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Using tidyr to clean messy, wide data

Posted on 2 April 201717 March 2023 by jwbenning

A while ago I had some climate data that I needed to play with, but they were in a "wide" format that made analysis in R difficult. These data were obtained from weather stations across the range of C. xantiana, and their format may make sense to us humans, but for data wrangling / analysis, … Continue reading Using tidyr to clean messy, wide data

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VWC sensor hack

Posted on 26 February 201517 March 2023 by jwbenning

I needed to quantify volumetric water content for a water stress experiment I have going in the greenhouse, but jeez, even a relatively simple setup can cost a pretty penny ($300 -$500). So I went the DIY route. You don't want to skimp on quality for the actual sensor -- for repeated insertion in greenhouse … Continue reading VWC sensor hack

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jwbenning [at] gmail [dot] com
Department of Botany
University of Wyoming

About me

NSF Postdoctoral Fellow in the Weiss-Lehman (U. Wyoming) and Hufbauer (Colorado State) labs. I’m a North Carolina transplant currently ‘ghost-doc’-ing in Minneapolis, MN.

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