Emily J. Hudson

evolutionary biologist and data enthusiast | she/they

Biography

Hello, Emily here! I am a behavioral ecologist by training, an R-based data wrangler by necessity, and a storyteller at heart. Check out some of my work below!

When I’m not at my laptop, I might be gardening, watching birds, climbing rocks, sewing, or appreciating cute dogs.

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This website is a work-in-progress as I migrate from Google Sites. Pardon the dust!

Interests

Evolution of behavior
Using data for real-world good
Machine learning
Data visualization

Education

PhD in Biological Sciences (Ecology, Evolution & Behavior concentration), 2018
University of Nebraska - Lincoln
BA in Cognitive Science, 2008
Vassar College

Projects

Nashville Autonomous Recording + BirdNET Project

(In revision) Authors: Abigail Searfoss, Emily Hudson, Nyssa Kantorek, Tara Stanley, Nicole Creanza This project (in progress) aims to examine the effects of various metrics of urbanization on bird song, broadly, in urban greenspace.

Media Mix Modeling Demo

I put together this simple demonstration of a media mix modeling strategy in R to document my process teaching myself this technique. I will use a sample dataset “marketing” from the R package datarium.

Endangered species critical habitat for sale

Land over 100 acres for sale in endangered species habitats

Sister species range maps

Generating kde-based range maps from observance data As part of a project with Megan Mitchell and Nicole Creanza, I used BigQuery on the Google Cloud platform to compile sighting records of 42 species of in the Passerellidae family of sparrows.