Done!

Thanks you guys!

Update: 5/1

The revised methods are in the dropbox, and I'm working to correct them (along with the intro) based on the suggested edits. Sara has made the slides for these portions and I believe they'll be posted to dropbox soon (Alex please check). Nick's data analysis is up, and we're waiting to get some feedback on what still needs to be analyzed or written up. Great job, guys!

Update 4/24

Sara, Nick, and I met with Ian over the stats, and we're chugging through. I brought the methods section to writing group for discussion, and the revised copies are still trickling back in. We're getting there! Yay!

And the hits just keep on coming...

Hey again,
As you have no doubt heard by now, I've got the complete data set. It is a glorious 250,000 lines of data (plus, I've tested it in R and it works beautifully!).
Still working on how exactly to do the stats, but now that the data are in a useful format, this part should be fairly straightforward (hopefully). Also, I've been getting help from both Ian and Eli so this thing is as good as done!
-Nick

Stats coming along

Hey everyone,
I just had a fruitful meeting with Eli Swanson (another grad student from the Holekamp lab) concerning our statistics and how to work with the tremendous amount of data in R.
At this point, it looks like the multiple regression with ANOVAs is our best bet. This will essentially tell us how each response variable is affecting things like percent signaling, fitness, etc...
The good news is that this should be far less complicated than I was initially thinking it would be (or at least now I just understand it better). I'm going to start writing my R scripts now that I understand what needs to be done (as soon I'm done for the day here in the lab).
I'll continue to keep you all updated on this process as things happen.
-Nick

Otherness and Fury: The Avida LAN party progress report

So, we've spent the last several hours running scripts on the hpcc gateway. We decided to go with plan B (running two runs: one with signaling and one without). We've got a good portion of our data and most of the runs are completed (or in process). Also, Alex is working on scripting something to make the tremendous volume of data more usable.
As far as the writing is concerned, we have completed a draft of the methods section, the title and abstract, and the acknowledgements all in the requirements for PLoS
We have made some progress on the statistics portion of the project as well.
Also, toad-panther and eel-worm.

Gnome-fria

Sara ended the evening with a Pfennig-fox, culminating in a bloody lip.

ha!

first!