University of Wisconsin–Madison

Category: Scientific Communication

Is p-value hacking reverse statistics?

Summary P-value hacking is the process of manipulating or analyzing data in a way that increases the likelihood of obtaining statistically significant results. I used 4 different AI chatbots to obtain an explanation with examples. Statistics This story came about when I watched a short video titled “Teach me STATISTICS in half an hour! Seriously.” …

Do yourself a favor: learn Markdown – Episode 7: BibTeX for online articles

Summary A tool to create a BibTeX entry for online articles or blogs. Generate BibTeX from URL This is a follow-up on 6 “Episode”” in previous posts titled “Do yourself a favor: learn Markdown…” In a previous article (Sgro (2022)) I presented how to add bibliographical information within an Rmarkdown document (Allaire et al. (2023)) …

Data exploration in R with Tidyverse dplyr – part 2 – 10 examples

Summary Part 1 (Sgro (2023)) : was a general overview of the dplyr package for data exploration and manipulation to summarize or extract information from tabular data. Part 2: (This post) provides worked examples while learning Rmarkdown. The 10 `dplyr` examples cover the topics in the list below. An 11th example was added to show …

Data exploration in R with Tidyverse dplyr – part 1 – overview

Summary Part 1: A general overview of the dplyr package for data exploration and manipulation to summarize or extract information. Part 2: Next post will provide worked examples.     1 Motivation The Biochemistry R Club is following the new, 2^nd edition of R for Data Science (Wickham, Çetinkaya-Rundel, and Grolemund (2023).) The Club sessions are recorded in a local …

Foundational concepts to understand AI: free online curricula

Summary Alignment Course is an online curriculum that provides materials in a useful order to learn fundamentals. The Governance Course offers similar material at the beginning, but then moves towards governance (regulations etc.). Within the first “SESSION” both offer a video insight titled: How ChatGPT Works Technically. Wisconsin AI Safety Initiative Founded in Spring 2023, the …

Faster image creation in PyMOL: Shortcuts and Docker

Summary PyMOL command scripts are available natively and within Docker images. PyMOL Scripts PyMOL offers a very easy-to-use graphical user interface (GUI) to manipulate loaded molecule, and alter the appearance and coloring options. However, while this is easy, it is not the “best way” to use PyMOL if one wants to be able to reproduce …

No GUI PyMOL for high throughput images and optional Docker

Summary Computing a PNG image for each of 1,000 PDB files as a cartoon, color-coded by B factor. PyMOL without GUI PyMOL is routinely used by Biologists to illustrate molecules, using the graphical user interface (GUI.) However, there are situations where it may be beneficial to run PyMOL without using the mouse. I recently computed …

Five ways to run AlphaFold

What is AlphaFold How to access AlphaFold There are multiple options to access AlphaFold. Here are four options using the limited databases. One options for the full databases. Using limited Databases: 1.) Casual users can use “Google Colab” with a web browser. Familiarity with Jupyter Notebook for running Python is helpful. The service is free …

Centralizing R & Python Data Projects: Posit Cloud Essentials Event

Cloud event Users of RStudio may be interested in this monthly event presented by “Posit” which is the new name of the company that produces RStudio, as the software can be used with many more languages beyond R, including Python. This event will occur monthly online on the last Tuesday of every month. Next occurrence …

R and Python workshops on Campus – Fall 2023

Summary Workshop Series available on Campus on R and Python: R and Python at Biochem R and Python “Clubs” were established in late 2022. The Python Club is currently closed but may be restarted in a new format. Minutes and scripts from the sessions are available online: beginners, intermediate_advanced, communication. The R-Club is continuously meeting …