Meerkats Against Patriarchy

This repository contains the project materials for “Meerkats Against Patriarchy” (data-journalism / thesis-based portfolio project).

What’s in here

• Project page (HTML): meerkats-against-patriarchy.html
• Project text (Markdown): meerkats-against-patriarchy.md
• Figure outputs: figures/ (includes figures/CallProportions.png)
• Photos: pics/
• Data: data/ (RDS files used by the plotting script)
• Scripts: scripts/

Preview locally

From the repository root:

python -m http.server 8000

Then open:

• http://localhost:8000/meerkats-against-patriarchy.html

Regenerate the call-proportions figure

The page includes figures/CallProportions.png, generated from a fitted brms model and PROP_data.

1) Requirements

• R installed
• A working Stan backend (this project used CmdStanR originally)

Install required R packages:

install.packages(c("brms", "dplyr", "tidyr", "tidybayes", "ggplot2", "ggdist"))

2) Provide the fitted model locally

Large fitted model files are ignored by git:

• models/*.rds is in .gitignore

To regenerate the figure you need the model file available locally at:

• models/B_prop.rds

3) Run the script

From the repo root:

Rscript scripts/b_prop_interactive.R

This will write:

• figures/CallProportions.png

Generate milestone-age figures (SEMI / PEAK DIG / FULL)

If you have the three milestone models available locally:

• models/SEMI_anova.rds
• models/DIG_PEAK_anova.rds
• models/FULL_anova.rds

You can generate milestone figures (by treatment × sex) with:

Rscript scripts/milestones_figures.R

Outputs:

• figures/Milestone_SEMI.png
• figures/Milestone_DIG_PEAK.png
• figures/Milestone_FULL.png
• figures/Milestones_Combined.png