PowerShell One day I discovered that there was a Windows App called “PowerShell” while searching on my Windows 10 installation. I did not pay much attention to it even if I stumbled upon it a …
Programming
csvkit command-line spreadsheet can convert and compute multiple Excel files
Summary csvkit is a suite of command-line tools for converting to and working with CSV, the king of tabular file formats. (csvkitis written in python.) csvkit Documentation: csvkit.rtfd.org csvkit Repository: github.com/wireservice/csvkit A good docker container …
Data 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).)
Tabular 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.
A great Unix tutorial suitable for beginners
…provides a wonderfully well done, easy to understand set of small tutorials, with exercises, each with an accompanying video that should make it easier for beginners that want to learn Unix command line / bash…. To make is faster to navigate the lessons and videos I have combined both into a simple table…
How To Think Like a Computer Scientist and other FREE “Think books”
I regularly roam the Internet in search of solutions to simple questions and often find the answers in sites such as stackoverflow.com, biostars.org or similar forums. Once in a while I find interesting, free materials, …
R courses and tutorials. Classic, Tidyverse, Data Wrangling, ggplot2
This is a list of R material that I found online that I think can be useful as reference or as working material to learn R / RStudio / Mardkown. I’ll try to separate the …
TableConvert.com – free tabular data formats converter
Tabular formats When I first came to Madison in 1986 as a postdoc with Biochemistry professor Paul Kaesberg to learn cloning and sequencing, I was surprised when he said that the most important program to …
R/Python/Reproducible Research Workshops on Campus – Winter 2020
Winter 2020 Programming Workshops on Campus In the past years I have offered python 3, R, and RStudio workshops within the Biochem Department (see links below.) R is both a language and a software environment for …
Dockerization – details needed
Reproducible research Docker is a great tool to provide methods for reproducible research that should allow other researchers to reproduce any advanced calculations that you, as a researcher have done, most likely in association with …