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I've recently started getting into computational archaeology and found the entire ecosystem is built around R, meaning I am now starting to learn about it. Anyo

by exdsq 5y ago

I've recently started getting into computational archaeology and found the entire ecosystem is built around R, meaning I am now starting to learn about it. Anyone have a suggestion of the standard books/courses one should start with? I found it pretty interesting that the alternative to R is Haskell for general CLI tools! Seeing some open issues in a popular tool for dealing with ancient DNA (aDNA) about making invalid states impossible within the type system made me genuinely laugh out loud in amazement. I didn't expect that level of technical knowledge within the world of archaeology.

mst 5y ago
Any chance of sharing which tool(s)? I know some people who're involved in making the haskell ecosystem a better place for less mainstream users and I'm pretty sure they'd want to know more about this. (and if it turns out they already know, -I- don't, and that sounds pretty cool and fun to read up on :)
- exdsq 5y ago
  Sure! It’s the department of archaeogenetics at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology https://poseidon-framework.github.io/#/ https://poseidon-framework.github.io/#/
  - mst 5y ago
    Much appreciated, passed on in the hopes it's useful, and when it's not 0030 and I'm awake enough to actually understand any of it I'll be having a read through myself. Cheers!
    - exdsq 5y ago
      I’m a total noob but offered my development skills in trade of archaeological domain knowledge, so just getting familiar with the code base myself atm :) if you/your friends wanted any sort of intro to the team I could arrange that as I’m in a slack channel with some of them! Fwiw, it’s mostly a tool for parsing and processing this ‘Jan no’ data schema https://poseidon-framework.github.io/#/janno_details https://poseidon-framework.github.io/#/janno_details
wheelinsupial 5y ago
We used the books Hadley Wickham has published for R courses in my stats program [1]. I supplemented the theory parts of my other courses with some of these [2] R books about using the methods instead of deriving and proving properties about them. There are also some R studio cheat sheets [3]. [1] https://hadley.nz/ https://hadley.nz/ [2] https://www.routledge.com/Chapman--HallCRC-The-R-Series/book-series/CRCTHERSER https://www.routledge.com/Chapman--HallCRC-The-R-Series/book... [3] https://www.rstudio.com/resources/cheatsheets/ https://www.rstudio.com/resources/cheatsheets/

by exdsq 5y ago

mst 5y ago

Any chance of sharing which tool(s)? I know some people who're involved in making the haskell ecosystem a better place for less mainstream users and I'm pretty sure they'd want to know more about this. (and if it turns out they already know, -I- don't, and that sounds pretty cool and fun to read up on :)

exdsq 5y ago
Sure! It’s the department of archaeogenetics at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology https://poseidon-framework.github.io/#/ https://poseidon-framework.github.io/#/
- mst 5y ago
  Much appreciated, passed on in the hopes it's useful, and when it's not 0030 and I'm awake enough to actually understand any of it I'll be having a read through myself. Cheers!
  - exdsq 5y ago
    I’m a total noob but offered my development skills in trade of archaeological domain knowledge, so just getting familiar with the code base myself atm :) if you/your friends wanted any sort of intro to the team I could arrange that as I’m in a slack channel with some of them! Fwiw, it’s mostly a tool for parsing and processing this ‘Jan no’ data schema https://poseidon-framework.github.io/#/janno_details https://poseidon-framework.github.io/#/janno_details

wheelinsupial 5y ago

We used the books Hadley Wickham has published for R courses in my stats program [1]. I supplemented the theory parts of my other courses with some of these [2] R books about using the methods instead of deriving and proving properties about them. There are also some R studio cheat sheets [3]. [1] https://hadley.nz/ https://hadley.nz/ [2] https://www.routledge.com/Chapman--HallCRC-The-R-Series/book-series/CRCTHERSER https://www.routledge.com/Chapman--HallCRC-The-R-Series/book... [3] https://www.rstudio.com/resources/cheatsheets/ https://www.rstudio.com/resources/cheatsheets/