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Workshops posted for DIBSI - July 10-15, July 17-21
As part of our Summer Institute in Data Intensive Biology, we will be running nine week-long computational workshops from July 10 to July 17 at the University of California, Davis.
Week 1: July 10-15
- Genome Wide Association Study Workshop - Tamer Mansour and Erica Scott
- Undergraduate Curriculum Hackathon
- Introduction to Python …
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Registration reminder for our two-week summer workshop on high-throughput sequencing data analysis!
Our two-week summer workshop (announcement, direct link) is shaping up quite well, but the application deadline is today! So if you're interested, you should apply sometime before the end of the day. (We'll leave applications open as long as it's March 17th somewhere in the world.)
Some updates and expansions …
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Instructor training for teaching computational workshops
As part of our Summer Institute in Data Intensive Biology, we will be running a week-long instructor training from June 18 to June 25 at the University of California, Davis.
The instructor training will include the following --
- Hands-on training in good pedagogical practice!
- Become a certified Software/Data Carpentry instructor …
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2017 - A two-week summer workshop on high-throughput sequencing data analysis!
I am pleased to announce that we will be running a two-week summer workshop on analyzing high-throughput sequencing data! This workshop will run from June 26-July 8th, 2017, and it is an continuation of the two-week NGS workshop run at Michigan State University since 2010. (You can read about the …
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Reproducibility, repeatability, and a workshop in Norway
This March, Andreas Hejnol invited me to give a talk in Bergen, Norway, and as part of the trip I arranged to also give a trial workshop on "computational reproducibility" at the University in Oslo, where my friend & colleague Lex Nederbragt works.
(The workshop materials are here, under CC0.)
The …
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Three remote workshops: regex in Python, scipy.optimize, and building Web sites
We're running three half-day workshops for your remote viewing pleasure! All three will be live-streamed via YouTube (well, Hangouts on Air).
Today 2/17, at 9:15am PT, Tiffany Timbers (Simon Fraser U.) is going to be going through regular expressions in Python - see the workshop description.
On Friday, 2 …
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Our training plans for Q1 & Q2, 2016
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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Three hour local+remote workshops - a first take
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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A d3.js Local + Remote Workshop
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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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Small batch, artisanal, hand-crafted bioinformatics training
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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We're throwing a Software Carpentry! And it's already full...
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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Doing biology, however it needs to be done
Sean Eddy wrote an interesting blog post on how scripting is something every biologist should learn to do. This spurred a few discussions on Twitter and elsewhere, most of which devolved into the usual arguments about what, precisely, biologists should be taught.
I always find these discussions not merely predictable …
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Running Software Carpentry instructor training at UC Davis in January, 2015
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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Software Carpentry trains the trainers
tl;dr? The Software Carpentry train-the-trainers workshop in Toronto this past M-W was just fantastic. I can't recommend it enough.
A bit of background: Software Carpentry is a project to teach scientists to use computing more effectively. Started by Greg Wilson about 16 years ago, the project has progressed through …
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What does responsible conduct of computational research look like?
Greg Wilson, Ethan White and I have been talking a bit about what Responsible Conduct of Research (RCR) standards would look like for computational science. I'm having trouble coming up with more than the below standards, which are largely related to publication.
Note, if you regard these as obvious, that's …
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Teaching scientists how to use computers - hub & spokes
After my recent next-gen sequencing course, which was supposed to tie into the whole software carpentry (SWC) effort but didn't really succeed in doing so the first time through, I started thinking about the Right Way to tie in the SWC material. In particular, how do you both motivate scientists …
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Ohio and Beyond
The last two weeks were pretty miserable, for some scientific/collaboration reasons as well as some personal reasons (visiting sick parents != fun). Two things that weren't miserable -- that were in fact quite fun -- were PyOhio and the Science 2.0 talks in Toronto.
PyOhio was a nice little community-based conference …
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My eSci talk on Software Carpentry
I recently gave an informal talk on Software Carpentry for the Caltech e-Science 101 course. Since even "Intro Software Carpentry" is a whole course of study, I obviously couldn't cover much, but I tried to motivate people to get interested. And, of course, I pushed testing. TESTING, DAMNIT!
Anyway, here …
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