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).)
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, such as the FREE “Think” book series by Allen B. Downey on Green Tea Press. The premise of this series …
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 links between “Classic” and “Tidyverse” versions, but that is not always possible… “Tidyverse” would include plotting with ggplot2 R package which …
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 statistical computing and graphics. R (and other languages) can be used through the amazing RStudio interface for even more performance, ease …
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 publishing a paper. However, there are many caveats along the way, the first one being explanations on how to launch …
In the past years I have focused on what seemed to be the most useful bioinformatics tools for biologists that need to analyze data with software that does not have a graphical interface. The final result is that I created tutorials for bash, R and python. It seems that others agree, and I think this youtube …
Programming for Biology 2019 The famous Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory offers many courses, the course Programming for Biology 2019 was held in October 2019 and this specific course generously offers the course materials online on this site: programmingforbiology.org The course materials covers basics and advanced methods using Unix & Python and provides tutorial materials that include …