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Hi, I'm Vanessa, a Principal Computer Scientist.
Building schedulers, containers, and cloudy things, with a love for learning and new experiences. -- about me

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Adding Trend Lines to Barplots in R: watch that x range! Data visualization is extremely important. I never believe any kind of “significant result” until I’ve visualized it to see that there is some convincing difference or pattern. However, today I ran into some trouble when trying to visualize some of... Read more

My Screen-ounette! You got away from me, my screen-ounette! A careful melody of consistent characters A little puddle of pretty print A trailing list of timid text And then frozen. I didn’t know what to do, my screen-ounette! Like a frozen flash... Read more

NeuroSynth to Cognitive Atlas Mapping NeuroSynth is a database that maps functional activation coordinates to behavioral terms, based on the frequency of the term in the paper.  The Cognitive Atlas is an ontology of cognitive terms, specifically for neuroscience.  I wanted to filter my NeuroSynth... Read more

What is the purpose of the BMI student? I’m finishing up the primary research for my PhD, and as I start to go through my list of “fun projects” to try, I am terribly aware of the big picture.  Part of growing up (as a researcher) is not... Read more