Out of the field and into the fRying pan
Blog Notes: ABI 150 Section 001 We are rapidly nearing the end of the quarter and are one week out from our paper due dates. We ended data collection last Thursday with a… drumroll… 1333 observations of stilt behavior. Each of us knows what a tremendous, hard-fought dataset this was. It turns out, birds are pretty good at moving around and they made us really work for that number. Just as an example, we recorded more than 5000 foraging beak dips. Wow! To get the most out of our data set, Heuijae asked us to come prepared for today’s session with portions of our manuscript completed to allow us to focus on data analysis. Our goals for today were: A clear/refined research question Confirmed x and y (predictor and response variables) Graph type and possible analyses Some progress on R We have a canonical class dataset, aptly named “dataset” on the Google Drive. In addition to our tremendous effort in the field, this dataset represents a stunning example of ...