The next step for my research methods poster is to figure out how to add in the richness of the dataset and a sense of context/importance of the topic for global issues. To do this, I really wanted to get into granular data about land use and soil degradation, rather than sticking with the simple…
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ResearchMethods: Settling on a story line
This semester has been a busy one, and the weeks are getting away from me! There’s a lot to talk about, so I’m going to break it up into a few posts. Here, I’d like to catch up on the first couple of drafts of my soil poster for my research methods class. The point…
ResearchMethods: Defining narrative and scope
I think it’s time to start narrowing down my narrative flow for the Research Methods project to help reduce the amount of reading and data processing necessary for the project. At this point, the dominant points seem to be: Soil is a complex system, and critically important for both food security and climate change. Soil has…
ResearchMethods: Experimenting with R Markdown
This is a cut-and-paste of a post created in R Markdown for my Research Methods class with Dietmar Offenhuber. It appears that there is no simple way to load an R Markdown file into a WordPress post, so I’m porting it over manually instead. The original post is here. This is a continuation of the…
ResearchMethods: Exploration of land use data
My research methods class is doing a semester-long project on the origins and implications of an object of our choosing. I decided to work with soil, as I wrote about before. After doing the “object autopsy” from my previous post, I went to the scientific literature and started looking deeper into what goes into making healthy soils, and…