tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-81357341459260222092024-03-13T22:50:48.648-07:00Statistical [R]ecipesA mix of statistics, bioinformatics, genomics, and cooking adventuresStephanie Hickshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14984127187252119937noreply@blogger.comBlogger114125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8135734145926022209.post-28321662353879524402018-10-31T03:33:00.003-07:002018-10-31T03:33:59.482-07:00Happy Halloween 2018<span style="font-family: inherit;">My latest baking adventures for a Halloween party today:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">raw_ingredients %>% </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"> mix() %>% scoop() %>% </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"> bake(oventemp=350F, time=20mins) %>%</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"> cool(time=30mins) %>%</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"> geom_cupcake() + geom_frosting() +</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"> geom_oreos() + geom_milk_duds() +</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"> geom_reeses_pieces()</span><br />
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<br />Stephanie Hickshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14984127187252119937noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8135734145926022209.post-63665647717953165942018-10-12T06:08:00.000-07:002018-10-12T11:45:33.526-07:00Statistics, we still have a problem and we need your help<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">O<span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ne year ago, the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Me_Too_movement" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">#MeToo movement</span></a><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> to increase awareness about sexual harassment and sexual assault began. The field of Statistics was no exception. Eleven months ago, the </span><a href="http://www.amstat.org/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">American Statistical Association</span></a><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> board of directors </span><a href="https://www.amstat.org/ASA/News/ASA-Convenes-Task-Force-on-Sexual-Harassment-and-Assault.aspx" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">approved the formation</span></a><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> of a </span><a href="http://ww2.amstat.org/committees/commdetails.cfm?txtComm=ABTBOD05" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Task Force on Sexual Harassment and Assault</span></a><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. Ten months ago, Kristian Lum </span><a href="https://medium.com/@kristianlum/statistics-we-have-a-problem-304638dc5de5" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">published a blog post</span></a><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> titled </span><span style="font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Statistics, we have a problem</span><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> where she called for our community to stop tolerating a culture of harassment with the hope that her story will help other women come forward who have been affected by sexual harassment or assault (and </span><a href="https://statgirlblog.wordpress.com/2017/04/07/sexual-assault-and-harassment-in-stem-we-can-no-longer-afford-to-be-silent/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">she’s not the only one</span></a><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">). The day after I read Kristian’s blog post, I decided to organize a panel session at the largest statistics meeting (annual) in North America (</span><a href="http://ww2.amstat.org/meetings/jsm/2018/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Joint Statistical Meetings</span></a><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">) on </span><a href="http://ww2.amstat.org/meetings/jsm/2018/onlineprogram/AbstractDetails.cfm?abstractid=329833" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Addressing Sexual Misconduct in Statistics</span></a><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, which took place in Vancouver, Canada in August 2018.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A common theme that was echoed by both the panelists and audience was that it would be great if we could identify effective strategies to promote an inclusive, equitable culture, free of gender bias and sexual harassment. While we, as a community up until now, have primarily focused on the <i>negative</i>, downstream effects of what happens in a culture that does not value women, I would argue that what we should be focused on is how to identify, discuss, and encourage strategies that promote a <i>positive</i> culture. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Last week, the New England Journal of Medicine <a href="https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMms1805743#.W7VSoXtKFRQ.twitter">published an article</a> titled <i>Men’s Fear of Mentoring in the #MeToo Era — What’s at Stake for Academic Medicine?</i> The article stated: </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">“In response [to the #MeToo movement], some men in positions of power now say <b>they are afraid to participate in mentoring relationships with women</b>. In a study focused on engaging men in gender-equity initiatives, 74% of male senior business managers cited fear as a barrier to men’s support for gender equity. A 2018 survey of nearly 3000 employed U.S. adults found that some men have stopped meeting alone with women, and others will not meet with women they do not know well or who are considered to be their subordinates. <b>Men say they fear false allegations of sexual misconduct that could compromise their reputations and end their careers, even if they were found to be innocent.</b>”</span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This has serious repercussions and consequences for women who are looking to advance their careers:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">“<b>Being denied mentorship relationships deprives young women of career-enhancing experiences during critical periods of their professional development</b>… In medicine, where female leaders are few — women represent nearly half of medical school graduates yet only 16% of deans — <b>denying women access to mentoring relationships will perpetuate this gender gap</b>.”</span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The field of academic statistics is similar. I have heard first-hand from many of my male peers that they too worry about false allegations of sexual misconduct, to the point that they have now altered the way they interact with their female students (e.g. no longer taking meetings outside of the office, such as meeting for coffee), but continue to provide these opportunities to their male students. My concern is not with the idea of meeting outside the office (that is a healthy discussion to have and by no means a straightforward discussion, for example, it can vary across cultural and religious norms), but rather the concern is with the discrepancy in mentorship between female and male students. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This is extremely distressing to me because I wholly understand the loss of mentorship to women in the statistics community that will now happen if we don’t start discussing effective strategies to promote a positive culture and training on how implement those strategies. As a student and trainee, I was fortunate enough to have wonderful mentors (both male and female). I saw first hand that many, insightful conversations about career development often happens outside of the office (e.g. meeting a coffee shop or a conference). Had my mentors thought similarly to the 74% male managers above, I’m not sure I would have made it through the 14 years of post-high school education and training to get where I am today. We need young, female students and trainees to have access to good mentors (male or female) and male mentors to feel like they can successfully mentor women without feeling threatened of false accusations. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">While my male peers are sympathetic and would like to encourage further progress, I frequently hear it can be difficult to figure out where to start. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>What can you do to help? </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><u>My call to action is that we need to identify effective strategies for promoting an inclusive and equitable culture for women and provide education and training to both men and women on how to successfully implement those strategies</u>. This includes senior leadership in our community dedicating protected time for these discussions and training in our own work environments and at professional events.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This August, I submitted an invited panel session proposal to JSM for 2019 to “highlight innovative efforts by statisticians who have actively sought to positively change culture in their work environment and through local, national, and international platforms in the fields of statistics and data science. The panelists’ major objective is to discuss specific strategies on how to make a positive culture in our community. The ultimate goal for this session is that audience members will be able to implement strategies described by the panelists in their own work environment to change the culture in a tangible way.” The panelists stemmed from academia, government, non-profit and industry:</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Wendy Martinez -- <a href="https://www.amstat.org/asa/News/Bureau-of-Labor-Statistics-Wendy-Martinez-Elected-ASA-President.aspx">ASA President-Elect in 2019</a> and Director of the Mathematical Statistics Research Center at the Bureau of Labor Statistics</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Emma Benn -- Assistant Professor of Biostatistics and Director of Academic Programs at the <a href="https://icahn.mssm.edu/education/masters/public-health/tracks/biostatistics">Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai</a>, and a member of the ASA Task Force on Sexual Harassment and Sexual Assault.