Fragments.
Notebooks on counting what the record leaves out: unseen species models, coverage, and the biases of the archives we inherit.
- Two ends of a folktale archive: Sagenland and Nachtdienst Two browser games built from the Dutch Folktale Database: collect legends in the field in Sagenland, then file them at the archive by night in Nachtdienst.
- Comparing diversity under collection bias An interactive companion to our Royal Society Interface paper on collection bias: set up two assemblages, bias how their records were collected, and see which standardization strategy still recovers the true diversity ratio.
- What Shall We Do with the Unseen Sailor? Applies unseen species models to VOC historical records to estimate the true number of sailors missing from the archive.
- Estimating Unseen Shared Cultural Diversity Extends unseen species models to estimate the shared diversity between two cultural collections — how many artefacts they have in common that neither has observed.
- Population Size Estimation as a Regression Problem Reframes population size estimation as a Bayesian regression problem to correct for heterogeneous detection probabilities in cultural samples.
- Estimating Richness under Sampling without Replacement Examines how standard unseen species estimators break down under sampling without replacement, and how to correct for it.
- Demystifying Chao1 with Good-Turing How Good-Turing frequency estimation underpins the Chao1 biodiversity estimator — and what that means for counting unseen cultural artefacts.