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<div class="">Thank you to everyone who was able to attend and participate in the November VWC with guests Julien Brun and Allison Horst, who presented on the <span style="font-family: Arial; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">R package they have developed to
teach statistical concepts using LTER datasets. If you missed their presentation, you can find the recording and notes in the shared
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<div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-family: Arial; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Following up, they are seeking
information from the IMC regarding their request for </span><span style="font-family: Arial; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">suitable datasets for this project.
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<div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-family: Arial; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Overview:
The R package will contain sample datasets collected by LTER Network sites (1 dataset from each site) with the primary use as teaching datasets (not for research purposes) for introductory data science and statistics courses. Examples of skills they would
like to highlight using these datasets are basic data wrangling (filtering, reshaping, dealing with missing values, etc), data visualization, hypothesis testing (e.g. t-tests, ANOVA, chi-squared), and linear regression.</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""><br class="">
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<div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-family: Arial; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Some</span><span style="font-family: Arial; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">
ideal dataset characteristics they are looking for include:</span></div>
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<div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Easy to understand variables</span></div>
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<div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Charismatic / well-known species or topics for
learners from different fields</span></div>
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<div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Can be subsetted into a sample (e.g., just selecting
several sites or species)</span></div>
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<div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Does not have to be tabular</span></div>
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<div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Spatial data (e.g., csv with coordinates)</span></div>
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<div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Plot survey data</span></div>
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<div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">CC0 or CC-BY License (or at least could be changed
to these licenses)</span></div>
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<div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-family: Arial; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">They have created this shared
</span><span style="text-decoration-line: underline; font-family: Arial; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""><a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1EwFdjDLJwAn8MACtzjCClSk87d7Z3wtZVWPrNwCDwmI/edit#gid=0" style="text-decoration-line: none;" class="">Googlesheet</a></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">
and are inviting members of the IMC <b class=""><font color="#9a234f" class="">to recommend dataset(s) for their respective LTER site by
</font></b></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""><b class=""><font color="#9a234f" class="">Friday, January 15th 2021</font></b></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">,</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: 700; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">
</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">in preparation for having capstone students begin working on this project later in January.</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">
The included examples are for sample datasets they have used to create the package infrastructure, but if IMs have other data to recommend, they welcome alternative options. Do not hesitate to submit multiple datasets per LTER site.</span></div>
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<div dir="ltr" class=""><span style="font-family: Arial; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">If you have specific questions or concerns about this project, please feel free
to reach out directly to Allison and Julien, who are both cc-d here.</span></div>
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<div dir="ltr" class=""><span style="font-family: Arial; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Thanks in advance for your contribution(s), on behalf of IM Exec, Julien Brun,
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<div><span style="color: rgb(67, 67, 67); font-family: Optima;" class="">University of New Mexico Department of Biology</span></div>
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