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Debashis Ghosh -- Professor and Chair of the <a href="http://www.ucdenver.edu/academics/colleges/PublicHealth/Academics/departments/Biostatistics/Pages/welcome.aspx">Department of Biostatistics and Informatics </a>at the Colorado School of Public Health</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Karthik Ram -- <span id="docs-internal-guid-01353732-7fff-4dfd-1570-6ac2a1ee65b8" style="font-family: -webkit-standard;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Senior Scientist </span></span>at the <a href="https://bids.berkeley.edu/">Berkeley Institute for Data Science</a> at UC Berkeley and co-founder of <a href="https://ropensci.org/">rOpenSci</a>, a non-profit initiative to make scientific data retrieval reproducible</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Jennifer Hecht -- Vice-President People Operations at <a href="https://www.rstudio.com/">RStudio</a> with extensive experience in human resources in industry </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Gabriela de Queiroz -- Sr. Developer Advocate at IBM and Founder of </span><a href="https://rladies.org/" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">R-Ladies</a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">, a non-profit, international organization to increase the gender diversity in the R com</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">munity</span></span></li>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">While the proposal was not selected, I plan to submit it as a topic-contributed session. In the meantime, I decided it was important to start discussing this now (hence this blog post). </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Yes, <b>Statistics, we still have a problem</b>, but <b>we will soon have an even bigger problem</b> if we lose youn</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">g, incredibly talented, female students and trainees because of discrepancies in training or completely insufficient mentorship. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Questions, comments? Feel free to reach out to me by email or <a href="https://twitter.com/stephaniehicks">twitter</a>.</span><br />
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Stephanie Hickshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14984127187252119937noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8135734145926022209.post-60984543069900328062018-08-17T07:15:00.001-07:002018-08-17T07:29:19.656-07:00How to successfully submit a conference session proposalConferences are a wonderful place to learn about exciting research happening in your field, to meet new people and/or potential collaborators and to catch up with old friends. Recently, I attended the annual <a href="http://ww2.amstat.org/meetings/jsm/2018/">Joint Statistical Meetings</a> (JSM) in Vancouver, Canada, which is the largest conference for statisticians in North America. One of the features of this conference is the program committee invites anyone to submit a <a href="http://ww2.amstat.org/meetings/jsm/2019/invitedsessions.cfm">proposal for an Invited Session</a>. In terms of JSM, the due date is almost a year in advance of the conference. For example, Invited Session proposals for JSM 2019 (July 27-Aug 1, 2019) are due September 6, 2018. There are also other types of sessions called <a href="http://ww2.amstat.org/meetings/jsm/2019/topiccontributed.cfm">Topic-contributed Sessions</a> and <a href="http://ww2.amstat.org/meetings/jsm/2019/topiccontributed.cfm">Contributed Sessions</a> with due dates a bit later in the year. The problem is because this conference is so large, it requires a long time to read through the proposals and to organize all the sessions.<br />
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In previous years, I helped organize and participated in an <a href="https://ww2.amstat.org/meetings/jsm/2016/onlineprogram/ActivityDetails.cfm?SessionID=212483">invited session</a> at JSM. This year, I submitted a proposal for a topic-contributed session, but it was elevated to <a href="http://ww2.amstat.org/meetings/jsm/2018/onlineprogram/AbstractDetails.cfm?abstractid=329833">a late-breaking session</a>. Most recently, I organized an Invited Session, which was just accepted, for the 2019 <a href="https://www.enar.org/">Eastern North American Region</a> (ENAR) International Biometric Society conference. Finally, I am on the program committee for the <a href="http://ww2.amstat.org/meetings/sdss/2019/">2019 Symposium on Data Science and Statistics</a> (SDSS).<br />
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Given my recent experiences organizing sessions for conferences and the <a href="http://magazine.amstat.org/blog/2018/07/01/sessionproposalsjsm2019/">JSM 2019 Invited Session proposals</a> are due in a few weeks, I thought I would it would be relevant to write a blog post on strategies I use when putting together a proposal.<br />
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<b>1. Come up with a interesting, timely and relevant topic. </b>You might bounce ideas off of your colleagues to see if the topic would have wide enough interest and might be of interest or be relevant to a particular conference. This is often the most difficult part of organizing a session. If your topic is not really of interest to a wide enough audience, it is highly unlikely that it will be selected. However, you want it to be focused enough that you can reasonably talk about the topic in 1-2 hours.<br />
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<b>2. Create a title and abstract for your session proposal. </b>If you have thought carefully about the topic, this should be an easier step. The title should be succinct and representative of what you want your session to be about. The abstract should contain (1) why this topic is important and relevant, (2) the focus and goal of the session, (3) what the speakers will discuss. Ask a colleague to review the title and abstract to give you feedback.<br />
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<b>3. Decide on speakers and send out invitation emails.</b> First, think carefully about who is in your audience and who you want to invite. Some things to think about when coming up a list of potential speakers: their backgrounds, their expertise, their perspective, their ability to give good presentations and the diversity of the speakers. The last one is most commonly overlooked, but can bring such rich and valuable discussions if you have a diverse set of speakers.<br />
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Here is a suggested format to send the invitation emails:<br />
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<i>My goal with this session is for <add goal of session>. Instead of focusing on <a previously discussed topic>, I want to focus on <a new topic>. My hope for the session is that audience members will be able to <add what you want the audience to get out of the session>. </i></div>
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<i>As the <add the person's title, etc>, I would like to invite you to speak in the session <(or) join as a panel member to share your insight and perspectives (if a panel)>. Your expertise in <all the reasons why this person would be a good speaker> would be highly valuable and a great contribution to the session. </i></div>
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<i>I hope you will join the session if you plan to attend and aren’t otherwise committed. Could you let me know by <fill in the date> if you would be willing to speak? I plan to include 3-4 speakers <(or) panel members> and welcome suggestions for additional speakers. </i></div>
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<i>I am happy to answer any other questions that you may have. </i></div>
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<i>All the best, </i></div>
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Some will say yes, some will say no. If needed, send out more email requests. The main things are to explain (1) the details of the conference and session, (2) the focus and goal of the session, (3) why you are inviting them or why you think they would be a good contribution to the session, (4) and the date you need for them to respond to you by.<br />
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<b>4. Submit a proposal to the conference by the due date. </b>This usually includes at minium a title and an abstract. You also want to include the name of all the speakers who have agreed to participate in your session, their affiliations (departments / institutions / company name, etc), and usually an email address. This helps the conference organizers get a better idea of what will be discussed. This last one is often required, so check out what is needed for your specific conference.<br />
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<b>5. Wait for a response from the conference organizers. </b>This can be a quick or very long process, depending on how large the conference is. Typically the larger the conference, the longer it takes to go through all the proposals. JSM's Invited Session proposals are notoriously long:<br />
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And my favorite response from the amazing <a href="https://twitter.com/shannon_e_ellis?lang=en">Shannon Ellis</a>:
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If your proposal is accepted, CONGRATULATIONS! Send an email to all the speakers to share the good news. They will need to register and may need to submit individual abstracts for each of their respective talks. Remind the speakers of any upcoming deadlines. If not, consider trying again next year!<br />
