Stephen Formel

@mortonjt THanks for the quick response! You were correct, downgrading pandas got me past that error, but now I've run up against another: `Traceback (most recent call last): File "/lustre/project/svanbael/steve/conda-envs/songbird_env/lib/python3.7/site-packages/matplotlib/font_manager.py",...

The error messages never lie, do they? There was a huge hidden folder in there causing a ruckus. It's functioning now, thanks for your help!

@fedarko I think I understand what you're describing, but for clarification, when you say "personally I prefer just quoting effect sizes", you mean describing the log ratio as an effect...

Like always, thank you for the fast and thoughtful response! The compositional data world is still new to me, and every time I review the Songbird paper or Qurro paper...

@Edagura it sounds like your data might no included biological observations. If that is the case, I don't think it would be a good fit for the workshop. However, it...

@hollybik I echo what Matt and Abby said. If you come up with questions/new blockers on your dataset before the workshop feel free to share them here. It's possible we...

@samprorg this sounds like an interesting dataset! OBIS already has some PR coral datasets that OBIS-USA helped publish ([for example](https://obis.org/dataset/52f99f08-fc90-4684-aea8-a015150968ea)). Can you share a little bit more detail about the...

@williscm Totally get it and that's what we're here to help with. Can you share a sample of your data or some more details about the snags?

Sounds complex, but fun! To be clear, this includes observations and morphometrics that correspond to lobster fishing? Or are they general measurements corresponding to museum/collection specimens?

FWIW, if it's not in that format and you don't mind sharing a link to your data, I'd be happy to take a look and advise you on what steps...