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: open science
Is accessibility part of “open” science?
Just how many “Open Access Journals” provide disability accessibility to their readers? We explored this question through analyzing image accessibility in 300 “open” scientific journals. Continue reading
Building access into open – writing image description templates into our code annotations
One of the critical elements of our ongoing projects is to identify barriers to reproducible science with public data. Our teammates have previously mentioned lacking or irregular data, data collection, sampling period, and metadata as examples. But today I want … Continue reading
Passive crowdsourcing- finding the data that people don’t know they’re creating
I have a new paper out! You can read it: Predicting plant attractiveness to pollinators with passive crowdsourcing.1 A while back, my colleague, Doug Landis, was searching the web for pictures of flowers for a project about native plants, and noticed … Continue reading
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Tagged bees, bug counting, data, entomology, forking the repo, no seriously bees are everywhere, open science, R
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Ready, set, TEACH.
The semester starts in one week’s time. Before the break, I was furiously working, working, working to get the Open Science and Reproducible Research course at least skeletonized. This week will be all about sorting out tasks I need to get … Continue reading
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Tagged best practices, getting on a soapbox, impeding disaster, open science, otherpeoplesdata
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Open science is a political issue
I opened Facebook this morning to find a friend back home had linked to an article in Maclean’s magazine:1 Here are the issues Canadians care about the most this election It was to the delight of all the confirmation-bias associated … Continue reading
#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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Practical Data Management for Bug Counters 