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Most importantly, if you are a student or postdoc, organizing a conference session can be a fantastic way to meet people in your field! You have the opportunity to craft a session on a topic that excites you the most and chair that session. Conferences need fresh perspectives and new ideas, and I find students and postdocs actively working on a research topic have some of the most insightful suggestions.Stephanie Hickshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14984127187252119937noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8135734145926022209.post-12596948068286919612018-06-21T06:53:00.000-07:002018-06-21T06:53:29.045-07:00Using Slack for Academic Departmental CommunicationThis is a joint blog post joint between <a href="http://lcolladotor.github.io/">Leonardo Collado-Torres</a> and <a href="http://stephaniehicks.com/">Stephanie Hicks</a>. It has been cross-posted on <a href="http://lcolladotor.github.io/2018/06/19/using-slack-for-academic-departmental-communication/#.WyutUi2ZNTZ">Leo's blog</a> too! We want to share with you our experience using Slack and why you should join us. This post is in an interview style.<br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">[SH]</span> Slack is a communication tool for <i>teams</i>. The main idea is you have individual chat rooms (referred to as <i>channels</i> that always begin with the # symbol), which are organized by topics. Traditionally, if an email is sent to everyone on your team, each person must decide how tag or organize emails in their account. In contrast, Slack provides the structure and organization for all users on the team. Each user clicks on a specific topic, or channel, and all the messages related to that topic are already there, thereby reducing the organizational burden. In a slack team used by academic department, topics can be anything from announcements of #conferences, #workshops, #jobs, #seminars, #working_groups, #good_reads, #food_alerts, #payroll, and #IT_help. You can write public messages in the individual channels or send private direct messages to anyone on your team. Everything in Slack is searchable (e.g. files, conversations, people). Finally, Slack includes a lot of functionality and integration with other useful tools such as Google Drive.<br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">[LCT] </span>Slack is a website that provides access to a group of message channels bundled together in what they call a workspace. These channels can have specific purposes and different sets of members. Slack also provides many integrations with other software that we commonly use, like integration with GitHub, todo lists, Google Calendar, Google Docs, etc. The idea of using Slack is to keep your communications with close colleagues organized and make them more fluid than email. You might use the <i>general</i> channel for making broad announcements, such as an interesting talk from a guest. Then switch to a private channel with your 4 colleagues for that new secret project you are working on and discuss some ideas that would be useful to explore in more detail. And finally, switch to a one-on-one channel with your advisor and ask if you can meet for a few minutes that later today. Like many websites, Slack is also available as its own desktop and phone applications.<br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">[SH]</span> While I communicate with colleagues everyday on Slack, I think it’s important to distinguish between Slack and email. Both are important, I just use them for different purposes. I view communication on Slack to be for instant, real-time messaging and discussion to increase collaboration. These are usually short messages compassing a single idea. In contrast, I view email to be a slower, more deliberate medium. There is less expectation for immediate response. In both cases, you can always turn them off completely and enjoy some peace too! <br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">[LCT]</span> I’m part of multiple Slack <i>workplaces</i> (collections of channels and users) but I mostly use one with my genomics collaborators. There, we have a channel per project, some of which can be silent for weeks/months. But that’s ok, because I can always jump back to them and revise what we were talking about. We have a channel for R questions, one for the team that I’m a part of (Andrew Jaffe’s lab), one for organizing when and where to eat lunch, another one with the recount2 team, a diversity channel, one for our computing cluster JHPCE, among others. I also frequently ask and get asked questions on one-on-one channels with Andrew’s lab members and people elsewhere from our genomics workplace. I love using Twitter for networking in academia and keeping myself updated. So I also tend to share relevant news to specific channels I’m a part of. For the project specific channels I also use the integration with GitHub to keep everything in one place and reduce the chance of git merge issues :P<br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">[SH]</span> I recently transitioned from being a postdoctoral research fellow to an assistant professor. Many people warned me about the increase in the number of emails that I would receive. While that is certainly true, I would attribute Slack to being the biggest mitigator in reducing the number of emails that I have received. It reduces my email burden and increases communication between collaborators and colleagues. When an email sometimes seems too formal, Slack is <b>perfect</b> for sending out quick messages.<br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">[LCT]</span> It greatly reduces the amount of emails and email chains. Also, I like having the option of more communication with all my colleagues than would be typically allowed via email. Like no one would like an email about some interesting R package tweet or emails about lunch. Also, it was very useful this past year when I advised two students. I could get them involved in different projects, get them observe how we do some things, but also provide them a space to ask me questions during the week outside of our weekly meeting slot. Ultimately, I like to be organized and Slack helps me stay organized.<br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">[SH]</span> I have found that the more I engage and write messages in channels on a Slack team, the more I get in return. As conversations flow in a given channel on a particular topic, I may or may not have anything useful to contribute. If it’s the former, I try to pass along links, advice, knowledge or whatever is appropriate. If it’s the latter, I still gain knowledge by being able to read other people’s responses and learning how others would have approached or solved a problem. Either way it’s a win-win!<br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">[LCT]</span> Regardless of what channel you use, it’s important to keep your messages polite. Basically, following a code of conduct similar to <a href="http://research.libd.org/rstatsclub/#coc">this one</a>. This is not the anonymous internet, here you are interacting with your colleagues and you have to be aware of biases you might have, otherwise you might perpetrate some problems <a href="https://work.qz.com/1128150/your-companys-slack-is-probably-sexist/">like sexism</a>. Remember, you share the responsibility of making sure that your Slack workspace is a welcoming environment where anyone is allowed to ask questions. I also think that it’s very important to keep your boundaries clear between work and home. I highly recommend going to your <i>preferences</i> and automatically disabling notifications outside work hours as shown below. That’s something you can’t do with Google Chat: yes, I might be available after work hours, but I want to choose whether to respond or not and I don’t want others to expect an immediate answer if they see me online.<br />
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If you want more, check <a href="https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1ji-3hLYPs3yIEu7wqyRdkGanxdON84ypuq8lyL5Yf-I/edit#slide=id.p">this great presentation</a> about Slack by Stephanie Hicks.<br />
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Stephanie Hickshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14984127187252119937noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8135734145926022209.post-8216506574869095702018-06-06T07:45:00.000-07:002018-06-06T13:24:40.805-07:00Addressing Sexual Misconduct in StatisticsThe cultural revolution from the recent <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23metoo&src=typd">#metoo</a> movement has demonstrated that sexual harassment and sexual assault are far too common and often go unreported in professional settings, including in the field of Statistics. In response to this, I have organized a late breaking session at the <a href="http://ww2.amstat.org/meetings/jsm/2018/">Joint Statistical Meetings</a> on <a href="http://ww2.amstat.org/meetings/jsm/2018/onlineprogram/AbstractDetails.cfm?abstractid=329833">Addressing Sexual Misconduct in Statistics</a> on Monday July 30, 2018 2-3:50pm in Vancouver, Canada.<br />
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The focus of this session is to bring together seven panelists to discuss how sexual misconduct can negatively impact the careers of the victims and how we as a community can make positive changes. Our goal is to open the dialogue on recognizing and condemning predatory sexual behavior, and provide support and inclusion to all members of the statistics community.<br />
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This session will be a <b>positive discussion</b> to address this topic and will offer perspectives from conference participants, elected leaders of professional societies, academic journal editors, academic department chairs, and program committee members. In addition, this session will also include the perspective of individuals who have been directly impacted by sexual harassment or assault, which is particularly relevant to other individuals in the audience who have also been impacted by sexual harassment or assault, but may not have discussed it publicly. <a href="http://kkorthauer.org/">Keegan Korthauer</a> will chair the session and our panelists will include:<br />
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<li><a href="http://drexel.edu/dornsife/academics/faculty/Leslie%20McClure/">Leslie McClure</a> is the Chair of the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at Drexel University, the Chair of the <a href="http://www.amstat.org/">American Statistical Association</a>’s (ASA) <a href="http://ww2.amstat.org/committees/commdetails.cfm?txtComm=ABTBOD05">Task Force on Sexual Harassment and Sexual Assault</a> and the Associate Director for Diversity for the Statistical and Applied Math Sciences Institute (SAMSI). She will discuss the purpose and goals of the ASA Task Force, her experience dealing with sexual harassment and assault as a victim, as well as her experience communicating about sexual harassment and assault as a department chair.</li>
<li><a href="http://magazine.amstat.org/blog/2018/03/01/emma-benn/">Emma Benn</a> is an <a href="https://www.mountsinai.org/profiles/emma-k-benn">Assistant Professor of Biostatistics and Director of Academic Programs</a> at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, co-founder of the Biostatistics Enrichment Summer Training (BEST) Diversity Program, co-chair of the Eastern North American Region of the International Biometric Society (ENAR) <a href="https://www.enar.org/meetings/FosteringDiversity/">Fostering Diversity in Biostatistics Workshop</a>, and a member of the ASA Task Force on Sexual Harassment and Sexual Assault. She will share her experience championing diversity and her experience promoting an inclusive and welcoming environment in the field of statistics and data science for women, racial/ethnic minorities, and individuals from the LGBTQ community. </li>
