Methods
Methods, made visible.
Four ways to turn biological and public data into a decision you can inspect.

Variance breakdown
A Bad Year, or a Bad Place?
Built in
Grapevine Red Blotch Virus gene data, UC Davis
Re-tested on
World crop yield data, 1961-2023 (FAOSTAT)

Effort normalization
When More Records Do Not Mean More Disease
Built in
GBIF occurrence data for Xylella fastidiosa
Re-tested on
Country-level outbreak surveillance

Exposure normalization
Count Research Relative to the Crop
Built in
OpenAlex AI plant-disease publications
Re-tested on
FAOSTAT world crop production, 2023

Causal mediation
Is It the Heat, or the Virus?
Built in
Grapevine Red Blotch Virus transcriptomics, UC Davis
Re-tested on
FAOSTAT world crop production, 1961-2023