UCSC BME 200 Fall 2015 week 4

(Last Update: 13:51 PDT 16 September 2015 )

Guest lecture by tech staff on computer and cluster use by bioinformatics grad students.

Where things are kept, how to get access to cluster computing. How to report problems (email: cluster-admin, http://itrequest.ucsc.edu) Instructions for setting up SoE web pages, turning on directory indexing, and similar stuff is on http://support.soe.ucsc.edu/web/personal

General discussion on graphical presentation of data.

Tools: R, matplotlib, gnuplot.

Up is good

Avoid red/green distinction.

Tufte's books

Use of log scale: Try to make all curves be straight lines

Kernel density plots vs. histograms

Lab rotation talks. What they are, when we'll have them, how to prepare.

First set are Thurs 2015 Nov 12.

Review of LaTeX assignment.



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