Labeled barplots in ggplot2
Visualizing grouped values using labeled side-by-side bars in ggplot2.
Welcome
Personal site with research updates, blog posts, and bio.
Recent posts
Presentations section and Biotweeps
Brief updates, March 2016
Research patterns in new species of mammals
Summary and visualization of research effort for recently described species of terrestrial mammals. Includes R code and data.
Extinction risk research in mammals
Trends and patterns in mammal extinction risk research, and thoughts on writing a sole-author paper.
Mapping local and cross-boundary conservation research
Mapping spatial patterns in conservation research using R and ICCB 2011 presentation data.
Getting elevation data for point occurrences in R using rgbif
Using R to fetch elevation for lat/long data through an API.
Section lengths in scientific papers
How long is the average section in a research article? Includes code for downloading and plotting data for five journals.
Plotting conditional inference trees
Example code for visualizing binary trees with dichotomous responses in R, focused on extinction risk modeling.