This page will eventually become a collection of my reviews of Environmental Impact Assessments conducted in the Bahamas. The links lead to a Science and Perspective copy of the EIA as published, then a link to my comments on the EIA as submitted to the developer and the Department of Environmental Planning and Protection. I will also include a brief summary of the EIA. Enjoy.

  • Jaccard function by columns

    So, really, I just wrote a function in R to apply the jaccard similarity function to all possible pairs in a series of columns from a data frame and spit out the result in a matrix. I am pretty happy with myself. here is the function and the results so you can now know how…

  • The beatings I remember (1) aka Black Beauty

    I did not know this man from adam, but I knew that he was the father of one of the kids there and that he would be somewhere on campus when I got to high school. And now, he had free license to rough me up if I stepped out of line.

  • GEE and R for Bahamian (and Caribbean) Birds

    Essential to my understanding of science is that everything happens somewhere. and things that do not happen also “don’t happen somewhere”. What that means is that knowing where a bird (or whatever your organism is) is may be as important as knowing where it does not occur. especially for conservation purposes. To get to this…

  • Leno’s new joke June 5 2018

    The chicken saw the perfect kernel of corn. It was so perfect, she could not eat it. It was impeckable. Sent from my iPad

  • Bird occurrence in the Bahamas

    If you have not yet seen Tony White’s Birder’s Guide to the Bahamas, one of the most valuable things I find that he did was his presence absence chart. You can use his chart to find out which Bahamian islands you should visit to see the birds you are interested in. In my dissertation, I…