Summary Check the Calendar listing for data analysis workshops links and registration forms. Below are workshop dates for SSCC, Madison chapter of Software Carpentry, and Steenbock Library series. Social Science Computing Cooperative (SSCC) The table below shows only the R and Python courses. See complete listing at https://sscc.wisc.edu/sscc_jsp/training/ Title Date Time Instructor Introduction to Python …
Virusworld. was hosted since its inception at the Institute for Molecular Virology in 1993/1994 at the dawn of the World Wide Web and was retired on the first week of July 2022. I was the main author and curator of the web site which was started to disseminate virus depictions based on X-ray crystallography …
The Carpentries The University of Wisconsin–Madison is a Platinum Member Organization of the THE CARPENTRIES that comprise 3 communities: the Software Carpentry, Data Carpentry, and Library Carpentry. There is a lot of enthusiasm around the Caprentries at UW Madison as reported by this carpentry blog by UW–Madison Lauren Michael, now Lead Research Computational Facilitator at …
w3schools: Learn to Code On the w3schools site I was surprised to find a lot more than informational tutorial for Web coding such as CSS or PHP. The site offers a large number of well organized, self-paced tutorials on a much larger scale. Coding languages Here are a few that I find particularly useful to …
Learn X in Y minutes In the past we had “flash cards” to memorize and review materials. This site Learn X in Y minutes has one-page reminders that can be used to re-learn material or get some idea of what the subject is about. For example I wrote a series of 4 posts titled Do …
ORCID: Open Research and Contributor ID I have a rather unique name and finding my publications in Pubmed is usually not very difficult, even though it is not 100% fail proof. An O.R.C.ID is a unique identifier that some journals now require.In fact just last week I had to provide my ORCID to a journal …
Scientists need to communicate The art of communication is often overlooked in a Scientist career, but it is becoming increasingly important that Scientists learn to communicate at different levels. Telling a story is a powerful way to explain and interest people and there are proven techniques that can help. H. Adam Steinberg is a former …
Summary 1. How to easily convert a string of character to appear one character per line> Either of: echo "abcdefg" | fold -w1 echo "abcdefg" | grep -o . 2. How to convert amino acid sequence from one-letter to three-letter or vice versa? Easiest is on a listed web site. 3. How to write the …
UWMadison affiliations The social media landscape is vast and it is easy to miss important connections. For example, I just found out that UW–Madison is a member of “Beyond the Professoriate” (requires NetID login.) with 31 other Universities and Schools (*). The platform offers: “AURORA is a professional development training platform for graduate students and PhDs …
Café des sciences webinar This first collaborative Café des sciences webinar is organized by the Office for Science and Technology of the Consulate General of France in Chicago in collaboration with UW-Madison, the Wisconsin State Lab of Hygiene, and the Wisconsin Dept of Health Services. Title: “Wastewater surveillance for SARS-CoV-2 in Wisconsin“ Time: Tuesday March …