University of Wisconsin–Madison

Tag: python

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 organized,  self-paced tutorials on a much larger scale. Coding languages Here are a few that I find particularly useful to …

R & Python workshops – Winter 2022

Summary (Free) Steenbock Library: R and python series (Free) SSCC (Social Science Computing Cooperative): SSCC Training Classes (low cost for UW) Software Carpentry: Software Carpentry @ UW-Madison Low cost registration ends January 5, 2022 See also the general Calendar listing . Library workshops Note: these workshops fill-in fast… Individual workshop descriptions and instructors list. Registration required.  …

Do yourself a favor: learn Markdown – Episode 4. Reproducible reports

The message The essential message is this: stop using Copy/Paste from one program to another (e.g. a chart from Excel to Word) as this is a manual process that is not reproducible and can easily get out of sync if new data need to be incorporated and the report reconstructed anew. The solution is to …

Download Google Drive Files using wget

The problem: transfer file between clouds Files on Google drive can be shared between users, but the default access to the file is via a web browser graphical interface. However, sometimes it may be useful, or even necessary, to access and download a file from a command line, for example downloading the file with the wget utility. …

Data Analysis Workshops Winter 2021

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,” “R: introduction / visualization / reports” (Software Carpentry through UW-Madison Data Science (fees apply).)

Data Analysis Workshops Fall 2020

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).)

Docker PyMOL

PyMOL is a great program that runs  natively on all 3 major platforms. However, I wanted to use a docker image that allegedly can run PyMOL (albeit an older version 1.8.2.) The reason might not be apparent at first but while the 3D interactivity would be slow, there can be other reason such a contraption …

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 links between “Classic” and “Tidyverse” versions, but that is not always possible… “Tidyverse” would include plotting with ggplot2 R package which …

Bioinformatics – which computer language should I learn first?

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 …