Good morning!
Welcome to the eleventh 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
[Event: Data House Calls] Wednesday 1/11 at 10am we’ll have our weekly Data House Calls drop in hour in Arnold. We’ll plan to meet at my office in M1-B867, but last time my office was insufficient for the attendance so we may move to the conference room around the corner in M1-B612. Come by to meet up with me and Sean and talk about anything data related or come by on Teams at this link!
[Training: Cluster 101 Evaluation] Another round of training evaluation of our Cluster 101 course that is a collaboration between Scientific Computing and the DaSL Training Crew is ongoing. If you’d like to join (even if you know how to use our cluster already), you can do so any time before 1/13 and learn/provide your feedback join us over in #ask-dasl The window for this round of feedback with active support from DaSL/SciComp is 2 weeks (then we’ll be busy integrating your input into the class!) Your feedback will help many future newbies get introduced to and started working on our cluster! There are two links for this class (same content though!). You can take it as a Bookdown course: https://hutchdatascience.org/FH_Cluster_Guide/ or, if you’d like to get the certification, as a (free) Leanpub course: https://leanpub.com/courses/fredhutch/fredhutchcluster101.Â
Our Weekly Bookmarks Bar
[Blog Post: Work Life in Academia vs. At a Startup] Columbia University professor and startup founder Ryan Abernathey talks about working at his growing startup compared to his previous experiences working in academia.
[Magazine Article: The Stats Gap] Zoologist Ellen Pasternack writes about shortcomings in college-level statistics education.
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