On Friday November 9th I’ll be giving a talk to the first year students from the Undergraduate Program on Genomic Sciences (LCG in Spanish) during their “Seminar 1: Introduction to...continue reading.

Amanda and I are organizing a cultural student mixer for students in our department. One of the things we needed to do was invite everyone to attend. I like using...continue reading.

The below code shows how to configure the help.ports option in R such that the built-in R help server always uses the same URL port. Just add it to the...continue reading.

The other day I learnt about the existance of the colors() vector in R which specifies all the character-based colors like “light blue”, “black”, etc. So I made a simple...continue reading.

Bitbucket announced their new “look” today. The goal is to make it more team friendly but I guess that they also wanted to make it look fresh. For example, the...continue reading.

During the last pre-happy hour seminar, Karl Broman talked about Why aren’t all of our graphs interactive? I didn’t know, but a few years ago Karl worked in the department and clearly promoted...continue reading.

Last week I talked about online courses in my JHSPH-Biostat through Coursera post. Now I’m back to comment on An Online Bioinformatics Curriculum by David B. Searls. Sur Herrera pointed out this paper...continue reading.

02/27/12 PHD comic: ‘Inspired by true events’ Totally what happened to me on Monday night! (whenever I saved this post as a draft :P, but it’s happening again now)continue reading.

Do you use Gmail as your primary email account? Primary, what? Well, I’m sure that you have your personal account somewhere and your work or university account too. You can...continue reading.

Have you heard of online education? If you are in the US or Mexico I’m sure that you have seen some ads about online universities. Well, that’s not the type...continue reading.

During this week’s journal club meeting Hilary Parker (homepage, blog) led the session on “Identifying influential and susceptible members of social networks”. Were there some speakers or why did she “lead...continue reading.

Just like most scientific departments, we have a seminar (weekly over here) where very bright people come to us to talk about their work. Being a Biostatistics department, we mostly...continue reading.

The below code shows how to configure the repos option in R such that install.packages() etc. will locate the packages without having to explicitly specify the repository. Just add it...continue reading.

Last week I gave a presentation during our computing club on how to use git (a version control system). I used as a motivating example the first steps of creating...continue reading.

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I consider myself a fan of using version control for bioinformatics/biostatistics (or any text based, like code) project. Yet my knowledge of version control systems is quite limited. I’ve used...continue reading.