Biologist, stop putting UMAP plots in papers! Blogpost here: simplystatistics.org/posts/2024-1...

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New method for identifying spatially variable genes in spatial transcriptomics. We use spectral graph theory to extract 1D curves related to tissue morphology, creating a more relevant coordinate system. Improves sensitivity. with @PhillipNicol et al. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Question for #rstats educators: Do you use a standard format for exercises? I have 100s of exercises along with solutions in quarto documents (see image). But they are not formatted in a systematic way. I would like to easily create docs with and w/o solutions and export to LMS.

Hoy inicia nuestro Curso en español de Ciencia de Datos: Fundamentos de R en HarvardX! Aprenderás desde los básicos hasta data wrangling, conceptos de programación e importación de datos. La versión gratis y en línea te da acceso a los videos, textos y ejercicios. t.co/TGID4IwTSQ

Data visualization is used in two ways in data analysis: 1) Communicating data insights. 2) Guiding analysis and spotting data issues. While modern courses and books focus on the first, it's the second - exploratory data analysis - that is more important and harder to teach.

Introducing the Data Science Postdoctoral Fellows Program at Harvard/DFCI! - Join a research group in our department - Co-mentoring opportunities with 2+ faculty - Collaborate with DFCI investigators beyond our department - Salary starts at $75K Apply here: ds.dfci.harvard.edu/postdocs/