<li><a href="http://www.dicook.org/">Dianne Cook</a> is a Professor of Business Analytics in the Department of Econometrics and Business Statistics at <a href="https://www.monash.edu/">Monash University</a>, an ASA Fellow, <a href="https://www.monash.edu/business/news-and-events/2016/the-power-of-r-professor-dianne-cook-elected-to-esteemed-r-foundation">elected member of the global R Foundation</a>, member of <a href="https://www.meetup.com/R-Ladies-Melbourne/">R-Ladies Melbourne</a>, and the current editor of the <a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/ucgs20/current">Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics</a> (JCGS). She will discuss her efforts to promote diversity in her role as editor of JCGS and her effort to promote gender diversity in the R community at large. </li>
<li><a href="https://hrdag.org/people/kristian-lum-phd/">Kristian Lum</a> is the Lead Statistician at the <a href="https://hrdag.org/">Human Rights Data Analysis Group</a> (HRDAG) and author of a blogpost titled “<a href="https://medium.com/@kristianlum/statistics-we-have-a-problem-304638dc5de5">Statistics, we have a problem.</a>”, where she calls for our community to stop tolerating a culture of harassment with the hope that her story will help other women come forward who have been affected by sexual harassment or assault. She will discuss why she wrote the post, some things one thinks about in terms of consequences of reporting, how the community could have better structures in place so that reporting along official channels is a reasonable alternative to a very public report. </li>
<li><a href="http://staff.qut.edu.au/staff/mengerse/">Kerrie Mengersen</a> is a Professor of Statistics at <a href="https://www.qut.edu.au/">Queensland University of Technology</a> and the former President of the <a href="https://bayesian.org/">International Society for Bayesian Analysis</a> (ISBA). She will discuss how <a href="https://bayesian.org/membership/safe-isba/">ISBA is addressing the topic of harassment</a>, give an overview of similar efforts in Australia, comment on her experience as a manager of students from diverse backgrounds, and review changes in perceptions and actions over the course of her career. </li>
<li><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/brian-millen-2798703/">Brian Millen</a> is a Senior Director in Global Statistical Sciences at <a href="https://www.lilly.com/">Eli Lilly</a>. He launched the first <a href="http://magazine.amstat.org/blog/2016/09/01/jsmdiversity/">JSM Diversity Workshop</a> in 2009, and served as Chair of the <a href="http://community.amstat.org/cmis/home">ASA Committee on Minorities in Statistics</a> from 2009-2012. Dr. Millen is a Statistics leader and advocate for diversity and inclusion. He will share suggestions on the roles men can play in creating an inclusive culture which combats gender bias and sexual aggression.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.sph.emory.edu/faculty/profile/#!LWALLER">Lance Waller</a> is the Chair of the <a href="https://www.sph.emory.edu/departments/bios/index.html">Biostatistics Department</a> at <a href="http://www.emory.edu/">Emory University</a>, an ASA Fellow, and served as President of <a href="https://www.enar.org/">ENAR</a> in 2009. He will discuss his experience as both a department chair of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics at Emory University, and an advocate for women and minorities in statistics and data science.</li>
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If you are planning on attending <a href="https://twitter.com/search?src=typd&q=%23jsm2018">#JSM2018</a>, I invite you to join us. </div>
Stephanie Hickshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14984127187252119937noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8135734145926022209.post-50954633362594708382018-02-09T10:12:00.000-08:002018-02-09T10:32:20.285-08:00Lessons learned from applying for scholarshipsAs a graduate student (many moons ago), I applied for the <a href="http://www.amstat.org/ASA/Your-Career/Awards/Gertrude-M-Cox-Scholarship.aspx">Gertrude M. Cox Scholarship</a> from the <a href="http://www.amstat.org/">American Statistical Association</a>. The purpose is "<i>to encourage more women to enter statistically oriented professions</i>". I was a woman pursing a PhD in Statistics and wanted to enter a statistically oriented profession, so I wrote an essay and submitted an application. In the essay, I explained how I got interested in statistics and why I decided to pursue a PhD. At the time, I did not have many examples of "acts of leadership", but I had done some community service and/or mentoring as an undergraduate student. Afterwards, I was sad to find out I was not selected. However, forcing myself to go through that process taught me a few general lessons when applying for scholarships (and more general things e.g. grants, papers) that have stuck with me over the years. I figured it might be worth sharing them here.<br />
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<li>As a student, it is easy to feel like your resume/CV is sparse or you do not have much to write about. You may have started a graduate program right after completing your undergraduate degree without any work experience. You may still be taking a lot of classes or not have much teaching experience. You may be early in your graduate program without any research experience or peer-reviewed publications. <b>What is most important is your ability to communicate why you are interested in your area, why it is exciting, and why others should be excited about it.</b> If you have done work or made contributions in the area, great. Write about it. However, as someone who now reviews <a href="http://www.scienceambassadorscholarship.org/">applications for a full-tuition scholarship for women interested in STEM</a> funded by <a href="https://cardsagainsthumanity.com/">Cards Against Humanity</a> I believe it is much more important to say why you are passionate by whatever you are interested in, irrespective of how much you may or may not have accomplished. </li>
<li><b>Recommendation letters matter</b>. You want to ask individuals who <i>really</i> know you. If you ask a professor who only knows that you made an A in their class and can't say much more, that comes across loud and clear in the recommendation letter. You want to ask individuals who will actively advocate for you. </li>
<li><b>Rejection is part of life and do not it deter you from pursing your passions or dreams</b>. I will be honest: I am still struggling with this one even to this day. However, it has gotten easier over the years because I have learned to not take it personally. But seriously, some days I want to scream at the top of my lungs 'WHY DIDN'T YOU PICK ME? WHY DIDN'T YOU SELECT MY GRANT? WHY DIDN'T YOU ACCEPT MY PAPER?', etc. During those moments, I just remind myself I only have control over the next award I apply for, the next paper I submit, the next grant I write. </li>
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Anyways, if you are woman in a full-time graduate Statistics program (MS or PhD) and a citizen or permanent resident of the US or Canada, I would encourage you to apply for the <a href="http://www.amstat.org/ASA/Your-Career/Awards/Gertrude-M-Cox-Scholarship.aspx">Gertrude M. Cox Scholarship</a>. Applications are due two weeks from today (February 23, 2018). For what it's worth, I posted my (unsuccessful) <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1BKOXPZG25GX9uxVbN8V4H-MY0097Xg4Q/view?usp=sharing">application essay</a> for the scholarship. Maybe it will help someone else write their essay! </div>
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Stephanie Hickshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14984127187252119937noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8135734145926022209.post-1732343825513386722017-10-14T17:20:00.000-07:002017-10-14T17:20:01.515-07:00Rainbow Chocolate Cake<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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My husband's birthday was two months ago and we really didn't get a chance to celebrate it at the time. As we were walking through the grocery store today, I asked him if he would like to make a birthday cake / dessert this weekend to properly celebrate it! I left him in the baking aisle to ponder all the possibilities. A few minutes later, he rounded the corner with a box of Rainbow "Tie-Dye" cake mix and chocolate funfetti icing!<br />
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When we got home, I started reading and following the instructions. The beginning was pretty straight forward. Mix cake mix, water, oil and, interestingly, only egg whites (no yolks). I can only assume that is to not tint the colors? Not sure though. Then, I split the cake batter into six bowls with approximately 2/3 cup cake batter in each bowl. <br />
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The box came with three packets of dye (yellow, red, and blue) and instructions on how many drops of each color to fill the six bowls of cake mix. I really liked the brightness of the red ad blue colors.<br />
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I don't have two 8" round cake pans, but the instructions said a greased 9x13 pan would work. For this pan, I poured all the cake batter from each individual bowl into the 9x13 pan in the following order: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and finally purple. The trick is to pour the next color directly in the middle of where the last color was poured. Each layer will slowly spread out as you add an additional layer. The last step is to lightly jiggle the pan to even out any cake batter that may have been uneven. This was the cake after I jiggled it a bit.<br />
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I baked the cake in a 350F oven for 32 minutes and tested with a knife to see if it was done. Looked good to me! Then I let it cool an hour before trying to decorate it with icing.<br />
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After letting it cool, I removed it from the pan and covered it in chocolate funfetti icing! We sang Happy (belated) Birthday to him and enjoyed it after our dinner tonight. Hopefully, this post will inspire a little color creativity in your next baking adventure!<br />
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The idea is you start with some image (either in a JPEG or PNG format). Here I'm using <a href="https://twitter.com/rafalab">Rafa's twitter profile picture</a> in a JPEG format.<br />
