Summary Workshop Series available on Campus on R and Python. (For more details see further below.) – UW Libraries – Steenbock Library Workshops – UW Data Science Hub / Software Carpentry – Social Science Computing Cooperative (SSCC) Steenbock Library Workshops See details on announcement page: Learn how to use Python and/or R programming languages for …
Summary Simpson’s paradox is a fascinating statistical phenomenon where the observed relationship between two variables can be reversed when the data is divided into subgroups. For biologists and biochemists, this means that the correlation between two biological variables might change direction when considering an additional categorical variable, such as a specific species or experimental condition. …
Summary Workshop Series available on Campus on R and Python: – Biochem – Social Science Computing Cooperative (SSCC) – UW Libraries – SSteenbock Library Workshops – Computational Biology, Ecology, & Evolution (ComBEE) Study Groups R and Python at Biochem R and Python “Clubs” were established in late 2022. The Python Club is currently closed …
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.” …
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 …
Becoming a Data Scientist If you are interested to become a data scientist, the following free resources and books would be very helpful. Free books using R These and other books aan be accessed for free on bookdown.org (Note: bookdown is the software used to edit them.) Free books on using Python Free books on …
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 …
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 …