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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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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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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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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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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