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I'm using the <span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">readJPEG()</span> function from the <a href="https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/jpeg/">R jpeg package</a> to read in the JPEG image. Alternatively, you can use the <span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">readPNG()</span> function from the <a href="https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/png/">R png package</a> to read in a PNG image. If you read the help file of <span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">readJPEG()</span>, it says it "reads an image from a JPEG file/content into a raster array". OK, first off what do we mean by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raster_graphics">raster</a>? You can think of a raster image as a rectangular grid of pixels. In the help file for the readJPEG() function, it states "most common files decompress into RGB channels (3 channels)" where RGB stands for red, green and blue.<br />
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So, this means for each pixel in the original image, we should expect 3 values (one for red, green and blue). These values range between 0 and 1 and can be thought of the intensity of each color in the image. Below, I'm showing the intensity values from the three channels colored on the same scale (top row) and colored in the red, green and blue scales (bottom row).<br />
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To get the intensity of how light a particular pixel is, we can just average the values across the three channels. Next, we flip the intensity scale by subtracting the intensity scale from 1 to see how dark/black a particular pixel is. This makes the previously dark areas now light and vice versa (top left figure below). To control the contrast of intensity, you can just take powers of the intensity values. The lighter the background, the better the contrast will be between the individual and background on the original scale. Depending on the background in the original image, the skin tone, etc you may need to tinker with the contrast. I've shown the original scale and powers of 2, 4, and 8 below.<br />
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Next, we sample points proportional to the (powered) intensity level, add a bit of random noise and then plot the sample points along the x and y axis. In the picture below, you can really see how the power is very important to control the contrast levels.<br />
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<br />Stephanie Hickshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14984127187252119937noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8135734145926022209.post-81265414931538374932017-01-05T09:19:00.004-08:002017-01-05T09:19:38.814-08:00Women in Statistics and Data Science Conference 2016Happy New Year everyone! After a wonderful holiday break, I was excited to find my copy of <a href="http://magazine.amstat.org/">AMSTAT News</a> from the <a href="http://www.amstat.org/">American Statistical Association</a> in my mailbox! Someone pointed out to me that if you look close enough, I can be found standing in the background on the front cover of the Dec 2016 issue. So, apparently I can check off 'being on the cover a magazine' from my bucket list. ;)<br />
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The <a href="http://magazine.amstat.org/blog/2016/12/01/wsds2016/">picture</a> was a snapshot of an audience at talk from the <a href="https://ww2.amstat.org/meetings/wsds/2016/">Women in Statistics and Data Science Conference (WSDS) 2016</a> which was held in Charlotte, North Carolina Oct 20-22, 2016. The <a href="http://magazine.amstat.org/blog/2016/12/01/wsds2016/">cover story can be found here</a>. In 2014, I attended the <a href="http://statisticalrecipes.blogspot.com/2014/05/inaugural-women-in-statistics-2014.html">inaugural Women in Statistics Conference</a> and was fortunate enough to attend the conference again this year! Looking back through blogposts this fall, I realized I did not write a blog entry after I returned from the conference, but I <a href="https://github.com/stephaniehicks/classroomNotes/blob/master/conferences/2016/WSDS2016.md">did manage keep a few notes in a Github repo of a few of the talks</a>. Here, I want to summarize some of my thoughts and experiences of WSDS 2016 and at the end I describe a few suggestions for future WSDS conferences. I was not able to attend all the talks mostly because there were many concurrent sessions happening at the same time, but I hope this highlights at least a portion of the conference!<br />
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The picture above was taken in a talk by one of my favorite speakers from the 2016 conference, Erin Anika Wiley from <a href="https://www.westat.com/">Westat</a>, titled "<i>Do you Hear What I Hear?: An Examination of Effective Communication</i>". I managed to slip into the back of jammed packed room and furiously write down notes on the results of a survey she conducted asking about opinions of presentations from statisticians. I love that this was the front cover of the magazine because Erin really had the audience laughing and engaged for her entire talk. Also, it was humbling and enlightening to hear the survey responses on how non-statisticians perceive statisticians based on talks and presentations. Definitely motivation for how we <a href="http://magazine.amstat.org/blog/2014/01/01/trilobites-and-us/">can communicate our results more effectively</a>!<br />
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The first keynote address was from <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/cynthia-clark-25146829">Cynthia Clark</a> titled "<i>Consider your legacy</i>". She gave inspirational talk discussing what her contributions have been in her personal and professional life. As a new mother, I sincerely appreciated hearing how she prioritized her family throughout her life.<br />
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Another great keynote address was from <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/stacy-lindborg-a6722814">Stacy Lindborg</a> at <a href="https://www.biogen.com/">Biogen</a> with a talk titled "<i>Know your power</i>". Stacy is a natural at connecting with the audience by sharing personal stories from her life. In this talk, she shared five reflections/tips on having a successful career in the face of many challenges (both personal and professional). One of my favorite quotes from her talk was "We love the things that we are good at", which really resonated with me.<br />
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Keeping with theme of careers, a topic I found particularly interesting is how to navigate changes in your career. Michelle Dunn, Donna LaLonde, and Nancy Flournoy shared very honest and personal experiences of following non-traditional career paths, recognizing and moving forward when you have failed, and knowing when to leave a job. A central theme from each of their talks was to always be growing your network and find trusted individuals/mentors to help you navigate these experiences.<br />
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Similar to the session in 2014, the 2016 conference included a fantastic panel of the past, current and future ASA Presidents. These women were able to persevere in the face of a highly male-dominated field to become ASA Presidents and become role models for women in the early stages of their career like me. Even with all this progress, I agree with <a href="http://www.stat.purdue.edu/people/faculty/mbock">Mary Ellen Bock</a> that there is so much more work still to do with supporting more specific minority groups in this field. For example, she eloquently described her hope of one day seeing a non-white woman on this panel of presidents.<br />
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In my opinion, one of the coolest sessions was listening to the amazing <a href="http://www.american.edu/cas/faculty/mgray.cfm">Mary W. Gray from American University</a> giving a fascinating discussion on what US laws exist to protect women. If you don't know who she is, you can read a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_W._Gray">summary on wikipedia</a>, which is pretty incredible! One of my favorite things that I learned about her was that she wears a 3/4 euro lapel pin (noting pay inequality is not limited to the US) to promote "equal pay for equal work" referring to the Equal Pay Act in 1963 and Title VII in 1964. Sadly I didn't get a picture of the lapel pin, but I love the idea!<br />
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Wendy Martinez from the Bureau of Labor Statistics gave a great keynote address on what and how federal statistical agencies are thinking about when it comes to data science. Data science is something I am passionate about, so I really enjoyed this talk. I would have loved to see a larger emphasis on data science education though.<br />
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Unfortunately <a href="https://www.stat.berkeley.edu/~binyu/Site/Welcome.html">Bin Yu from UC Berkeley</a> was unable to join us in person, but the conference organizers were able to set up a video chat and connect to the big screen! Her talk was titled "<i>A holistic approach to interdisciplinary research</i>" where she began discussing how she has a people centric view of life and research (people are mysteries to unveil just like research). It was amazing to hear a little bit about her background and how she grew up in China during the cultural revolution (1966-1976) where the universities stopped for 10 years. Something I think that cannot be overstated was she noted that she most appreciates intellectual diversity in collaboration and research. Overall, it was an inspiring talk!<br />
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The conference ended with a festive dinner filled with new friends, awards, presentations and delicious desserts!<br />
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As the conference took place at a hotel, I managed to find a nice location to <a href="https://github.com/stephaniehicks/classroomNotes/blob/master/conferences/2016/WSDS2016.md">write down some notes from the talks on my GitHub page</a>. :) Feel free to check them out for more details on the talks that I attended.<br />
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Finally, I want to finish this blogpost with a few suggestions for future WSDS conferences. My intention is for these suggestions to be viewed as constructive to help make this conference stronger and more accessible to women in the future.<br />
