I connected with another colleague and was invited to join a call to hear about their environmental informatics project. The work they’re doing is really curriculum-building, so I’m doubtful that any real research will come out of it (though I’m open to being surprised). At this point, it looks to be primarily data visualization stuff. The data is going into a Canvas shell (that I do not yet have access to), which will then become the basis for some type of environmental science curriculum.

Part 16 of “Microbiome Discovery” provides background in supervised learning algorithms.

Part 15 of “Microbiome Discovery” is a presentation on clustering.

Part 14 of “Microbiome Discovery” discusses the concept of constrained ordination.

I started into the analysis of the microbiome data from my colleague, and I think it’s just not going to go anywhere.

Part 13 of “Microbiome Discovery” continues his discussion of visualizations. This video talks about horseshoes and detrending.

Part 12 of “Microbiome Discovery” discusses how microbiome diversity can be visualized. Specifically, he covers PCA (Principal Component Analysis), PCoA (Principal Coordinate Analysis), and NMDS (Nonmetric Multidimensional Scaling).