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Data Correlation and the Simpson Paradox

Posted on March 25, 2025

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 …

Posted in bioinformatics, Computing, Scientific Communication, StatisticsTagged penguis, R, Simpson’s Paradox, statistics

R and Python workshops on Campus – Winter 2024

Posted on January 9, 2024

  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 …

Posted in Announcements, bioinformatics, Computing, Python, R, RStudio, Scientific Communication, StatisticsTagged data analysis, python, R, reports, RStudio

Is p-value hacking reverse statistics?

Posted on December 31, 2023

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. …

Posted in bioinformatics, Computing, Scientific Communication, StatisticsTagged AI, ChatGPT, p-value, statistics

R and Python workshops on Campus – Fall 2023

Posted on August 23, 2023

Summary Workshop Series available on Campus on R and Python: Biochem SSCC UW Libraries R and Python at Biochem R and Python “Clubs” were established in late 2022. The Python Club is currently closed but …

Posted in Announcements, bioinformatics, Computing, Programming, Python, R, RStudio, Scientific Communication, StatisticsTagged data analysis, data wrangling, python, R, workshop

𝗙𝗿𝗲𝗲 𝗗𝗮𝘁𝗮 𝗦𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗕𝗼𝗼𝗸𝘀

Posted on August 23, 2022

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 …

Posted in bioinformatics, Books, Python, R, StatisticsTagged data science, machine learning, programming, python, R, statistics

w3schools code tutorials

Posted on June 23, 2022

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 …

Posted in bioinformatics, Programming, Python, R, SQL, Statistics, UncategorizedTagged data science, Git, learning, machine learning, mySQL, python, R, SQL, statistics, Tutorials, w3schools

Learn X in Y minutes

Posted on June 21, 2022

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 …

Posted in bash, bioinformatics, Computing, Markdown, Programming, Python, R, SQL, StatisticsTagged computer langages, quick learning

How To Think Like a Computer Scientist and other FREE “Think books”

Posted on March 26, 2020

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, …

Posted in Books, Programming, Python, Statistics

R courses and tutorials. Classic, Tidyverse, Data Wrangling, ggplot2

Posted on February 27, 2020

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 …

Posted in Announcements, bioinformatics, Programming, Python, R, StatisticsTagged Courses, data wrangling, Genomics, ggplot2, graphics, markdown, mining, pandas, python, R, Rmarkdown, Tidyverse, training, workshops

Finding alternate software

Posted on December 10, 2019

A couple years ago I wrote a short note on another blog (DNA.today – link below) about a web site that can be quite useful: it provides the name of alternate software. The site is: alternativeto.net For example, …

Posted in bash, bioinformatics, Molecular Graphics, Programming, Statistics
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