Australian ecologist | Scientific software developer (#rstats) | Occasional frogger
Canberra, Australia
Joined June 2012
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Martin Westgate retweeted
You asked.... we listened!
It's the last day of biodiversity month!
To celebrate, we've visualised all the plant observations added to the ALA in 2024. 🌿🪻
Flowering plants have hit everyone else out of the park! 🌸⚾️
#rstats #dataviz
ALT A bubble chart showing the largest plant groups recorded in the Atlas of Living Australia in 2024. The biggest group is flowering plants (orange): with the subgroups legumes, daises and myrtles taking out the top!
Martin Westgate retweeted
Despite providing 5% of @GBIF's global observations, the ALA's research impact is greater than it seems...🧑🏼🔬🧫
New @UNSW research finds the ALA has supported > 9,000 authors & 2,406 scientific publications (to 2023). 63% are open-access!
🔗📚: spr.ly/6012mCn3e
ALT A circular graph diagram showing global authorship and collaboration of scientific publication using the ALA. Collaboration links between the 10 most authorship-intensive countries. The links represent the number of co-authored journal articles and are shaded according to the dominant country; collaborations within countries are not shown.
Wow now David Keith wins the #EurekaPrize for Botanical Science. A great night for Australian ecological research.
“Long live botany, long live ecology!”
Amazing to see @EuanRitchie1 recognised with the 2024 @eurekaprizes for promoting understanding of science. So well deserved, what a legend!
Martin Westgate retweeted
🔎 Have you checked out ALA's new book Cleaning Biodiversity Data in R?
This hand resource will make sure you're using brains 🧠 not prawn 🦐 to get through your data cleaning tasks!
🔗 spr.ly/6015lfpof
@daxkellie @fonti_kar @ShandiyaB
ALT Blue graphic with a picture of an orange prawn
Martin Westgate retweeted
📦 galah 2.0.2 is now on #CRAN!
We've made LOTS of 🐞 bug fixes & added experimental features like:
▪️ Download records using a point radius (see 👇)
▪️ Use galah_geolocate() with GBIF + other Atlases
▪️ Improved atlas_species()
See updates:🔗 spr.ly/6016bAYl8
#rstats
ALT Pink graphic with the galah logo in the centre (a blue, pink and teal graphic)
Martin Westgate retweeted
galah 2.0.0 takes flight on CRAN! 🐦 #Rstats
New features:
✅dplyr syntax
✅Transparent query building
✅Faster parsing
✅Use `%in%`, `!`, `is. na()`
✅New advanced vignette series
🔗Changes: spr.ly/6010uAqjw
🔗More info: spr.ly/6012uAqjj
@daxkellie @westgatecology
Our R package `galah` version 2.0.0 is on our GitHub page now; feel free to give it a spin before it goes to CRAN!
Repo: github.com/AtlasOfLivin...
Docs: galah.ala.org.au/R/
Martin Westgate retweeted
Don't forget to apply for ESH2023!
If you're an expert in #EvidenceSynthesis and/or #coding/#softwareDevelopment in #Rstats, please apply!
#Hackathon #ESHackathon
Martin Westgate retweeted
Open-science practices don't (all) require big investments of time and effort. This great post by @daxkellie and @westgatecology introduces small and achievable steps to improve R code reproducibility that can have a big impact ecoevocommunity.nature.com/p…
Martin Westgate retweeted
We've just released the FrogID dataset 4.0. Almost 𝙝𝙖𝙡𝙛 𝙖 𝙢𝙞𝙡𝙡𝙞𝙤𝙣 #frog records. That’s more than double all other frog records gathered since @FrogIDAus launched in 2017. Created by over 23,000 people recording #frogs across #Australia. 🐸💚
australian.museum/blog/amri-…
Martin Westgate retweeted
I love this #dataviz for a few different reasons!
1. How interesting the general spatila patterns in plumage trends (South-East redder, North green/yellow, West pinker etc). Is it adaptive?
🤔
Has anyone ever studied this?
@BirdlifeOz @D0CT0R_Dave @Twitchathon
In the world of #dataviz sometimes art meets science! 🖌👩🔬
We plotted parrot data in the ALA to celebrate #WorldParrotDay 🦜 using the dominant plumage shades for each genus 🌈 and created some accidental art in the process!
Watch out Monet 🎨 @accidental_aRt
#rstats #Rtistry
ALT map of Australia with multi-coloured data points
Martin Westgate retweeted
In the world of #dataviz sometimes art meets science! 🖌👩🔬
We plotted parrot data in the ALA to celebrate #WorldParrotDay 🦜 using the dominant plumage shades for each genus 🌈 and created some accidental art in the process!
Watch out Monet 🎨 @accidental_aRt
#rstats #Rtistry
ALT map of Australia with multi-coloured data points
Ok random question: is there an R package for accessing the @TroveAustralia API? Surely there must be, right?! #rstats
Martin Westgate retweeted
We're looking for 2 #SoftwareEngineering superstars to join our team! 🌟🌟
If you’re a #FullStackDeveloper excited to work on #OpenSource products, have experience with Java, Python, JS or Groovy, Cloud environments, Linux, git & databases, then apply!
spr.ly/6010Oipmj
Martin Westgate retweeted
Really great discussion here about code and reproducibility (& an assumption that one needs to code to be reproducible). Perhaps something we should discuss at the next @sortecoevo conference?
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Seems like my responses to this aren't visible for some reason, so here's my view on what's happening here - a 🧵
Hi @atlaslivingaust. As the owner of the largest biodiversity database in Australia, and considered to be the go-to source by ecologists and others for such data, can I suggest you turn your attention to some curation of said data.
In summary:
- we can't change everything about the data in ALA
- some problems we can fix, and we're working on it
- feedback like this really helps us spot errors, and prioritise fixes
Thanks again @TimBarlow3 for bringing this up
original thread here:
nitter.cf/westgatecology/status/…
