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Calling Bull Case Study — 99.9% Caffeine-free with R
11 Nov 2020 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):
By Carrie Diaz Eaton1, Carl Bergstrom2, Jevin West2
1. Bates College and QUBES 2. University of Washington
This is an adaptation of Calling Bull's Case Study on how caffeine free is hot chocolate versus coffee in order to make it into a student project that uses R.
https://qubeshub.org/publications/2122/?v=1
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Carbon Sequestration and the Urban heat Island Effect
12 May 2021 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):
By Evan Blais
Virginia Commonwealth University
An urban heat island is an urban or metropolitan area that is on average far warmer than the surrounding rural areas. In this lesson we will study the impact these warmer temperatures have on the...
https://qubeshub.org/publications/2354/?v=1
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Case Study - Storks vs Babies
11 Nov 2020 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):
By Carrie Diaz Eaton
Bates College and QUBES
This is a R project based on the Robert Matthews paper Storks vs Babies. The idea is to replicate the results of the paper, learn a bit about R for linear fits and graphing and explore correlation...
https://qubeshub.org/publications/2123/?v=1
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Case Study — World records as measures of senescence or randomness
12 Nov 2020 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):
By Carrie Diaz Eaton1, Carl Bergstrom2, Jevin West2
1. Bates College and QUBES 2. University of Washington
This is a project meant to accompany the Case Study that Carl Bergstrom, which uses R to explore whether declining track and field world record performance could be an artifact of sample size (less...
https://qubeshub.org/publications/2125/?v=1
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Cleaning Biodiversity Data: A Botanical Example Using Excel or RStudio
16 Jul 2020 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):
By Michelle Gaynor
University of Florida
Access and clean an open source herbarium dataset using Excel or RStudio.
https://qubeshub.org/publications/1964/?v=1
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Cleaning Data with R and the Tidyverse in Swirl
09 Jun 2020 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):
By Rachel Hartnett
Mount St. Mary's University
The overall goal is to help students learn common data cleaning procedures on a dataset once they’ve collected measurements and before they are able to start their analysis. This swirl lesson is...
https://qubeshub.org/publications/1891/?v=1
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Data-Driven Decision-Making: Antarctic Fisheries
05 Jul 2024 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):
By Jessie Golding1, Desiree Andersen1, Ellen Bledsoe1
University of Arizona
This is an entire module for a general education data science and ecology course. The module was originally designed as the fourth and final section of the course; the full course is openly...
https://qubeshub.org/publications/4885/?v=1
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Does Urbanization Favor Exotic Species?
09 May 2023 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):
By Gabriela Giacomangeli
In this lesson, students will learn about the exotic European honeybee (Apis mellifera), and why they are considered an important pollinator. They will be prompted to think about the impacts of...
https://qubeshub.org/publications/4326/?v=1
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Does Urbanization Favor Exotic Species?
17 May 2023 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):
By Gabriela Giacomangeli
In this lesson, students will learn about the exotic European honeybee (Apis mellifera), and why they are considered an important pollinator. They will be prompted to think about the impacts of...
https://qubeshub.org/publications/4326/?v=2
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ELE Calling Bull slides Feb 2024
09 Feb 2024 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):
By Carrie Diaz Eaton
Bates College and RIOS Institute
These are the slides for a talk given by Dr. Carrie Diaz Eaton about teaching Calling Bull. The talk was hosted by Every Learner Everywhere on February 9, 2024.
https://qubeshub.org/publications/4636/?v=1
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Histograms and Boxplots
21 Jan 2019 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):
By Suann Yang
SUNY Geneseo
This lesson, created for an introductory ecology course, focuses on helping novice R users to import a data file, apply base R plotting functions, and use R Markdown to generate a reproducible report.
https://qubeshub.org/publications/1019/?v=1
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Hong Qin
My goal is to promote computing in undergraduate education and research training. I hope to help other faculty develop coding exercises in R or Python for teaching, and using computing to...
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Investigating the Drivers of Western Monarch Decline Using Partial Least Squares Regression
08 May 2023 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):
By Jackie Luu
Virginia Commonwealth University
In this lesson, students will explore the drivers of the western monarch butterfly decline. Students will compare the effects of climate factors and land use factors on the western monarch...
https://qubeshub.org/publications/4310/?v=1
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Investigating the Drivers of Western Monarch Decline Using Partial Least Squares Regression
16 May 2023 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):
By Jackie Luu
Virginia Commonwealth University
In this lesson, students will explore the drivers of the western monarch butterfly decline. Students will compare the effects of climate factors and land use factors on the western monarch...
https://qubeshub.org/publications/4310/?v=2
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J. Stephen Gosnell
Stephen is a community ecologist who uses field, lab, and quantitative approaches to understand the causes and consequences of ecological diversity and better manage natural resources. A native of...
https://qubeshub.org/community/members/8040
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Jennifer Chiliquinga
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Learning R for Biologists: A Mini Course Grab-Bag for Instructors
21 Mar 2023 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):
By Amanda D. Clark1, Laurie S. Stevison*1
Auburn University
As biology becomes more data driven, teaching students data literacy skills has become central to biology curriculum. Despite a wealth of online resources that teach researchers how to use R, there...
https://qubeshub.org/publications/3698/?v=1
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LearnR Apps
15 Jul 2021 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):
By Derek Edward Sollberger
UC Merced School of Natural Sciences
Presentation on using the LearnR software in teaching. Presented at the 2021 BIOME Institute
https://qubeshub.org/publications/2471/?v=1
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Life in Urban Environments: The Impact of Urbanization on Life-History Traits in Amphibian Species
13 May 2021 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):
By Madison Whitehurst
This lesson focuses on urbanization and its negative effects on species, specifically amphibians. The lesson will also provide hands-on statistical analyses and critical thinking questions to...
https://qubeshub.org/publications/2364/?v=1
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Marney Pratt
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