— An interpretation of what constitutes a teacher — What is a good interpretation of what constitutes a teacher? That was the question of interest a few days ago in an email conversation between a friend and I. He was looking for an abstract answer, and I realized quickly... Read more
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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— Generate RSS 2.0 Feed for Files in Directory — This was hard to find, so I want to share a little script for automatically generating an RSS 2.0 feed for files (with a particular extension) in a server directory. For example, you may have a set of photos, videos,... Read more
— Introduction to Gephi — This is a guest post by my diabolically awesome lab-mate Maude, who is very experienced using the software Gephi to make beautiful network visualizations. ## How to use Gephi ? Here I try to describe the procedure I used in... Read more
— Analysis of Affymetrix .CEL Files — I’ve been working with microarray expression data from the Broad Connectivity Map, and of course decided to download raw data (to work with in R) over using their GUI. The raw data is in the form of “.CEL” files, which... Read more