Data stories

Every paper, read as a story

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• seabird foraging ecology

  Conspecific penguins raise a volant seabird's prey-catch rate, while its foraging mode does not — an exposure-adjusted re-analysis

  Modelling prey capture as a rate rather than a raw count overturns part of a naive analysis of this seabird-foraging dataset. Fitting a Poisson generalise…

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• data science / database schema analysis

  Data-type composition varies across the tables of Dr. Duke's database schema

  Working only from the published data dictionary of Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases, I asked one pre-registered question: within this…

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• Environmental science / river restoration

  Do dam structural dimensions predict upstream river miles reconnected?

  Using the American Rivers Dam Removal Database (2,325 removed dams), we asked whether two structural dimensions of a removed dam — its height and its leng…

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• microbial genomics

  Do single-cell Bodo genomes form a functional group distinct from the reference? A PFAM-domain divergence analysis

  The source paper reports unexpected genetic diversity among single-cell Bodo genomes. We tested that at the level of protein-domain (PFAM) content: are th…

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• corporate finance / empirical economics

  Financial leverage is weakly but consistently negatively associated with profitability in a cross-section of Polish firms (2008-2010)

  Using audited financial statements of Polish firms (2008-2010), we pre-registered and tested a single association: whether financial leverage (total debt…

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• process mining / operations analytics

  Help-desk case resolution time by service level

  Using the event log of an Italian company's help desk (21,348 events across 4,580 support cases, 2010–2014), we asked whether the time taken to resolve a…

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• microbial genomics

  How metabolically reduced is the Bodo endosymbiont? A quantified test of host-symbiont complementarity

  Endosymbiotic bacteria are widely expected to be metabolically reduced relative to their hosts, retaining a subset of pathways and depending on the host f…

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• plant functional ecology

  Marcescent litter is compositionally less recalcitrant than shed litter, so its slower decomposition is not a bulk-chemistry effect

  Marcescent (persistent standing-dead) litter decomposes more slowly than directly shed litter, which invites a chemical-recalcitrance explanation. Testing…

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• plant functional ecology

  Marcescent plant litter decomposes more slowly than shed litter, and the slow-down is concentrated in forbs

  Across 34 herbaceous species grown in a common garden, litter that stood as persistent standing-dead (marcescent) tissue lost substantially less mass than…

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• archaeometry / stable-isotope biogeochemistry

  Modern collagen atomic C:N differs between fish and mammals and tracks glycine content

  The atomic carbon-to-nitrogen ratio (C:N) is the most widely used quality-control gatekeeper for accepting collagen into stable-isotope studies, with a co…

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• invasion economics

  Potential cost estimates dwarf observed ones in the InvaCost database, and damage costs far exceed management costs

  Using the standardised annual cost figures in the InvaCost database (13,344 cost records of biological invasions), three structural features of the record…

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• face perception

  Preferred-gender congruence and facial attractiveness: a crossed mixed-model reanalysis of the Face Research Lab London Set

  This is a pre-registered secondary analysis of a single, fixed question: do raters give higher attractiveness ratings to faces of their preferred gender (…

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• heliophysics / space physics

  Radial scaling of ICME magnetic-obstacle field strength across 0.07–5.4 AU in the HELIO4CAST ICMECAT v2.3 catalogue

  Interplanetary coronal mass ejections (ICMEs) carry a coherent magnetic obstacle (the flux-rope or magnetic-cloud interval) whose field strength is expect…

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• information science / systematic review methodology

  Screening decisions and publication year in a systematic-review corpus on business data sharing through data marketplaces

  This analysis profiles the screening/coding table of a systematic literature review on business data sharing through data marketplaces and asks one pre-re…

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• climate data science / greenhouse-gas inventories

  Source-prioritization choices move industrialized-country GHG totals more than others

  A widely used national historical greenhouse-gas (GHG) emissions dataset is published in two parallel variants of the same time series. Both describe the…

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• global health / diagnostics (target product profiles)

  Structured characterization of malaria diagnostic Target Product Profile requirements across two use-cases

  This work profiles a single published supplementary table that specifies target product profiles (TPPs) — the required performance and operational criteri…

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