Year: 2017

As many of you already know, I’m a big fan of PolyCounter from Takeshi Nakagawa (find it here if you haven’t yet: http://polsystems.rits-palaeo.com/). PolyCounter introduced a modern way to acquiring data of Quaternary-palaeo-ecological samples, replacing the old-fashioned pen and paper by your computer. With PolyCounter, your counting data are instantly accumulated and stored in a numeric file, which is just what you need before you can actually visualise your data, and eventually apply fancy statistics on them.

https://giphy.com/embed/DHqth0hVQoIzS

Some potential users, however, have a (legitimate) fear of loosing data. Well, I would first argue that backing up data is one’s self duty, and actually a most-recommened practise for any kind of numerical data. But, regarding these counting data, I would mostly tell about particular features of PolyCounter.

Last week was a short one. Thursday was off, and in such circumstances, people here usually also take the Friday off, and enjoy a looooong week-end. More explanations about this phenomenon in this video: https://www.youtube.com/embed/0-6sM0vo9Tk

I took this opportunity to work on a rather big project I’m truly dreaming of since years: plotting palynological diagrams with R! Since my Master studies, I’m using Tilia, which I became good at. I can produce complete, elegant diagrams, from scratch, in only a few hours. https://giphy.com/embed/CDJo4EgHwbaPS