[UPDATE: i remade the maps in green, hope that helps…]A recent survey reported in Science (“Defeating Creationism in the Courtroom, but not in the Classroom”) found that biology teachers in high sc...
A new early online paper in American Journal of Botany by Risa Sargent and colleagues suggests that plants are less sex deprived (pollen limited) in vernal pools that have more closely related plan...
Excel pivot tables have been how I have reorganized data…up until now. These are just a couple of examples why R is superior to Excel for reorganizing data:
UPDATE: I fixed the code to use ‘dcast’...
I recently gathered fish harvest data from the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administarion (NOAA), which I downloaded from Infochimps. The data is fish harvest by weight and value, by speci...
Wikispeedia is a website trying to gather all speed limit signs on Earth. I recently created a Google Visualization for some of their data, specifically on speed limit signs that change speed thro...