data-science

Compressed formats, Zarr and Parquet scale much better for retrieving, reading, and storing USGS discharge time series data.

Convert wide water quality data wide to long with new tidyverse convention.

Exploring file format options in R.

About the USGS Water Data for the Nation blog.

Qualitative, diverging, and sequential color schemes by Paul Tol.

An analysis showing how to find the place in the US furthest from water.

Brief introduction to version control, Git, and GitHub; plus, resources for learning more.

Basic mapping in R with the maps and ggmap package

Identifying boxplot limits and styles in ggplot2.

Resources for plotting, plus short examples for using ggplot2 for common use-cases and adding USGS style.

More advanced data munging techniques in R that were not covered in the Intro to R class.

Brief introduction to the series of posts about next steps after learning basic R, plus some tips on best practices for scripting in R.