I am very, very happy to announce that I have been selected to be one of the fourteen Moore Data Driven Discovery Investigators.
This is a signal investment by the Moore Foundation into the burgeoning area of data-intensive science, and it is quite a career booster. It will provide my …
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Note: the source data for this is available on github at https://github.com/ctb/dddi
Today, the Moore Foundation announced that they have selected fourteen Moore Data Driven Discovery Investigators.
In reverse alphabetical order, they are:
Dr. Ethan White, University of Florida
Proposal: Data-intensive forecasting and prediction for ecological …
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At the NIH ADDS meeting, we had several breakout sessions. Michelle Dunn and I led the training session. For this breakout, we had the following agenda:
First, build "sticky-note clouds", with one sticky-note cloud with notes for each of the following topics:
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In Extracting shotgun reads based on coverage in the data set, we showed how to get a read coverage spectrum for a shotgun data set. This is a useful diagnostic tool that can be used to estimate total genome size, average coverage, and repetitive content.
Uses for this recipe include …
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I am pleased to announce that Dr. Greg Wilson will be giving a two-day Software Carpentry Instructor Training workshop at UC Davis, January 6-7, 2015. This will be an in-person version of the instructor training that Greg runs every quarter; see my blog post about the first such instructor training …
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As I mentioned, I am hoping to significantly scale up my training efforts at UC Davis; it's one of the reasons they hired me, it's a big need in biology, and I'm enthusiastic about the whole thing! A key point is that, at least at the beginning, it may replace …
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