat - SunlightLabs and New York Times Congress data via R 28 Aug 2013

Engaging the public on climate change through phenology data 18 Aug 2013

Working with climate data from the web in R 17 Aug 2013

R ecology workshop 31 Jul 2013

R resources 30 Jul 2013

Beyond academia 25 Jul 2013

On writing, sharing, collaborating, and hosting code for science 20 Jul 2013

R to GeoJSON 30 Jun 2013

Put some cushions on the sofa 21 Jun 2013

Coffeehouse - an aggregator for blog posts about data, data management, etc. 18 Jun 2013

Stashing and playing with raw data locally from the web 17 Jun 2013

Fylopic, an R wrapper to Phylopic 01 Jun 2013

BISON USGS species occurrence data 27 May 2013

Scholarly metadata in R 16 Mar 2013

Visualizing rOpenSci collaboration 08 Mar 2013

Academia reboot 22 Feb 2013

Getting a simple tree via NCBI 14 Feb 2013

testing ifttt recipe, ignore 26 Jan 2013

Waiting for an API request to complete 26 Jan 2013

Resolving species names when you have a lot of them 25 Jan 2013

Open Science Challenge 08 Jan 2013

Is invasive? 13 Dec 2012

Shiny apps are awesome 10 Dec 2012

One R package for all your taxonomic needs 06 Dec 2012

Altecology, a call to unconference action 15 Nov 2012

Displaying Your Data in Google Earth Using R2G2 24 Oct 2012

Getting taxonomic names downstream 16 Oct 2012

Exploring phylogenetic tree balance metrics 10 Oct 2012

GBIF biodiversity data from R - more functions 08 Oct 2012

Vertnet - getting vertebrate museum record data and a quick map 19 Sep 2012

Getting data from figures in published papers 18 Sep 2012

Scholarly metadata from R 17 Sep 2012

Getting data on your government 01 Sep 2012

Getting ecology and evolution journal titles from R 31 Aug 2012

Ecology unconference at ESA 2013 30 Aug 2012

Making matrices with zeros and ones 30 Aug 2012

ggplot2 maps with insets 22 Aug 2012

Hitting the Global Names Resolver API 20 Jul 2012

Recent R packages for ecology and evolution 14 Jun 2012

Visualize your Github stats (forks and watchers) in a browser with R! 05 May 2012

mvabund - new R pkg for multivariate abundance data 19 Mar 2012

Journal Articles Need Interactive Graphics 25 Feb 2012

Take the INNGE survey on math and ecology 17 Feb 2012

Scraping Flora of North America 27 Jan 2012

RNetLogo - A package for running NetLogo from R 23 Jan 2012

Taking a Closer Look at Peer Review 16 Jan 2012

Function for phylogeny resolution 13 Jan 2012

Moving from blogger and wordpress to jekyll 11 Jan 2012

Presenting results of logistic regression 10 Jan 2012

Testing twitterfeed 08 Jan 2012

Weecology can has new mammal dataset 29 Dec 2011

Recology is 1 yr old 24 Dec 2011

Dynamic views don't support javascript-so reverting back to simple views 22 Dec 2011

