We crossed the 25 million mark at VecDyn!! We now have nearly 500 datasets with over 25 million rows of data spatiotemporal data online, with more in our curatorial pipeline.
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Getting serious on forecast challenge day at VectorByte 2025 workshop!! @vectorbyte.bsky.social

Off to co-teach our @vectorbyte.bsky.social workshop in South Bend!

Time to learn @vectorbyte.bsky.social!

Come visit Notre Dame this summer for our next VectorByte workshop.

Workshop: @vectorbyte.bsky.social is organising a training workshop between June 13-16, 2025 at Notre Dame!

Apply now to learn about #modeling vector abundance and time-dependent data analysis using VecDyn data to answer cool questions!

More details below:
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Apply now!! Learn about modeling vector abundance, use VecDyn data to answer cool questions! June 13-16, 2025, come to the VectorByte training workshop on vector abundance and time-dependent data analysis at Notre Dame!

www.vectorbyte.org/blog/2025wor...

You've seen the curves, maybe you implemented this at a @vectorbyte.bsky.social workshop.
Now live for primetime - bayesTPC in R! Great job VT team!!

This effort builds on years of puzzling through informatics and practical data to build models. You've seen lots of amazing projects using these data types, and hopefully this facilitates more in the future! FAIR principles matter.

In this preprint, we describe this head-scratcher of a devs challenge, and present an information standard designed to be sufficient, not onerous, and flexible. We also illustrate (nicely done, @phuxley.bsky.social) the value of disaggregated data for parameter estimation.

Traits are measured in experiments, or quasi-experimental design, mostly. But they can be many measurements of many things! So any data standard must be flexible, and information can be iterated. As we discovered over several years, developing VecTraits database doi.org/10.7274/2802...

But the data are reported in so many different ways in the literature, sometimes in aggregate, sometimes with some units specified, and others not... this makes comparisons and synthesis (think replication and reuse), complicated.
What is the minimum amount of information needed?

New VectorByte preprint! Introducing MIReVTD, a Minimum Information Standard for Reporting Vector Trait Data.
Vector trait data are essential to modeling vector-borne diseases, understanding impacts of intervention, and more.

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Learn about modeling vector abundance, use VecDyn data to answer cool questions! Save the date for the VectorByte training workshop on vector abundance and time-dependent data analysis at Notre Dame in June 2025!!

📢 The American #Mosquito Control Association ( #AMCA) invites short, 1-page pre-proposals (white paper, letter of intent) for evaluating #Culicoides control technologies and related topics for funding for calendar year 2025-2026. Deadline Friday 7 Feb 2025. ➡️
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This is VectorByte's first Bluesky post - we are now here for all of your vector trait and dynamics excitement!!