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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Yesterday morning, we announced a Software Carpentry workshop here at UC Davis, running July 6-7 -- see the Web site for more information. I'm organizing, and Easton White and Noam Ross are co-lead instructors. (This is the first workshop I'm running since we became an affiliate!)
I'd love it if you …
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We just finished teaching the second of my RNAseq workshops at UC Davis -- the fifth workshop I've hosted since I took a faculty position here in VetMed. In order, we've done a Train the Trainers, a Data Carpentry, a reference-guided RNAseq assembly workshop, a mothur (microbial ecology) workshop, and a …
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Here are some statistics from this year's applications to the NGS course. Briefly, this is a two-week workshop on sequence analysis at the command line and in the cloud.
The short version is that demand remains high; note that we admit only 24 applicants, so generally < 20%...
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Here at the Lab for Data-Intensive Biology (TM) we are constantly trying to explore new ideas for advancing the practice of biological data sciences. Below are some ideas that originated with or were sharpened by conversations with Greg Wilson (Executive Director, Software Carpentry) and Tracy Teal (Project Lead, Data Carpentry …
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