I Work For The Internet ! 13 Dec 2011

LondonR meetings presentations 11 Dec 2011

rOpenSci won 3rd place in the PLoS-Mendeley Binary Battle! 30 Nov 2011

Public vote open for Mendely-PLoS Binary Battle: vote rOpenSci! 19 Nov 2011

My talk on doing phylogenetics in R 18 Nov 2011

Check out a video of my research at RocketHub 01 Nov 2011

My little presentation on getting web data through R 28 Oct 2011

Two new rOpenSci R packages are on CRAN 27 Oct 2011

Two-sex demographic models in R 26 Oct 2011

New food web dataset 14 Oct 2011

Phylogenetic community structure: PGLMMs 13 Oct 2011

R talk on regular expressions (regex) 06 Oct 2011

R tutorial on visualizations/graphics 30 Sep 2011

Short on funding? Can't get a grant? Crowdfunding! #SciFund 27 Sep 2011

Ten Simple Rules for OA Publishers talk by Philip Bourne 23 Sep 2011

@drewconway interview on @DataNoBorders at the Strata conference 23 Sep 2011

Open science talk by Carl Boettiger 23 Sep 2011

My take on an R introduction talk 09 Sep 2011

A Data Visualization Book 09 Sep 2011

FigShare Talk 09 Sep 2011

Jonathan Eisen on the Fourth Domain and Open Science 06 Sep 2011

rnpn: An R interface for the National Phenology Network 31 Aug 2011

Tenure track position in systematics at the University of Vermont 22 Aug 2011

Thursday at #ESA11 12 Aug 2011

Wednesday at #ESA11 11 Aug 2011

Monday at #ESA11 09 Aug 2011

(#ESA11) rOpenSci: a collaborative effort to develop R-based tools for facilitating Open Science 08 Aug 2011

Blogging/tweeting from #ESA11 31 Jul 2011

Models in Evolutionary Ecology seminar, organized by Timothee Poisot 18 Jul 2011

Archiving ecology/evolution data sets online 16 Jul 2011

CRdata vs. Cloudnumbers 14 Jul 2011

rbold: An R Interface for Bold Systems barcode repository 28 Jun 2011

iEvoBio 2011 Synopsis 23 Jun 2011

PLoS journals API from R: "rplos" 21 Jun 2011

ggplot2 talk by Hadley Whickam at Google 17 Jun 2011

OpenStates from R via API: watch your elected representatives 11 Jun 2011

Just turned on 'mobile template' for this blog, let me know if it works 09 Jun 2011

> 10,000 visits to Recology!!!! 09 Jun 2011

How to fit power laws 07 Jun 2011

searching ITIS and fetching Phylomatic trees 03 Jun 2011

phylogenetic signal simulations 18 May 2011

A simple function for plotting phylogenies in ggplot2 17 May 2011

plyr's idata.frame VS. data.frame 13 May 2011

google reader 12 May 2011

Comparison of functions for comparative phylogenetics 11 May 2011

RHIPE package in R for interfacing between Hadoop and R 05 May 2011

Treebase trees from R 03 May 2011

Processing nested lists 28 Apr 2011

Running Phylip's contrast application for trait pairs from R 26 Apr 2011

Phylometa from R: Randomization via Tip Shuffle 16 Apr 2011

RStudio Beta 2 is Out! 11 Apr 2011

Adjust branch lengths with node ages: comparison of two methods 10 Apr 2011

Phylometa from R - UDPATE 01 Apr 2011

Bio-ORACLE 25 Mar 2011

basic ggplot2 network graphs ver2 23 Mar 2011

basic ggplot2 network graphs 17 Mar 2011

Species abundance distributions and basketball 13 Mar 2011

cloudnumbers.com 11 Mar 2011

Five ways to visualize your pairwise comparisons 05 Mar 2011

Check out Phyloseminar.org 04 Mar 2011

RStudio 01 Mar 2011

R overtakes SAS in popularity 25 Feb 2011

Phenotypic selection analysis in R 24 Feb 2011

Phylogenetic analysis with the phangorn package: an example 21 Feb 2011

Farmer's markets data 17 Feb 2011

Troubling news for the teaching of evolution 09 Feb 2011

Plants are less sex deprived when next to closely related neighbors 02 Feb 2011

Good riddance to Excel pivot tables 31 Jan 2011

R and Google Visualization API: Fish harvests 18 Jan 2011

R and Google Visualization API: Wikispeedia 18 Jan 2011

Bipartite networks and R 14 Jan 2011

Just for fun: Recovery.gov data snooping 11 Jan 2011

R and Google Visualization API 09 Jan 2011

Ecological networks from abundance distributions 06 Jan 2011

R-bloggers 05 Jan 2011

New approach to analysis of phylogenetic community structure 05 Jan 2011

Ngram ecological terms 30 Dec 2010

Phylogenetic meta-analysis in R using Phylometa 28 Dec 2010

A new blog about using R for ecology and evolution 27 Dec 2010