Correlations between climate and conflict are intriguing, but contain little...
Without a clearly tested mechanistic explanation, the correlations between climate change and violent conflict remain without cause. May I humbly suggest structural equation models? Credit: Velvet...
View ArticleStudent liveliness throughout a typical day at ESA
by Andrew Tredennick We all made it! Congratulations on surviving a week of full-on science. Here’s my take on a typical day at ESA as a graduate student. Throughout the week I saw people somewhere...
View ArticleAn academic population model to distill the ‘PhD Problem’
by Andrew Tredennick UPDATE: Wanted to add this link for an ESA lunch session on Aug. 6 called “Beyond Academia“. In the past year or two there has been a deluge of articles (e.g., this, this, and...
View ArticleThis is how I did it… Mapping in R with ‘ggplot2’
by Andrew Tredennick Recently I moved from ArcMap to R do a lot of my spatial analysis and map making. In particular, I’ve started to use the ‘ggplot2’ to create what I think are exceptionally...
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