Informatics and Programming Portfolio

I have extensive experience in programming and statistical analysis in R, R-Markrkdown, Shiny and some experience in LaTeX, HTML and Python. Examples of my programming, statistical and web development background include:

• My personal webpage, https://swampthingecology.org was written using R-Markrkdown and HTML.

• Blog contributions (in R-Markrkdown) related to all things science including geospatial analysis at https://swampthingecology.org/blog/

• R package devleopment including my first package, “AnalystHelper” and “EPGMr”.

• Statistical analysis with R featured in several peer-reviewed and technical manuscripted (see Publications page).

• Automated report generation using R-Markdown:

  1. South Florida Estuary Salinity Report
     • This report is generated daily to support the flow of information related to Lake Okeechobee, the Caloosahatchee River and St. Lucie estuaries.
  2. Caloosahatchee River Estuary Water Quality
     • This report focuses specifically on water quality (i.e. nutrients) conditions within the Caloosahatchee River estuary with a environmental regulatory spin displaying and distilling several years of data into one graphic.
       
  3. South Dade Environmental Information
     • This report/page was developed to help inform planning efforts surrounding changes to water management in the region.
  4. Interactive Water Quality Data Explorer
     • This report is an interactive application developed in R/R-Markdown with the Shiny package to actively interact with water quality data collected wihtin the Florida Coastal Everglades LTER.

• Version control with GitHub, my profile name is SwampThingPaul.

• Database experience in MS Access and database interface with R.

• Geographic Information Systems (GIS) experience with ArcGIS, R and some experience in QGIS.

• Graphic editing experience with Inkscape.

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