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 …
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w3schools code tutorials
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 …
Learn X in Y minutes
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 …
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 …
Finding alternate software
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, …
How to spot a misleading graph?
As biochemists and biologists, like all scientists we convey results in the form of graphs. We also read papers that present results. More generally graphs are used in many aspects of every day news… The …