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Paul Julian
@swampthingpaul.bsky.social
#Aquatic & #wetland #ecologist, #biogeochemist & #limnologist but you will always find me in the #garden. #rstats number crunching fool. The trails call to me. #Plantbased #vegan muscle head at heart. Webpage and blog https://swampthingecology.org/
5) 3rd - Have the sampling frequency categories changed over time?
November 12, 2025 at 2:56 PM
4) 2nd - What is the frequency of monitoring and the number of stations at said frequency and parameter?
November 12, 2025 at 2:56 PM
3) 1st - A simple data inventory. How many samples per year by site (& network) and parameter? Some parameters are sampled more than others within different networks.
November 12, 2025 at 2:56 PM
2) As I started a new analysis, I decided to be more deliberate in understanding the sampling regime for the parameters of interest. Here are a couple of plots (and example code). Don't tell anyone ... ggplot is starting to grow on me (for somethings).
November 12, 2025 at 2:56 PM
@dsmccormick.bsky.social‬ Thanks for the suggestion ... here is a revised version with the turbo color scale. I think I like this one better!! It definitely contrasts the categories more.
August 25, 2025 at 5:33 PM
For my hashtag#openscience and hashtag#rstats friends, here is the code behind this plot. In addition to exploring data from a different lake, I learned some new code using ggplot with spatial data and combining multiple plots into one coherent visualization.
gist.github.com/SwampThingPa...
Lake Champlain Calendar Plot
Lake Champlain Calendar Plot. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.
gist.github.com
August 25, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Easier said than done nowadays (at least in the US). In the past three weeks I've reached out to five companies only two return my calls with one saying we aren't doing anymore installs so they can't quote me. Granted the US is a roaring garbage fire right now ...
August 14, 2025 at 10:55 AM
What especially neat is that its all hashtag#OpenScience with a R shiny app to interact with the models

swampthingpaul.shinyapps.io/lok_algaeeva...
Lake Okeechobee Algae Condition Evaluation
swampthingpaul.shinyapps.io
July 14, 2025 at 12:41 PM