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Importance of Data Normalization in Complex Environmental Data Sets

Prior to making any statistical interference, the distribution of the metal and TSS data is required to be assessed if outlier concentrations are present due to variability in the measurement or experimental error. This pre-processing procedure is referred to as:

Data Normalization

The goal of normalization is to...

t-SNE is so last week, all the cool kids are using UMAP now!

Importance of staying on top of trends as a subject matter expert.

I wrote an article discussing the applications of t-distributed stochastic neighbor embedding (t-SNE) as an improved technique for dimensionality reduction and cluster association comparable to the overused Principal Component Analysis (PCA). Although...

Dealing with Varying Results in PAH Quantification

There is an old adage, often referred to as Segal’s Law, that states: “A man with one watch knows what time it is, a man with two is never sure”. I use this a lot for my work when I am presenting. I am often given data where samples get sent to two different laboratories for the same analyses. It is usually done to...

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