Category Archives: Data Exploration

Some (finalish) results!

Posted on May 17, 2013 by Andy Farke

Matt and I have been meeting weekly for the past three weeks to have ODP work days–just to crank through analyses, etc. Mostly, it’s a matter of sitting down and forcing each other to do stuff. Matt’s posting soon, but … Continue reading →

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Presentation Draft – Early Results

Posted on October 12, 2012 by Andy Farke

On Saturday, I’ll be giving a short presentation about (very) preliminary results from the ODP, for the 1st Annual Southwest Regional Joint DVM&DCB (Division of Vertebrate Morphology and Division of Comparative Biology) meeting of SICB (Society of Integrative and Comparative … Continue reading →

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On continua and categories in paleoecology. . .or, an example application of ODP data

Posted on July 14, 2011 by Andy Farke

Today we’re delighted to have a guest post from Dr. Chris Noto, a new assistant professor at University of Wisconsin-Parkside, and an old friend of mine from our graduate school days together at Stony Brook University. Chris has had a … Continue reading →

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Forelimb Proportions, Ternary Style

Posted on November 16, 2010 by Andy Farke

An important part of our manuscript will simply be a description of limb proportions in ornithischian dinosaurs. For this, ternary plots really have no parallel. These graphs simultaneously plot three variables in two dimensions on an equilateral triangle. And wouldn’t … Continue reading →

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By Popular Demand. . .

Posted on March 10, 2010 by Andy Farke

As a follow-up to our last post on thyreophorans, here are marginocephalians (ceratopsians and pachycephalosaurs) with some of their outgroups. Moving or removing the uncertainly-placed Stenopelix has little effect on character reconstruction.

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Data Are Pretty

Posted on March 9, 2010 by Andy Farke

Now that we’ve gotten a reasonable phylogeny hammered out, it’s time to start putting it to use! Just for fun, I used the (open source and free to download) program Mesquite to plot the femur:tibia ratio (as John Dziak had … Continue reading →

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Mid-December Update

Posted on December 13, 2009 by Andy Farke

We’re long overdue for an update post. Many of our regular contributors, and a few new ones, have kept the data rolling in. Now, we’ve got over 1,400 verified entries! Thank you to everyone who has helped out with this … Continue reading →

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Big News Tomorrow (and a Plot)

Posted on October 20, 2009 by Andy Farke

Late tomorrow we look forward to bringing you a Big Project Announcement (well, more of a Big Project Promotion). So, tune in then for more details. In the meantime, enjoy this new plot of our data. The other day Tor … Continue reading →

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Plot of the Moment

Posted on October 16, 2009 by Andy Farke

Every once in awhile, it’s fun to plot up the data and see what they look like. Lately, it’s been especially fun because our data set just keeps on growing and growing! Right now, we have 425 436 455 verified … Continue reading →

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Can We Get A Hand?

Posted on September 23, 2009 by Andy Farke

Or at least some measurements of hands? One of the things we’d love to do with the ODP data is investigate the way that the proportions of the fingers and toes, phalanges and unguals, metacarpals and metatarsals, changed through evolution. … Continue reading →

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