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<li>Fewer talks running concurrently and more posters/speed sessions. I appreciated that the keynote talks did not have other scheduled talks, but at other times I had to choose between 5-6 sessions running concurrently, which led to frustration and disappointment that I missed so many other talks. My arguments for this are similar to the <a href="https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5006630b24ac4eefa45a0d3e/t/55c286cfe4b08e47d6f66139/1438811855682/JSM_Recs_InformalJrCommittee.pdf">ideas previously described to improve JSM (decreasing the number of contributed sessions and increasing the presence and importance of poster sessions)</a>. </li>
<li>More talks from women in data scientist positions in academia, government, and industry. I recognize that the term "data science" is very much <a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/roundtable-on-data-science-post-secondary-education-meeting-1-registration-28948077479#">being actively debated in many settings</a>, but as this conference now has "data science" in the title, I would love to see a larger discussion of data science and how that relates to statistics, here too. There was such a great representation of perspectives from women who pioneered this field. I think it would be equally beneficial to include the perspective from a new generation of women in data science positions. </li>
<li>Childcare. I was surprised to find out that no childcare was available at this conference. Considering a good portion of this conference was dedicated towards discussing issues related to balancing careers with families, I found a lack of childcare a bit ironic (?). This suggestion is motivated by my own personal experience of recently having a baby. I saw several other WSDS attendees who brought their children and probably could have benefited from a childcare service. There are <a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1m9Bj26_NxMuNu_Yn-hyxpMdVIT_RmUDLvNzzchx7cxY/edit#gid=0">great childcare examples broken down by cost, size of conference, childcare agency, fees charged</a>, etc. I hope this will be incorporated in future WSDS conferences. </li>
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Thank you to all the conference organizers for putting together this <span style="text-align: center;">conference. I look forward to the next one in La Jolla, CA Oct 19-21, 2017! </span><br />
<br />Stephanie Hickshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14984127187252119937noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8135734145926022209.post-5900868845053563172016-11-09T05:00:00.000-08:002016-11-09T05:00:31.937-08:00Time-Tested French Onion Soup<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 3pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This recipe comes from </span><a href="https://americastestkitchen.buysub.com/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Cook's Illustrated All-Time Best French Recipes</span></a><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. Here’s a tip: go to your local library and look for </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Cook’s Illustrated</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> cookbooks or </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">America’s Test Kitchen </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">DVDs. I like these recipes because they are generally straightforward in terms of ingredients and cooking techniques. However, if a recipe calls for it, one thing they don’t skimp on is TIME. </span></div>
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We've got fine posts about <a href="http://statisticalrecipes.blogspot.com/2012/09/shrimp-and-sausage-gumbo.html">Gumbo</a>, <a href="http://statisticalrecipes.blogspot.com/2015/12/natchidoches-meat-pies.html">Natchidoches Meat Pies</a>, and <a href="http://statisticalrecipes.blogspot.com/2016/10/creole-jambalaya.html">Jambalaya</a>... so it's about time we made some etouffee!<br />
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As always, the Junior League of Lake Charles has some excellent recipes:<br />
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- 1.5 lbs shrimp (medium - extra large)<br />
- 1 onion<br />
- 1 bell pepper<br />
- 3 tomatoes<br />
- 4 stalks of celery<br />
- 5 green onions<br />
- 5 cloves of garlic<br />
- 1/2 cup all-purpose flour<br />
- 1/2 cup oil (we use canola)<br />
- 1-1/2 cup of rice<br />
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Assemble the veggies!<br />
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When the holy trinity has cooked down slightly, stir in the tomatoes and garlic.</div>
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Now is the time to prepare the rice. 1.5 cups of long-grain white rice and 2.25 cups of water.</div>
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Typically, etouffee is served over a big mound of rice, with a garnish of green onion tunics. Since the spice level is mild, I like to keep the hot sauce nearby.</div>
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If you missed the "Chili R&D" post from last month, it's a pre-requisite for this class.<br />
<a href="http://statisticalrecipes.blogspot.com/2016/09/chili-cook-off-r.html">LINK to Part 1</a><br />
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<u>Feedback from Round 1:</u><br />
- Beans are successful... but not the navy beans. The flavors didn't merge well.<br />
- Veggies are best appreciated when chopped, not powdered.<br />
- Gravy was slightly too thick and greasy. Less corn starch and fat are required.<br />
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- Bean type (black vs pinto vs red kidney)<br />
- Veggie size (diced vs powdered)<br />
- Gravy viscosity (corn starch and fat content)<br />
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- Meat type and quantity<br />
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Begin by arranging your ingredients.<br />
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Brown 3 lbs ground beef.<br />
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Form the ring of flavor.<br />
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Until they are translucent.<br />
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Add the V8, beef broth, tomato sauce, and spice mixture (<a href="http://statisticalrecipes.blogspot.com/2016/09/chili-cook-off-r.html">LINK to Part 1</a> without the garlic powder and onion powder).<br />
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Stir and let simmer for 2 hours. In the final 15 minutes, temper in corn starch to the desired thickness (it will stiffen as it cools).<br />
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Serve alone or with rice... or like we did with potato skins and cornbread muffins. Garnish with cheese, sour cream, green onions, and your favorite topping.<br />
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A quality sandwich isn't just a neat package for nutrition, it's a 1-2 punch of flavor and texture. Salty, sour, savory, creamy. Melty, chewy, fluffy, crispy. These are good descriptors of the Cuban sandwich... a simple recipe that transforms into a deli delicacy if you extract all the flavor from each ingredient.<br />
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<li>Ham with natural juices (not pre-sliced)</li>
<li>salami (thin sliced)</li>
<li>swiss cheese (sliced)</li>
<li>dill pickles (sliced)</li>
<li>yellow mustard</li>
<li>thin, crusty bread (like a baguette or similar roll)</li>
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If you watch enough Good Eats, you'll know what "Ham with Natural Juices" means. Slice into 1/4" slabs.<br />
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Test your elementary school shape skills, to maximize coverage and minimize waste.<br />
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Organize your ham optimally and lightly season with your favorite spice blend.</div>
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Pan fry the ham until both sides are browned.</div>
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Also pan fried to perfection.</div>
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Organize the ingredients for assembly. Start with mustard on both sides.</div>
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First layer is the ham.</div>
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Second layer is the salami.</div>
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<u>Shameful Omission:</u> We forgot to take a final picture. Here's a picture that looks really similar from lovefood.com.<br />
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If you recall our New Year's recipe of Black-Eyed Peas (<a href="http://statisticalrecipes.blogspot.com/2015/12/its-long-standing-tradition-in-south.html">LINK</a>), this will be pretty similar. It's a slow-cooking dish with simple ingredients that meld into magic. The Boston Baked variety highlights the classic American flavors of molasses, ketchup, and brown sugar.<br />
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Here's the recipe:<br />
1 pound Navy beans or kidney beans<br />
1/3 cup molasses<br />
1/3 cup brown sugar<br />
1/4 cup ketchup<br />
1/2 pound salt pork<br />
2 onions<br />
4-6 cloves of garlic<br />
1/2 teaspoon of ground mustard<br />
1 tablespoon of cumin<br />
1 tablespoon of paprika<br />
2 teaspoons of salt<br />
2 teaspoons of black pepper<br />
a few dashes of Worcestershire sauce<br />
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Soak the beans overnight in a gigantic bowl.<br />
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Start by browning the outside of the salt pork.<br />
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Chop the garlic and slice the onions.</div>
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Pull the browned salt pork, and start cooking down the onions in the pork drippings.<br />
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Chop the salt pork into 3/8" x 3/8"<br />
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Add the garlic and salt pork when the onions start to soften.<br />
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Add all of the remaining ingredients (ketchup, molasses, brown sugar, Worcestershire, seasonings).<br />
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Drain the beans and add them.<br />
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Fill with water to cover the beans and mix thoroughly.</div>
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Bring to a boil and simmer until the beans are tender and the sauce has thickened. You're allowed to over-cook these, compared to black-eyed peas and red beans. It should take a couple hours.</div>
