Good morning!
Welcome to the second ever issue of Monday Morning Data Science from the Fred Hutch Data Science Laboratory. We are excited to show you what we have been working on (Fresh from the Lab), plus links that we think you would be interested in (Our Weekly Bookmarks Bar). Part of the purpose of this newsletter is to start conversations, so if you have a question or there is something you would like to share with us please let us know by responding directly to this email.
Fresh from the Lab
[New Course: Fred Hutch Cluster 101] Learn how to get set up and off to the races with Fred Hutch’s cluster computing infrastructure in our new online course, built in collaboration with Scientific Computing, linked above. We are also putting together an in-person pilot of this course: contact Amy Paguirigan (apaguiri@fredhutch.org) if you are interested in joining the pilot.
[Event: Seattle R User Group Meetup] The Seattle R User Group is resuming in-person meetups, starting off with the Data Science Lab’s very own Sean Kross giving a workshop introducing R Markdown on Thursday November 10th at 6pm. Click on the link above to RSVP!
[Event: Effective Computing User Group] Join the Data Science Lab, Scientific Computing, and Hutch Data Core folks on Monday at 12pm in the Arnold building in M1-B406 or on Teams to discuss using the cloud, high performance computing, data analysis, software development, and much more! Add this event to your calendar by clicking the link above.
[Event: Fred Hutch R User Group] On Tuesday at 1pm in Arnold M2-B102 Sean will be workshopping his R Markdown workshop for the meetup on Thursday. He would really appreciate your feedback, and you can find the Teams link in the event linked above.
[Event: Data House Calls (Wednesday in Steam Plant)] The Data Science Lab team is headed to the Steam Plant 2nd floor conference room for our weekly consultation hour. Please drop by and talk to us about support for data challenges, coding challenges, computing questions, data management, and more. You can join on Teams too, again the Teams link is in the event linked above.
Our Weekly Bookmarks Bar
[Manuscript: Complex Systems] In the Data Science Lab we are in the business of building complex systems, so naturally we have been thinking about how complex systems can fail, a topic which is well outlined in this classic paper from Richard Cook.
[Blog Post: Build Something] Shannon Pileggi wrote a fantastic blog post in conversation with Jenny Bryan about learning and building incrementally.
[Substack: Force of Infection] Famed infectious disease epidemiologist Caitlin Rivers has started writing a fantastic Substack of her own. Her latest issue (linked above) is about this year’s flu trends in the US.
[Cool Toy: The Infinite Conversation] Werner Herzog is one of our favorite filmmakers and this web application generates a fictional AI-powered audio conversation between him and philosopher Slavoj Žižek.
As always you can contact us by replying directly to this email, you can email Jeff Leek, Amy Paguirigan, and Sean Kross at data@fredhutch.org, or you are welcome to join us on the Fred Hutch Data Slack Workspace. For more information about the Fred Hutch Data Science Lab, visit our website: https://hutchdatascience.org/. See you next week!
- The Fred Hutch Data Science Laboratory