Exploratory Data Analysis Skill

Part of the AlterLab Academic Skills suite. Perform comprehensive exploratory data analysis on scientific data files across 200+ file formats. This skill should be used when analyzing any scientific data file to understand its structure, content, quality, and characteristics. Automatically detects file type and generates detailed markdown reports with format-specific analysis, quality metrics, and downstream analysis recommendations. Covers chemistry, bioinformatics, microscopy, spectroscopy, proteomics, metabolomics, and general scientific data formats.

Design and execute insect population surveys covering survey design, sampling methods, field execution, specimen identification, diversity index calculation including Shannon-Wiener and Simpson indices, statistical analysis, and reporting. Covers defining survey objectives, selecting study sites, determining sampling intensity and replication, choosing sampling methods appropriate to target taxa, standardizing collection effort, recording environmental covariates, identifying specimens to the lowest practical taxonomic level, calculating species richness, Shannon-Wiener diversity (H'), Simpson diversity (1-D), evenness, rarefaction curves, multivariate ordination, and producing survey reports with species lists and conservation implications. Use when conducting baseline biodiversity assessments, monitoring insect populations over time, comparing insect communities across habitats or treatments, assessing environmental impact, or supporting conservation planning with quantitative ecological data.

Fit cognitive drift-diffusion models (Ratcliff DDM) to reaction time and accuracy data with parameter estimation (drift rate, boundary separation, non-decision time), model comparison, and parameter recovery validation. Use when modeling binary decision-making with reaction time data, estimating cognitive parameters from experimental data, comparing sequential sampling model variants, or decomposing speed-accuracy tradeoff effects into latent cognitive components.

Designs an A/B test or experiment with clear hypothesis, variants, success metrics, sample size, and duration. Use when planning experiments to validate product changes or test hypotheses.

Differential gene expression analysis (Python DESeq2). Identify DE genes from bulk RNA-seq counts, Wald tests, FDR correction, volcano/MA plots, for RNA-seq analysis.

YOLO mode. Spawns 4 parallel C-suite agents (CEO, CTO, CFO, COO). Each analyzes the business from their perspective using ALL available data. Produces unfiltered Hard Truths report. After user types YOLO, autonomously runs the business for a day using /loop.