Daniel's Blog

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Covid-19 (Update)

Covid-19 Statistics for Germany

Visualisation of current cumulative cases of Covid-19 based on the data repository of the Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at Johns Hopkins University.

Posted by Daniel Schmidtke Sunday, February 19, 2023

Science Wordlet

Using a WORDLE-like Mini Game for Science Communication

In this blog post I will develop and implement a concept for how a clone of the popular WORDLE mini game can be used for science communication purposes.

Posted by Daniel Schmidtke Sunday, February 13, 2022

Data Visualization With R

Creating Ready-to-Publish Graphs Using R Base Graphics - Pt4: XY-Plots and Regression Lines

This blog post is the fourth in a series of posts in which I will present R code for the generation of fancy graphs using only R base graphics (instead of ggplot).

Posted by Daniel Schmidtke Friday, January 15, 2021

Bossy Fish are Bad Mentors in a Consensus Task

Are Dominant Individuals the Better Leaders? A Study in Cichlid Fish Suggests Otherwise.

Biologists and neuroscientists from the University of Texas at Austin (USA), the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior in Konstanz (Germany), and the University of Konstanz (Germany) found that, in a species of social, ray-finned fish, the influence of dominant individuals on the behaviour of group members is highly context dependent.

Posted by Daniel Schmidtke Thursday, December 3, 2020

Data Visualization With R

Creating Ready-to-Publish Graphs Using R Base Graphics - Pt3: Box Plots

This blog post is the third in a series of posts in which I will present R code for the generation of fancy graphs using only R base graphics (instead of ggplot).

Posted by Daniel Schmidtke Tuesday, December 1, 2020

Data Visualization With R

Creating Ready-to-Publish Graphs Using R Base Graphics - Pt2: Bootstrapped Confidence Intervals

This blog post is the second in a series of posts in which I will present R code for the generation of fancy graphs using only R base graphics (instead of ggplot).

Posted by Daniel Schmidtke Friday, November 27, 2020