The Power of Graph Databases as Explored via an Alaskan Food Web
Most of us are familiar with databases on at least some basic level. I maintain a database of plant and animals from Oregon just for my own interest. There are tables that have...
Category: coding
Fun with R-Studio and the Lubridate Library
The statistical package R, and its complement interface R-Studio, combine to form an extremely power team for statistical analysis. And, although the program is command-line driven, it is much more intuitive to use than...
The Benefit of HAM Radio
A set of 2-meter / 70-cm Handheld radios with some other functions including GPS, temperature, FM Radio, and APRS tracking, a 10-meter radio, a 2-meter radio beacon, a remote camera and other odds and...
Three Billion Birds – It’s a Big Number
Three billion birds – It’s a big number A recent report published in the journal Science indicates that there are 3 billion less birds flying around North America today than there were in...
Arduino Environmental Sensor Systems
In partnership with the University of Oregon STEMCORE program and the Oregon Science Teachers Association, the Price Science Commons hosted a workshop on building environmental sensors. I led the session with the help...
Gaming for Conservation
MIT’s App Inventor is an amazing tool for education. We are exploring its use in our Visual Communication and Technology class that I am teaching with an independent study student. One of the basic...
The UO Media Center for Science & Technology
The University of Oregon has a new center in the School of Journalism and Communication. It’s called the Media Center for Science and Technology. The goal of the center is to train journalists, communicators,...
Coding, Computers, & Generative Art
This winter I am teaching a class on visual communication and one of the projects for the class will likely be a quick exploration of generative art. This is art that is created using...