When I decided to move to UC Davis, I was also seizing the opportunity to dramatically expand my training efforts. At Davis, it was made clear to me that I could substitute skills training -- in whatever guise I chose -- for my for-credit teaching; in consequence, I'd asked for money for …
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On Friday, Emily Dolson, a doctoral student at Michigan State University in Charles Ofria's lab, walked a bunch of us through d3.js for data visualization. Crucially, she did this from Michigan, and in addition to a local classroom, taught three other classrooms -- one in Florida, one in Virginia, and …
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Every year since 2010, I've been the primary organizer for a summer workshop on Analyzing Next Generation Sequencing Data. In 2010 and 2011, I was funded internally by the Gene Expression in Disease and Development group at MSU; since 2012, I've had a $50,000/yr grant from the NIH …
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Continuing our efforts to bring bioinformatics training to a wider audience while maintaining small class sizes, we're trying something new! This Friday at noon Eastern/9am Pacific, Emily Dolson will be teaching a half day d3.js lesson to a class at Michigan State University …
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What are the most concretely useful, interesting, awesome or neat things about Project Jupyter?
Over here at the Lab for Data Intensive Biology, we're putting on a workshop on Project Jupyter notebooks (the notebook system formerly known as IPython Notebook). This will be a two-day hands-on workshop, Carpentry-style, with the …
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I've often wanted to mark up arbitrary Web sites with annotations and reminders, and it's always been puzzling to me that this is missing from the Web. In recent years, I've heard more and more about a small non-profit called Hypothesis, which provides this general functionality via both a Chrome …
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On June 11th, 2010, I remember dropping the last workshop attendee off at the Kalamazoo train station, turning the car towards home, and nearly sobbing in relief that workshop was over and done and I could finally get some sleep now. That workshop was the first of a series of …
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