Workshops and Special Announcements
Do yourself a favor: learn Markdown – Episode 4. Reproducible reports
The message The essential message is this: stop using Copy/Paste from one program to another (e.g. a chart from Excel to Word) as this is a manual process that is not reproducible and can easily …
June 11, 2021Do yourself a favor: learn Markdown – Episode 3, Academic writing
Academic writing with Markdown The origin of Markdown was a simple editing process to export web pages in HTML. In Episode 1 we learned that (original) Markdown has a simple syntax for enhancing text with rich …
June 10, 2021Do yourself a favor: learn Markdown – Episode 2
In Episode 1: Markdown is easy we saw how Markdown can simplify and streamline the creation of documents while working in easily readable plain text. In this episode we’ll explore: Markdown variations Markdown (free) software …
June 4, 2021Do yourself a favor: learn Markdown – Master it in 10 minutes!
Episode 1: Markdown is easy, keeps things simple Markdown is… Markdown is a plain text formatting syntax that incorporates rich text elements while retaining the ease and readability of plain text. Why learn Markdown? Markdown …
June 3, 2021Google colab is a free cloud notebook environment
Introduction Google Colab is a free cloud-based service that allows the execution of Python code using the Jupyter Notebook format. It is possible to use and install new python libraries. Furthermore it is possible to …
February 5, 2021Data Analysis Workshops Winter 2021
SUMMARY: Check calendar for Free "R" and "Python" workshops (Steenbock Library.) "Introduction to R with RStudio," "Data Wrangling in R" (SSCC - Social Science Computing Cooperative.) "Automating Tasks with the Unix Shell," "Data Management with SQL," "R: introduction / visualization / reports" (Software Carpentry through UW-Madison Data Science (fees apply).)
January 14, 2021Data Analysis Workshops Fall 2020
SUMMARY: Check calendar for Free "R" and "Python" workshops (Steenbock Library.) "Introduction to R with RStudio," "Data Wrangling in R" (SSCC - Social Science Computing Cooperative.) "Automating Tasks with the Unix Shell," "Data Management with SQL," "Introduction to Docker" (Software Carpentry through UW-Madison Data Science (fees apply).)
August 28, 2020Tabular data analysis with R and Tidyverse
Does data analysis feel like the impossible job of "catching the moon?" Fortunately R and RStudio are great tools to analyze data and illustrate conclusions, while at the same time keeping records and create "live" documents that can be updated with "just one click." The material is written in a way that is conducive to "learn by doing" following demonstrations and examples. All code and all necessary materials and files are available and therefore it is possible to learn and acquire proficiency on one's own with this course content.
August 12, 2020bioinformatics tutorials
June 26, 2020. I have added a new entry under the “Tutorials” menu for “bioinformatics” to provide a place for tutorials that are more than just about one subject. “bioinformatics is the science of …
June 26, 2020More Covid-19 Coloring Books
My little Covid-19 coloring book last month was very well received and was even reported in the CALS eNewsletter on April 17. Other people had similarly been inspired so here is a list of “More Covid-19 …
May 13, 2020- More Announcements posts