Orient Isaac to project

[lbuckley]

Notes on projects and initial reading https://docs.google.com/document/d/1JJJ-5pJGam7dYTzAAjHBdEZkHYOVlkc7GdZJk8KfzTU/edit

Prototype analysis using brms package https://github.com/HuckleyLab/SDMpriors/blob/master/SDMpriors_brms.R

[icaruso21]

Hi All,
Here are a few things I'm looking into at the moment:

• Potential to use Bayesplot for analyzing success of Bayesian models.
• Start implementing a training/ testing split in the dataset (maybe use the dataPreparation package).
• Refine GP fit (BRMS) parameters and default STAN priors
• Wrap code into chunks and create the infrastructure needed to easily build and test models for various species and with various model parameters.
  And a question... do we need to scale the data before using it in the BRMS model?