So the Weecology folks have published a large dataset on mammal communities in a data paper in Ecology.  I know nothing about mammal communities, but that doesn't mean one can't play with the data...Their dataset consists of five csv files: &...

With examples from rOpenSci R packages. p.s. I am no expert at this...Web data from R View more presentations from schamber

The team at rOpenSci and I have been working on a wrapper for the USA National Phenology Network API. The following is a demo of some of the current possibilities. We will have more functions down the road. Get the publicly available code, and contribu...

Have you ever wanted to search and fetch barcode data from Bold Systems?I am developing functions to interface with Bold from R. I just started, but hopefully folks will find it useful.The code is at Github here. The two functions are still very buggy,...

We just wrapped up the 2011 iEvoBio meeting. It was awesome! If you didn't go this year or last year, definitely think about going next year.Here is a list of the cool projects that were discussed at the meeting (apologies if I left some out):Vistrails...

I am writing some functions to acquire data from the OpenStates project, via their API. They have a great support community at Google Groups as well.On its face this post is not obviously about ecology or evolution, but well, our elected represent...

I recently gathered fish harvest data from the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administarion (NOAA), which I downloaded from Infochimps. The data is fish harvest by weight and value, by species for 21 years, from 1985 to 2005. Here is a link to a google document of the data I used below: ...

Okay, so this isn't ecology related at all, but I like exploring data sets. So here goes...Propublica has some awesome data sets available at their website: http://www.propublica.org/tools/I played around with their data set on Recovery.gov (see hyperl...