{"cells": [{"cell_type": "markdown", "metadata": {}, "source": ["# Exercise 9.1: Exploration of bee sperm data\n", "\n", "<hr>"]}, {"cell_type": "markdown", "metadata": {}, "source": ["Neonicotinoid pesticides are thought to have inadvertent effects on service-providing insects such as bees. A study of this was [featured in the New York Times](http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/29/science/neonicotinoid-insecticide-bee-sperm.html) in 2016. The original paper is [Straub, et al.,  Proc. Royal Soc. B 283(1835): 20160506](http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2016.0506). Straub and coworkers put their [data in the Dryad repository](http://dx.doi.org/10.5061/dryad.bs515), which means we can work with it!\n", "\n", "(Do you see a trend here? If you want people to think deeply about your results, explore them, learn from them, further science with them, *make your data publicly available.* Strongly encourage the members of your lab to do the same.)\n", "\n", "We will look at the weight of drones (male bees) using the data set stored in `~/git/bootcamp/data/bee_weight.csv` and the sperm quality of drone bees using the data set stored in `~/git/bootcamp/data/bee_sperm.csv`.\n", "\n", "**a)** Load the drone weight data in as a Pandas `DataFrame`.  Note that the unit of the weight is milligrams (mg).\n", "\n", "**b)** Plot ECDFs of the drone weight for control and also for those exposed to pesticide. Do you think there is a clear difference?\n", "\n", "**c)** Repeat parts (a) and (b) for drone sperm. Use the `'Quality'` column as your measure. This is defined as the percent of sperm that are alive in a 500 \u00b5L sample.\n", "\n", "**d)** Make any other plots you may think are interesting or enlightening."]}, {"cell_type": "markdown", "metadata": {}, "source": ["<br />"]}], "metadata": {"anaconda-cloud": {}, "kernelspec": {"display_name": "Python 3", "language": "python", "name": "python3"}, "language_info": {"codemirror_mode": {"name": "ipython", "version": 3}, "file_extension": ".py", "mimetype": "text/x-python", "name": "python", "nbconvert_exporter": "python", "pygments_lexer": "ipython3", "version": "3.7.7"}}, "nbformat": 4, "nbformat_minor": 4}