December 2014

Counting things is hard for a given value of “things”

December 1, 2014 | nsaunders

This post is just a summary of some interesting online discussion from last week around open access publishing. I learned a few things about definitions and PubMed/PMC filters. It all begins with an opinion piece, “Open access is tiring out peer reviewers.” With a title like that you might ...
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Creating new data with max values for each subject

December 1, 2014 | Abhijit

We have a data set dat with multiple observations per subject. We want to create a subset of this data such that each subject (with ID giving the unique identifier for the subject) contributes the observation where the variable X takes it’s maximum value for that subject. An R ... [Read more...]

Using Slidify to teach with interactive content

December 1, 2014 | Kyle Walker

I frequently come across criticisms of PowerPoint as a presentation tool, which is interesting to me given the ubiquity of its use across industries. When I worked as a data analyst prior to coming to TCU, I frequently prepared PowerPoints using a company template for my boss’s presentations or ... [Read more...]

ASA Statistical Graphics Student Paper Competition

December 1, 2014 | David Smith

If you're a current graduate or undergraduate student and have a knack for data visualization, why not submit a paper to the 2014 ASA Statistical Graphics Student Paper Competition? Many of the past winners used R to create interesting displays of data, or created a new package for R (general statistical ... [Read more...]

Bio7 2.0 for Windows Released!

December 1, 2014 | » R

01.12.2014 A new Windows version of Bio7 is available. Many new features have been added to Bio7 2.0 which is now based on Eclipse 4.4. Highlights are the improved R editor, the R debugging Graphical User Interface (using the standard R debugger), the integrated Java Development Tools (JDT) to create Java simulation models ... [Read more...]

Ants, snakes, and the hydrophobic-polar model

December 1, 2014 | biochemistries

The other night I was reading Lesk’s Introduction to Protein Science, when I came across this diagram: A lattice model represents the structure of a protein as a connected set of points distributed at discrete and regular positions in space, with simplified interaction rules for calculating the energies of ...
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