Archive for 2012

Congratulations! (not)

Posted by sarcozona on August 28, 2012. One comment.

Several months ago I received a letter from my fellowship funders, self-congratulatory and long winded as all such letters are. But the patronizing tone was quickly forgotten at the line “your fellowship is being increased by $X for the next academic year.” Then there was great rejoicing among the fellowship recipients. Great plans were laid for […]

Music for doing dishes on a sunny Saturday

Posted by sarcozona on August 18, 2012. No comments.

Berry Go Round!

Posted by sarcozona on July 31, 2012. No comments.

I bet you miss all the blogging I used to do about plants. Go get your fix at this month’s edition of the Berry Go Round botanical blog carnival. And here’s a picture of some adorable Western hemlock cones to help make up for all the plant blogging I haven’t done.

Music for working with data that makes you angry

Posted by sarcozona on July 26, 2012. No comments.

Music for working even when you don’t feel well

Posted by sarcozona on July 20, 2012. One comment.

Music for moving data from paper to R

Posted by sarcozona on July 17, 2012. No comments.

In appreciation of thorough metadeta

Posted by sarcozona on July 16, 2012. 2 comments.

I’m working with a weather dataset that has some peculiar trends. So, of course, I got my hands on the metadata. And what metadata it is! Most of it is just as boring (but useful) as you imagine, but this bit completely makes up for the blandness of the previous six or so pages: IMPORTANT […]