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An important distinction to make is Creole vs Cajun. Cajun comes from the term "Acadiana" which describes the central and southern Louisiana areas and its culture. Creole refers to the people and culture that blended the French colonial culture with African, Caribbean, and native people.<br />
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Cajun cuisine uses a limited set of ingredients, which were easily accessible to the area. Ingredients often traveled along the Missisippi river and local roads. It's generally considered "country food."<br />
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Creole cuisine has access to a wider pantry, due to the trading through the port of New Orleans. The people brought a "big city" spin on the classic Cajun dishes. Since this jambalaya uses tomatoes, it's considered Creole (although my family grew tomatoes in Bossier City, LA).<br />
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This recipe will be very familiar to those who are playing along at home (<a href="http://statisticalrecipes.blogspot.com/2012/09/shrimp-and-sausage-gumbo.html">LINK to Gumbo</a>). Instead of being a soup, it's a rice-based dish with similar preparation and ingredients. The recipe comes from the Junior League of Lake Charles and their book "Pirate's Pantry."<br />
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We begin by chopping the mirepoix (celery, onion, and bell pepper) with a couple cloves of garlic.<br />
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Slice the sausage and allow the shrimp to thaw.<br />
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After a couple minutes, drop in the garlic and keep stirring to prevent burned garlic.<br />
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If you're using the Creole recipe, add diced tomatoes and some water to "soupy" consistency.<br />
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Let the sausage and veggie mixture stew. Add the spice blend, then peel the shrimp.<br />
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As data scientists, the obvious first step in preparation for a friendly Chili Cook-Off is to conduct a survey. Hypothetically, we should be able to optimize the recipe by robustly maximizing an estimator of vote probability.</div>
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The feedback from coworkers indicate:</div>
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- Meat is generally expected.</div>
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Next, we reviewed previous chili championship recipes:</div>
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Next, we develop the flavor package. Here, we used:<br />
- 1 tbsp Mexican chili powder<br />
- 1 tbsp regular chili powder<br />
- 1 tbsp paprika<br />
- 1 tbsp garlic powder<br />
- 1 tbsp cumin<br />
- 1 tbsp ground black pepper<br />
- 3 tbsp onion powder<br />
- 1/2 tbsp salt<br />
- 2 bay leaves<br />
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<b><u>Variant #2:</u> Bean Chili</b></div>
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As predicted, Variant #2 & #3 received positive feedback from the taste-testers. Future experiments might include turkey, bell peppers, and red beans. Since our target is not "true" competition chili, it may be worthwhile to convert the garlic/onion from powder to fresh veggies.Stephanie Hickshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14984127187252119937noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8135734145926022209.post-80895238907298728382016-09-21T03:50:00.000-07:002016-10-25T00:19:10.257-07:002016 Single Cell Genomics Conference Last week I attended the <a href="https://coursesandconferences.wellcomegenomecampus.org/events/item.aspx?e=596">2016 Single Cell Genomics (SCG) Conference</a> at the <a href="https://www.wellcomegenomecampus.org/">Wellcome Genome Campus</a> in Hinxton, Cambridge, UK. This conference started in <a href="http://www.weizmann.ac.il/conferences/SCG2013/welcome">2013 at the Weizmann Institute of Science</a>, moved to the Karolina Institute in 2014, and was most recently held in <a href="http://www.weizmann.ac.il/conferences/SCG2015/welcome">the Hubrecht Institute in 2015</a>. A <a href="http://conf.hinxton.wellcome.ac.uk/advancedcourses/SSG16draftprogrammeFinal.pdf">PDF of the program is located here</a> and <a href="https://github.com/stephaniehicks/classroomNotes/blob/master/conferences/SCGen2016.md">my notes on the talks</a> including links to various methods, publications and twitter accounts for the speakers are on GitHub. You could follow the tweets online using the <a href="https://twitter.com/search?f=tweets&vertical=default&q=%23SCGen16&src=typd)">twitter hashtag of #SCGen16</a>.<br />
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John Marioni kicking off <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/scgen16?src=hash">#scgen16</a> <a href="https://t.co/bD7H7rhsBN">pic.twitter.com/bD7H7rhsBN</a></div>
— Martin Hemberg (@m_hemberg) <a href="https://twitter.com/m_hemberg/status/776042076442099712">September 14, 2016</a></blockquote>
This was a fantastic conference that I would highly suggest to anyone working in the single cell genomics world. Some random take aways of things I noticed compared to other conferences I recently attended were:<br />
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1. I was bummed that many of the speakers did not have their talks streamed. As I attended in person, I was fortunate enough to see all the talks, but apparently there was a pretty big waitlist for this conference. The organizers decided to offer a stream for a reduced registration fee with the caveat that not all talks may be streamed. I assume this was primarily driven by the fact that many presenters discussed unpublished work, but still I'm sure this was frustrating for the waitlisted individuals who were not able to attend in person. <br />
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Deeply dissapointed that all speakers in the last session have requested their talks NOT be streamed <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/SCGen16?src=hash">#SCGen16</a></div>
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Hope immunologists are more open to streaming for the less fortunate people who were left out due to lack of space <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/SCGen16?src=hash">#SCGen16</a></div>
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2. Similar to #1, almost none of the speakers made their slides available online (even the ones that agreed to have their talk streamed). I <a href="http://statisticalrecipes.blogspot.com/2016/07/attending-jsm-conference-2016-in-chicago.html">recently attend</a> the <a href="https://ww2.amstat.org/meetings/jsm/2016/">Joint Statistical Meetings in Chicago, IL July 31-Aug 3</a> this year where <a href="https://github.com/kbroman/JSM2016slides/blob/master/ReadMe.md">Karl Broman kept a great list of links to talks from speakers at JSM 2016</a> (I also kept <a href="https://github.com/stephaniehicks/classroomNotes/blob/master/conferences/JSM2016.md">my own notes</a>). I was really hoping to be able to go back and review slides after the conference ended, but to my knowledge, <a href="https://speakerdeck.com/stephaniehicks/towards-progress-in-batch-effects-and-biases-in-single-cell-rna-seq-data">I was the only one to post slides</a>. To be fair, JSM is significantly larger than the single-cell genomics conference, but I was expecting at least some speakers to post their slides online. I gave a talk on progress in deal with batch effects and biases in single-cell RNA-seq data.<br />
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3. The power of the pre-print! Much of the work discussed was either published or in pre-prints. Sarah Teichmann presented work on the sensitivity, specificity and accuracy of different scRNA-seq protocols using ERCC spike-ins and has a <a href="http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2016/09/08/073692">pre-print available on bioRxiv</a>. She humorously pointed out a sense of relief after Lior Pachter sounding positive about the paper by tweeting it.<br />
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Power of <a href="https://twitter.com/biorxivpreprint">@biorxivpreprint</a> ;-) <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/SCGen16?src=hash">#SCGen16</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ASAPbio?src=hash">#ASAPbio</a> <a href="https://t.co/ZZF1kuvXnt">pic.twitter.com/ZZF1kuvXnt</a></div>
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4. As someone who's very much interested in <a href="http://statisticalrecipes.blogspot.com/2014/05/inaugural-women-in-statistics-2014.html">promoting women in STEM</a>, I was interested to see the ratio of female to male speakers and attendees at the conference. Though there were fewer women, I was excited to see such prominent women showcasing their work, but as always, there is room for improvement. <a href="https://github.com/seandavi/awesome-single-cell">Sean Davis from NCI has a single cell GitHub repository</a>, which contains list of people (males and females) working in this field. It would be great place to start for looking for additional female speakers.<br />
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Breakdown of speakers (by my count) at <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/SCGen16?src=hash">#SCGen16</a>: 28 men and 12 women (30%). Room for improvement.</div>
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5. Finally, there were many fantastic biological talks and a lesser number of equally wonderful methods talks, but a few of my favorite methods talks included:<br />
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Allon Klein's talk on visualisation and cell fate prediction by far the most engaging of the conference <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/SCGen16?src=hash">#SCGen16</a></div>
— Larry Bird, PhD (@Bird_leahry) <a href="https://twitter.com/Bird_leahry/status/776730886582759424">September 16, 2016</a></blockquote>
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David van Dijk: "MAGIC" method for diffusion-based imputation of expression values in scRNA-seq data. Promising results, lots of Qs <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/SCGen16?src=hash">#SCGen16</a></div>
— Davis McCarthy (@davisjmcc) <a href="https://twitter.com/davisjmcc/status/776819110298673152">September 16, 2016</a></blockquote>
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John Marioni of the EBI gets computational. How to quantify technical noise? <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/SCGen16?src=hash">#SCGen16</a></div>
