I've been using EBSeq for a few things lately, and have had trouble getting some of the dependencies installed -- in particular, gplots doesn't seem to be readily available for R 2.14, 2.15, etc. Judging by my Google searches, others have been having the same problems; see e.g …
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Dear <student>,
I'd be happy to, but I do have a few conditions/requests based on prior experience with students!
First, please schedule all of your meetings at least 2 months in advance :)
Second, a condition for my signing off on your thesis will be that, for any paper for …
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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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This was some great advice from Thomas Wolff, one of our Associate Deans in the College of Engineering. He sent it out to the undergraduate students at MSU. I am reposting it here with his permission. --titus
Dear Spartan Engineering Students,
I am writing you today on a matter important …
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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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