Author: Rodney Dyer
CSBC Faculty Meeting
Welcome back!
CES Faculty Meeting
Welcome Back!
ENVS 601 Lecture
Here are my slides from a guest lecture I gave in ENVS 601. Interesting class, only place I’ve been called totally ignorant by another instructor… I’m thinking it was a compliment aimed at bias-free research approaches.
ENVS Welcome Slides
We have just begun the new academic year and we are already getting orientation meetings together for the next set of incoming students.
Capturing contents within Curly Brackets
OK, just a quickie here. I’m working with a colleague on a manuscript using LaTeX. The citation formatting for the journal we are looking at uses the numerical citations but bibtex will number the citations by the order in which the \bibitem values they occur in the bibliography section. So, it would be great to get them to be in the order in which they occur in the text.
So, our old friend (and sometimes enemy) grep comes to the rescue. Here is a quick one-liner that allows you to search the text for all the \cite{} entries and return only the contents within the curly brackets.
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cat test.tex | grep -o -e "cite{[^}]*}" |
Once all the editing is done and we’ve finished on the main body of the text, we can reorder the bibliography section and the numbers will be incremental.
Sometimes I forget how awesome and powerful the unix underpinnings are.
CES Fall Semester Faculty Meeting
Per Hour Population Growth
A great infographic of per-hour growth in major cities.
VDOT Progress Update
This is a short presentation on the progress for the VDOT eDNA project.
Thanks Research Gate!
Mixed Fermentation & Sour Beers: Flanders Style!
Here are some slides (click to open) from a presentation I gave on mixed fermentation and the brewing of a Flanders Red for the VCU Fermentation course.
March Faculty Meeting Notes
ggproblems
OK, so there is a bit of a circular firing squad going on in some of my R installs with ggplot2. Apparently, you can get various CRAN/Github versions out of sync and a whole host of different. Here is how it started:
New sequencer!
USB-3.0 powered!
New URL’s
This web page is now available as through the following URL’s
http://dyerlab.org
http://dyerlab.com
because the longer URL is too long and confusing.
http://dyerlab.ces.vcu.edu
Bayesian Models
A three-part introduction to Bayesian Data Analysis by Rasmus Bååth.
R Post of the Day
Fancy pie chart (thanks, yihui, you are a genius):
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par(mar = c(0, 1, 0, 1)) pie( c(280, 60, 20), c('Sky', 'Sunny side of pyramid', 'Shady side of pyramid'), col = c('#0292D8', '#F7EA39', '#C4B632'), init.angle = -50, border = NA ) |
New Job
I have accepted and begun working as the Director of the Center for Environmental Studies at Virginia Commonwealth University. The Center is a chartered research center whose mission is to… Well, do whatever I think it will do to produce the best research and educational opportunities for our undergraduate and graduate students. We train applied scientists.
The Center has about 10 FTE faculty, a lot of which are shared among groups (e.g., half biology/half CES, half business/half CES, etc.) and several quality adjunct instructors. We have about 250 undergraduates, 40 Masters-level graduate students in the program, and several individuals with Ph.D. students in the Integrative Life Sciences program.
Life Sciences Graduation
Talk at Temple!
Giving a talk up at Temple University, last seminar of the year but one I’ve been looking forward to giving for a while.