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Oyster drills are infamous

August 21, 2018by bscheng12 Leave a comment

I was recently out in San Francisco Bay finishing up our citizen-science based oyster drill eradication project. We were fortunate to have the SF Chronicle feature an article about our […]

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Oceanography data with ‘OCE’ in R

October 8, 2017by bscheng12 Leave a comment

Oceanographers love two things. 1. Expensive equipment and 2. Matlab. I get the first one. I mean, who wouldn’t want to play with titantium 4km pressure rated CTDs or autonomous […]

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Our paper was subject of a news cartoon. Life is now complete.

December 27, 2016by bscheng12 Leave a comment

Our recent atmospheric river paper was the subject of a cartoon and accompanying article in the Marin Independent. Life is now complete! That is all. Please carry on.  

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Modeling completely separated data in R

December 11, 2016by bscheng12 2 Comments

Complete separation occurs when data is perfectly discriminated by a predictor. Let me illustrate (literally, haha). You’ll notice that the y-axis is binary, there are only 0s and 1s. That’s […]

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Logistic Regression in R

October 23, 2016by bscheng12 1 Comment

My dog pants a lot. Don’t judge him. He’s brachycephalic (shorter skull/muzzle than other dogs), so he has issues thermoregulating. But he doesn’t always pant. Let me illustrate. Panting! Not […]

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Spatial data using ‘raster’ in R

October 22, 2016by bscheng12 2 Comments

There’s a lot of freely available data out there. Much of this data is spatial and derived from remote sensing platforms (e.g. satellites). Here’s a quick primer on using the […]

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Stacked time series in R

October 17, 2016by bscheng12 Leave a comment

Stacked time series plots are cool. Vastly superior to double y-axis plots which are a big no no according to graph theory. Exhibit A and Exhibit B. If Hadley Wickham […]

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