Martin Westgate
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Martin Westgate
@rowdy_nerd
Australian ecologist | Scientific software developer (#rstats) | Occasional frogger
Canberra, Australia Katılım Haziran 2012
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Early flight to Melbs for the OceaniaR hackathon!! Gonna be a good day 🧑💻
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Despite providing 5% of @GBIF's global observations, the ALA's research impact is greater than it seems...🧑🏼🔬🧫
New @UNSW research finds the ALA has supported > 9,000 authors & 2,406 scientific publications (to 2023). 63% are open-access!
🔗📚: spr.ly/6012mCn3e
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Wow now David Keith wins the #EurekaPrize for Botanical Science. A great night for Australian ecological research.
“Long live botany, long live ecology!”
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Amazing to see @EuanRitchie1 recognised with the 2024 @eurekaprizes for promoting understanding of science. So well deserved, what a legend!
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🔎 Have you checked out ALA's new book Cleaning Biodiversity Data in R?
This hand resource will make sure you're using brains 🧠 not prawn 🦐 to get through your data cleaning tasks!
🔗 spr.ly/6015lfpof
@daxkellie @fonti_kar @ShandiyaB
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📦 galah 2.0.2 is now on #CRAN!
We've made LOTS of 🐞 bug fixes & added experimental features like:
▪️ Download records using a point radius (see 👇)
▪️ Use galah_geolocate() with GBIF + other Atlases
▪️ Improved atlas_species()
See updates:🔗 spr.ly/6016bAYl8
#rstats
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galah 2.0.0 takes flight on CRAN! 🐦 #Rstats
New features:
✅dplyr syntax
✅Transparent query building
✅Faster parsing
✅Use `%in%`, `!`, `is. na()`
✅New advanced vignette series
🔗Changes: spr.ly/6010uAqjw
🔗More info: spr.ly/6012uAqjj
@daxkellie @westgatecology
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Our R package `galah` version 2.0.0 is on our GitHub page now; feel free to give it a spin before it goes to CRAN!
Repo: github.com/AtlasOfLivin...
Docs: galah.ala.org.au/R/
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Open-science practices don't (all) require big investments of time and effort. This great post by @daxkellie and @westgatecology introduces small and achievable steps to improve R code reproducibility that can have a big impact ecoevocommunity.nature.com/posts/improvin…
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Checking out the other place
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@daxkellie @ShandiyaB @EcolSocAus So *that’s* where everyone went! 🧐 I thought the office was quiet today…
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@fonti_kar @atlaslivingaust @daxkellie @ShandiyaB Thanks so much for joining us this last year, Fonti! It's been wonderful having you on the team, and you'll be greatly missed. Best of luck with the next job and don't be a stranger!
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I’ve come to the end of my wonderful journey at the @atlaslivingaust 💫 how time flies when you work with kind, funny and clever folks like @westgatecology @daxkellie @ShandiyaB 👩💻🧑💻👨💻To top off my time here, I saw this cute pair as an homage to {galah} the R package ! 🦜
Canberra, Australian Capital Territory 🇦🇺 English
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We've just released the FrogID dataset 4.0. Almost 𝙝𝙖𝙡𝙛 𝙖 𝙢𝙞𝙡𝙡𝙞𝙤𝙣 #frog records. That’s more than double all other frog records gathered since @FrogIDAus launched in 2017. Created by over 23,000 people recording #frogs across #Australia. 🐸💚
australian.museum/blog/amri-news…
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@Mikey_Whitehead Just throwing out there that this could be related to the order in which points are added to the plot; I.e. biological fx, sampling fx and software fx all happening at once.
It’s a lovely piece though, seriously thinking of putting this on my wall
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Very cool!
Is this a sampling artifact or do more temperate climates select for parrot-red?
Atlas of Living Aust@atlaslivingaust
In the world of #dataviz sometimes art meets science! 🖌👩🔬 We plotted parrot data in the ALA to celebrate #WorldParrotDay 🦜 using the dominant plumage shades for each genus 🌈 and created some accidental art in the process! Watch out Monet 🎨 @accidental_aRt #rstats #Rtistry
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I love this #dataviz for a few different reasons!
1. How interesting the general spatila patterns in plumage trends (South-East redder, North green/yellow, West pinker etc). Is it adaptive?
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Has anyone ever studied this?
@BirdlifeOz @D0CT0R_Dave @Twitchathon
Atlas of Living Aust@atlaslivingaust
In the world of #dataviz sometimes art meets science! 🖌👩🔬 We plotted parrot data in the ALA to celebrate #WorldParrotDay 🦜 using the dominant plumage shades for each genus 🌈 and created some accidental art in the process! Watch out Monet 🎨 @accidental_aRt #rstats #Rtistry
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In the world of #dataviz sometimes art meets science! 🖌👩🔬
We plotted parrot data in the ALA to celebrate #WorldParrotDay 🦜 using the dominant plumage shades for each genus 🌈 and created some accidental art in the process!
Watch out Monet 🎨 @accidental_aRt
#rstats #Rtistry
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@TroveAustralia Ok, thanks @TroveAustralia! I wonder why? Mostly Python users perhaps?
Anyway, the new API docs look great, looking forward to checking it out :)
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@westgatecology Hi Martin, there isn’t an R package for accessing the Trove API. We are working on v3 of the API, which is currently in Beta and it supports OpenAPI.
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Ok random question: is there an R package for accessing the @TroveAustralia API? Surely there must be, right?! #rstats
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