Lars,

Your insights have been helpful lately, thank you! I am going to give it a try.

Relative to software like R, did it take some time to get comfortable using, or is it fairly easy to work with?

Best,

Travis

Hi Travis!

As a research technician, I leave most of the hypethesis testing data analysis to our post grad and grad students and I have therefore next to no experience with the various R packages - such as:  

amt: Animal Movement Tools

Manage and analyze animal movement data. The functionality of 'amt' includes methods to calculate home ranges, track statistics (e.g. step lengths, speed, or turning angles), prepare data for fitting habitat selection analyses, and simulation of space-use from fitted step-selection functions.

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We have had students attend the animove course as part of their PhD progamme:

It seems to require prior knowledge of R scripting.

Best regards,

Lars

Hi Travis! 

I'm a developer in the Firetail team and also worked with R a lot during my PhD. 

The goals of both projects are quite different. Using Firetail definitely does not mean you can no longer use R or vice versa. Firetail's focus is on the interactive, visual exploration and annotation of your data. It is meant to be used by scientists, conservationists or stakeholders analysing their projects. 

It may be used to pinpoint regions/time-windows and visualize data suitable for downstream analysis in R, or generate reports regularily. Firetail won't replace algorithm X using a distinct set of parameters as required by reviewer R, but it will help to understand your data and tell the story.

The basic workflows of Firetail are meant to be intuitive and we seek to support a wide range of data out of the box (plus, 1:1 customer service when you run into problems). 
We also implement additional workflows based on ideas that we receive from you all and seek to integrate interfaces to whatever upstream/downstream tools you require for your daily work.

Feel free to contact me ([email protected]) for specific questions or just use this thread :)

Best,
Tobias

Hi Tobias!

This is great to hear. This seems to be exactly what I am looking for as I approach my accelerometry data, looking to identify certain behaviors through thresholds then manually verify. This sounds like a great compliment to what I've done in R with the data so far. Thanks for the info! I will most definitely give this a try!

I may take you up on the offer of emailing you with a couple quick questions once I start (I appreciate that!)

Best,

Travis

Perfect. Looking forward to hearing from you!