Matt.0My newyeaRs resolution: slimming down (Seurat)I’m currently developing a single-cell RNA Sequencing pipeline for NetworkAnalyst; an open source, web-based platform for comprehensive…4 min read·Jan 16, 2020----
Matt.0inTowards Data ScienceIdentifying regional differences in Perinatal Mental Health indicators in the UK with RThe fingertipsR package provides an easy interface to access the fingertips API. This repository contains a large variety of public health…9 min read·Apr 26, 2019----
Matt.0inTowards Data ScienceHow to Choose the Best Open Source SoftwareAfter reading the O’Reilly book “Foundations for Architecting Data Solutions”, by Ted Malaska and Jonathan Seidman, I reflected on how I…9 min read·Mar 22, 2019--1--1
Matt.0inTowards Data ScienceWeb Scraping Google Sheets with RSeleniumI love to learn new things and one of ways I learn best is by doing. Also it’s been said that you never fully understand a topic until you…11 min read·Jan 29, 2019--1--1
Matt.0inTowards Data Science10 Tips for Choosing the Optimal Number of ClustersClustering is one of the most common unsupervised machine learning problems. Similarity between observations is defined using some…15 min read·Jan 27, 2019--14--14
Matt.0inTowards Data ScienceThe Gamification Of Fitbit: How an API Provided the Next Level of tRaining“Anyone can look for fashion in a boutique or history in a museum. The creative explorer looks for history in a hardware store and fashion…21 min read·Nov 10, 2018----
Matt.0inTowards Data ScienceHow to Highlight 3D Brain RegionsRecently, I was reading Howard et. al., (2018) “Genome-wide meta-analysis of depression in 807,553 individuals identifies 102 independent…6 min read·Oct 31, 2018--2--2
Matt.0inTowards Data ScienceThe “Gold Standard” of Data Science Project ManagementThe inspiration for this post came most recently from a slide-deck by Ming Tang, a Bioinformatician at Harvard, and a new Chromebook Data…7 min read·Oct 6, 2018----
Matt.0inTowards Data ScienceRecreating (more) data visualizations from the book “Knowledge is Beautiful”: Part IVWelcome to the last part of the series where I recreate data visualizations in R from the book Knowledge is Beautiful by David McCandless.5 min read·Jul 16, 2018--2--2
Matt.0inTowards Data ScienceRecreating (more) data visualizations from the book “Knowledge is Beautiful”: Part IIIWelcome to the third installment of the series where I recreate data visualizations, in R, from the book Knowledge is Beautiful by David…5 min read·Jul 5, 2018----