Before we start


Short Introduction to Programming in Python


Starting With Data


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Weight by Species Site Count per species site


Figure 2

average weight across all species for each plot

Figure 3

total males versus total females for the entire dataset

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Stacked Bar Plot

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Stacked Bar Plot

Indexing, Slicing and Subsetting DataFrames in Python


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indexing diagramslicing diagram


Figure 2

average weight for each plot per sex

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average weight for each plot per sex

Data Types and Formats


Combining DataFrames with Pandas


Figure 1

average weight for each year, grouped by sex

Figure 2

Inner join -- courtesy of codinghorror.com

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Left Join

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taxa per plot

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taxa per plot

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taxa per plot per sex

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taxa per plot per sex

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taxa per plot per sex

Figure 9

horizontal bar chart of diversity index by plot

Data Workflows and Automation


Making Plots With plotnine


Figure 1

scatter plot of hindfoot length vs weight with black dots denoting individual sampled animals, showing 4 main clusters of dots in the middle and left middle sides

Figure 2

bar chart of count of rodents caught at each plot site

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scatter plot of hindfoot-length vs weight of rodents,  showing a curve increasing to a plateau

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scatter plot of hindfoot-length vs weight  of rodents, demonstrating overplotting

Figure 5

scatter plot of Hindfoot length vs weight with colors coordinating to specfic species, showing abundance in the mid to lower left side of the plot

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scatter plot of Hindfoot length vs weight (g) with colors coordinating to specfic species, showing abundance in the mid to lower left side of the plot

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Scatterplot of hindfoot length versus weight where logarithmic x-axis is used to distribute lower numbers

Figure 8

Scatterplot of hindfoot length versus weight on a logarithmic x-axis using a white background

Figure 9

Bar chart of counts of males (yellow) and females (blue) vs plot id, showing the number of females to be higher in all plots

Figure 10

boxplot showing distribution of rodent weight for each species group

Figure 11

Boxplot of weight by species overlaying observation points to visualize the distribution

Figure 12

Violin plot of weight of species shown with weight scaled down and datapoints with color.

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Line graph of count per year where data for each species is indicated by a different color

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2 scatter plots, one for males and the other for females, of hindfoot length vs weight with colored dots denoting specific species, showing the trend is the same between both male and females of multiple species

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24 individual scatter plots of Hindfoot length vs weight of species with colors denoting species and numbers above plot representing 1 of the 24 plots, showing trends for each unique plot id studied

Figure 16

Set of 4 color scatterplots showing the relationship between weight and hind foot length for 13 species, separated by sex and year

Figure 17

Bar graph of count per year showing ovelapping x-axis labels

Figure 18

Bar graph of count per year demonstrating how the theme function rotates the x-axis labels

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Bar graph of count per year demonstrating the use of a customized theme