Archive for November, 2016

My notes from #BioData16 with a collection of links related to education in biomedical data science

Monday, November 7th, 2016

# The meeting
https://meetings.cshl.edu/meetings.aspx?meet=DATA&year=16

# The panel

My lecture
http://lectures.gersteinlab.org/summary/Education-in-Bio-DataScience–20161028-i0bds16/

List of Curricular Topics for Bioinformatics http://goo.gl/303KXr An invitation for crowd-sourced comments to the talk

Panel Slides
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1mhcXpr_BhxvCx4Ki4jR4hLRNzm524JMW76H8zL31Yt4/edit?usp=sharing

Cached copy of above gdocs
http://archive.gersteinlab.org/public-docs/2016/11.01/cached-copy-of-biodata16-i0bds16-gdocs/

Earlier versions of the crowd-source edit:
http://cbb752b16.gersteinlab.org/assignments/homework0
Also:
http://blog.gerstein.info/2015/11/list-of-study-topics-prerequisites-for.html

# Related educational resources (unfortunately, Yale-centric):

The Yale CBB program & its focus on Data Science
http://cbb.yale.edu
http://cbb.yale.edu/graduate-program/optional-focus-biomedical-data-science

CBB752 – Biomedical Data Science: Mining & Modeling
http://www.gersteinlab.org/courses/452/

My ’14 list of US Bioinformatics Programs:
http://blog.gerstein.info/2015/05/updated-again-listing-of-us-programs-in.html https://twitter.com/markgerstein/status/600763647095341056

Hackathon slides:
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/123NLmlYAUrJf2M709kPyDJl3N5wIcOO8W-EGJVxZKN4/edit?usp=sharing

Article on online curriculum:
http://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article?id=10.1371/journal.pcbi.1003662

Masters of Data Science
http://www.slideshare.net/ttimbers/ubc-mds-education-slides

Favorite Tweets
https://storify.com/markgerstein/favorite-tweets-from-biological-data-science-16-bi

Tagged from meeting
https://linkstream2.gerstein.info/tag/i0bds16/

Is 538’s forecast being driven by trendline assumptions? – Medium

Monday, November 7th, 2016

https://medium.com/@georgeberry_8550/overview-4fa5fa157fd1#.vez8p4thn

The Money Management Gospel of Yale’s Endowment Guru – NYTimes.com

Sunday, November 6th, 2016

http://mobile.nytimes.com/images/100000004748040/2016/11/06/business/the-money-management-gospel-of-yales-endowment-guru.html

Protecting Your Digital Privacy – Consumer Reports

Saturday, November 5th, 2016

Protecting Your Digital #Privacy
http://www.consumerreports.org/privacy/protecting-your-digital-privacy-is-not-as-hard-as-you-might-think 66 hints, from evaluating password entropy to determining
https://HaveIBeenPWNed.com

http://www.consumerreports.org/privacy/66-ways-to-protect-your-privacy-right-now/

things l liked from the site:

QT:{{”
Your Long-approved list of paperwork to shred includes any documents containing the following:

• Social Security number (even just the last four digits)
• Birth date
• Credit card numbers
• Account numbers from financial institutions
• Medical insurance numbers
“}}

http://dmachoice.org

https://haveibeenpwned.com/

Password-entropy (bigger is better) = log2 ([alphabet-size]^[password-length])

Faking your address for some sites:
QT:{{”
For an address, may we suggest Bart Simpson’s—742 Evergreen Terrace? “}}

Greenland Is Melting – The New Yorker

Saturday, November 5th, 2016

When a country melts
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/10/24/greenland-is-melting Calving of Greenland’s icesheets portends >3′ rise in sea level. Has this been set into motion?

Delhi Closes Over 1,800 Schools in Response to Dangerous Smog – The New York Times

Friday, November 4th, 2016

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/05/world/asia/delhi-closes-over-1800-schools-in-response-to-dangerous-smog.html?smid=tw-nytimes&smtyp=cur&_r=0

I’m Not an Asshole. I’m an Introvert – The New Yorker

Friday, November 4th, 2016

http://www.newyorker.com/humor/daily-shouts/im-not-an-asshole-im-an-introvert?mbid=social_twitter

Have I been pwned? Check if your email has been compromised in a data breach

Thursday, November 3rd, 2016

https://haveibeenpwned.com/

“Tag_Definition” for Locations

Thursday, November 3rd, 2016

mail search :
https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#search/x9818rest860
=
https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#search/00res
+
https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#search/00resanti

then subset to:

contacts search
https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#contacts/search/00res

after annotation, for display :

https://linkstream2.gerstein.info/tag/00res/
https://linkstream2.gerstein.info/tag/00resanti/

subsets have:

https://linkstream2.gerstein.info/tag/yale/
https://linkstream2.gerstein.info/tag/newhaven/

older ones:
https://delicious.com/mbgmbg/00res

August NYC

Thursday, November 3rd, 2016

a bit loud & cramped at ~730 but then quiets
opens 1130, lex & 61
http://augustny.com