It's not often that someone perfectly and thoroughly summarizes the challenges inherent in data science being confronted by academic institutions, but that's just what Fernando Perez did in this blog post. Just... just go read it, trust me :)
The new data driven discovery centers being funded by Sloan & Moore are …
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I'm on my way back from a great week in England. I spent most of the week in Norwich at The Genome Analysis Center (t-gaaaaaaaack), hosted by Vicky Schneider-Gricar. I gave a talk, taught two workshops together with Aleksandra Pawlik -- one for biologists and one for bioinformaticians -- and met quite …
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I just read Scientific Data - ultimate salami slicing publishing, in which Pedro Beltrao argues that Nature's new journal is simply another venue for them to suck money out of scientists. Maybe. But I'm strongly considering sending a lot of stuff there, and I really think Pedro is missing something very …
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A recent visiting speaker, Dr. Sinead Collins from Edinburgh, mentioned in passing during her talk that she was particularly interested in mentoring and empowering women in science. I am also interested in this, but as a male in a position of power I'm wary of preaching to women on the …
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I recently had the pleasure of meeting with Randy LeVeque, Bill Howe, and Steven Roberts at UW, along with Jory Schossau, after the UW bootcamp that Jory and I ran. I already knew Bill from before (see our conversation on VMs and reproducibility) and Steven had taken the workshop, but …
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I just finished my third workshop in two weeks. I taught 3.5 days of microbial bioinformatics at Caltech, 2 days of intro computing for biologists at MSU, and another 2-day intro computing for biologists workshop at UW. The Caltech workshop was sponsored by CEMI, the Caltech Environmental Microbial Initiative …
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I just finished reading A House in the Sky, by Amanda Lindhout and Sara Corbett. It's an excellent book about Amanda Lindhout's kidnapping and ransom by Somalian Muslims; it's very well written, engaging, and utterly terrifying and horrible to read. Highly recommended.
--titus
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