About the bug counter
Hi! I'm Christie and I'm a computational ecologist and professor. I am an #otherpeoplesdata wrangler, stats enthusiast, and, of course, a bug counter. I cohabitate with five other vertebrates: one spouse, one spirited grade schooler, one energetic preschooler and two cats. You can find out more about the kind of work I do at my research website.
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Tag Archives: aphids
#Otherpeoplesdata don’t always look like data- a tale of soybean aphid and scouting records
One of the challenges we face in my field is that there is precious little data documenting small numbers of bugs. In agricultural entomology, especially when you’re dealing with pest insects, we worry much more about too many insects than … Continue reading
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Tagged aphids, bug counting, data, entomology, how-to, ladybugs, motivations, open science, otherpeoplesdata
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Formatting your data tables for storage and re-use
If you follow me on twitter, you probably know I’m compiling a huge dataset. I’ve used a variety of tools to work on these data (most notably reshape and OpenRefine), and now the data is in its cleanest form- a … Continue reading
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Tagged aphids, best practices, data, data formatting, excel, real data, spreadsheets, stats, style, tables
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Practical Data Management for Bug Counters 