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Congrats to Drew!

August 23, 2020by bscheng12 Leave a comment

Sea Grant has announced its John A. Knauss Marine Policy Fellowship finalists and our very own Drew is among them! Congrats! Also, if you look closely, I’m pretty sure that […]

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Science

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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Research, Science

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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Fun, R, Science

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 4 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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Fun, R, Science

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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Fun, R, Science

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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R, Research, Science

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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R, Research, Science

Coastal oysters?

September 18, 2016by bscheng12 Leave a comment

Lately, I’ve been doing meta-analysis for my postdoc, working with NO live animals, so I’m excited to see living animals from the ocean. When I’m not in Maryland, I’m in […]

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Research, Science

converting wide to long format in R

October 2, 2015by bscheng12 Leave a comment

I’ve heard California is parched. Though, I wouldn’t know. I’m in Maryland now and we’re staring at Hurricane Joaquin who was threatening to wash the east coast into the Atlantic […]

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R, Research, Science

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