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6. Lack of twitter presence. I don't believe having a twitter presence is relevant to having good research in genomics, but I have noticed a large community of people who work in genomics on twitter. Therefore, it was interesting to me that so few of the speakers at this conference had a presence on twitter. Just for my own curiosity, I did a quick analysis of the tweets from there conference [<a href="https://github.com/stephaniehicks/classroomNotes/blob/master/conferences/2016/SCGen16Tweets/scgen16.Rmd">code in RMarkdown</a>] to find out the top 50 most tweeted words at the conference (after removing the #scgen16 hashtag). <br />
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2 years ago, we went to Kauai, Hawaii for our honeymoon. Besides the normal tourist checklist of surfing, lū'aus, and plantation tours... we sought out the best local foods. Fish tacos were consumed daily, and we sampled all of the traditional favorites (poi, kukui, pineapple, avocados. lomi-lomi salmon, and k<span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px;">ā</span>lua pork), </div>
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One of our favorite local foods was poke! It's a great blend of simplicity and bold flavors. Let's dive into the recipe:<br />
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4 tablespoons of Tamari soy sauce<br />
1 tablespoon of sesame oil<br />
1 teaspoon of red pepper flakes<br />
2 tablespoons of sesame seeds<br />
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(believe it or not) You can get tuna at many supermarkets that is suitable for eating raw. If you don't have access to a top-tier fishmonger like the ones on the harbors of Boston and New York, it's best to get your fish frozen and vacuum-packed at the source (the fishing boat). Sometimes the local fishmonger will have access to some #2 or #3 grade tuna, but you'll want a tracking report to ensure that your fish never got above freezing.<br />
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Stephanie Hickshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14984127187252119937noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8135734145926022209.post-87260211581164633162016-08-03T08:09:00.002-07:002016-08-03T08:09:47.855-07:00Data Science Initiative at Rice UniversityThere are many Masters in Data Science programs that have been developed over the last few years including at <a href="http://www.mastersindatascience.org/schools/23-great-schools-with-masters-programs-in-data-science/">universities</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massive_open_online_course">massive open online courses (MOOCs)</a> such as the <a href="https://www.coursera.org/specializations/jhu-data-science">Data Science Specialization on Coursera</a> or if you're really self motivated an <a href="http://datasciencemasters.org/">Open Source Data Science Masters</a> curriculum that you can work through at your own pace. A few weeks ago I was happy to see my graduate school alma mater (Rice University in Houston, TX) announced that it was <a href="http://news.rice.edu/2016/07/12/rice-wins-interdisciplinary-big-data-grant-2/">awarded a $1.4 million dollar grant from the NSF</a> to start a Data Science program between faculty in the <a href="http://statistics.rice.edu/">Statistics</a> and <a href="http://www.cs.rice.edu/">Computer Science</a> departments. The money will be used to develop courses by faculty in both departments and to allow undergraduate students, graduate students and postdoctoral researchers to take courses and complete research projects. This comes after the university announced last fall <a href="http://news.rice.edu/2015/09/21/rice-announces-150-million-in-strategic-research-initiatives/">a $43 million dollar investment of establishing a world-class program in data science</a>. I look forward to seeing exciting things from these two initiatives!<br />
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<br />Stephanie Hickshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14984127187252119937noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8135734145926022209.post-76076460440143531032016-07-29T10:43:00.001-07:002016-10-25T00:19:52.354-07:00Attending JSM Conference 2016 in ChicagoThis weekend I'm headed to Chicago to the big, annual conference for statisticians in North America: the <a href="http://www.amstat.org/meetings/jsm.cfm">Joint Statistical Meetings (JSM)</a>. I'll be there Sunday through Wednesday afternoon and I'm giving a talk on Tuesday in <a href="https://www.amstat.org/meetings/jsm/2016/onlineprogram/ActivityDetails.cfm?SessionID=212483">Session #405 titled 'Statistical Challenges in the Analysis of Single-Cell RNA-Seq Data</a>'. In preparation for the conference, I started a set of <a href="https://github.com/stephaniehicks/classroomNotes/blob/master/conferences/2016/JSM2016.md">notes on GitHub of the sessions I'm mostly interested in attending</a>. As I attend various sessions, I'll add more notes of software, papers and links from the talks. Looking forward to catching up with some old friends and meeting new friends!Stephanie Hickshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14984127187252119937noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8135734145926022209.post-51099512900216832182016-07-20T11:17:00.002-07:002016-07-29T10:44:58.083-07:00Problems installing latest R version on clusterFor my research, I often need to access R on a cluster instead of on my personal laptop. This week I tried to update to the <a href="https://cran.r-project.org/src/base/R-3/R-3.3.1.tar.gz">latest version of R-3.3.1</a> and I found out it is no longer as simple as it used to be. Previously, I would just follow <a href="https://github.com/stephaniehicks/RNotes/blob/master/installRLocal.md">my notes on installing R and R packages locally which is posted on GitHub</a>. To install the latest R (currently version 3.3), I needed to access newer versions of some libraries (zlib, bzip2, curl, pcre and xz). The './configure' step would fail without access to the updated libraries. Usually these types of packages would be included in the installation of R on linux, but it is no longer included. Instead, it assumes these libraries are already installed and updated.<br />
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This led to some frustration. Then a postdoc in our lab (<a href="https://twitter.com/mikelove">Mike Love</a>) sent me this <a href="http://pj.freefaculty.org/blog/?p=315">wonderful step-by-step tutorial</a> on getting the updated libraries and successfully installing the latest R. As the tutorial mentions, if the system admins update these libraries, you won't run into this problem. If they don't keep this libraries up-to-date, then you will find this tutorial to be very helpful.<br />
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After recently visiting Baltimore, we wanted to learn more about the local food culture. For anyone who has been there, you'll know that crab cakes and Old Bay seasoning are staples of the area.</div>
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Old Bay was originally developed by a Jewish man named Gustav Brunn, who fled Germany in 1939. After establishing himself on the Chesapeake Bay (which stretches from Virginia Beach to the Pennsylvania border), his seasoning took the name "Old Bay" from the iconic overnight mail service that ran from Baltimore, MD to Norfolk, VA. The Baltimore Steam Packet Company was nicknamed "the Old Bay Line," which survived attacks during the The Civil War and government requisition for WWII. After reopening as an automobile ferry service, the company went under... but the Old Bay seasoning continued to gain popularity as a seafood seasoning, since it kept tavern-goers thirsty. In 1990, McCormick & Co bought the Old Bay brand (with Zatarain's and Lowry's following).</div>
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Contents of Old Bay seasoning are:</div>
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<li><i>celery salt (ground celery seed and salt)</i></li>
<li><i>paprika</i></li>
<li><i>black pepper</i></li>
<li><i>cayenne pepper</i></li>
<li><i>ground mustard powder</i></li>
<li><i>bay leaf powder</i></li>
<li><i>other trace spices (cinnamon, allspice, nutmeg, ginger, clove, cardamom, etc)</i></li>
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Today's recipe is based on one developed by Jenn @ Once Upon A Chef: <a href="http://www.onceuponachef.com/2010/07/maryland-crab-cakes-with-quick-tartar-sauce.html">LINK</a></div>
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<li><i>2 large eggs</i></li>
<li><i>2-1/2 tablespoons mayonnaise</i></li>
<li><i>1 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce</i></li>
<li><i>1 teaspoon Old Bay seasoning</i></li>
<li><i>1 teaspoon garlic powder</i></li>
<li><i>1/2 teaspoon chili powder</i></li>
<li><i>1/2 teaspoon black pepper</i></li>
<li><i>1/4 teaspoon salt</i></li>
<li><i>pinch of ground mustard</i></li>
<li><i>1 large stalk of celery, finely diced</i></li>
<li><i>1/4 large onion, finely diced</i></li>
<li><i>2 tablespoons celery leaves, finely chopped</i></li>
<li><i>1 pound lump crab meat</i></li>
<li><i>~1 cup panko</i></li>
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Mix together all ingredients.</div>
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Scoop the melange into patties.</div>
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Shallow fry the patties in canola oil.</div>
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Flip when they are golden brown (and delicious).</div>
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<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pi_Day">Happy Pi Day</a>! Today is my one my husband's favorite days of the year, partly because pie usually appears in our kitchen around this time, but mostly because we are both have a love for all things math-y.<br />
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Spring has definitely arrived early to our town and for some reason I have been on an almond kick lately. While I know this recipe is not officially considered a "pie", it was what I was craving this weekend. I found this recipe for a <a href="http://www.shugarysweets.com/2011/11/swedish-almond-cake#_a5y_p=2615959">Swedish Almond Cake</a> that looked too good to pass up. I did not have sliced almonds, so I substituted chopping up almonds myself.<br />
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Hope you enjoy as much as we did!<br />
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- 1 cup granulated sugar<br />
- zest from 1 lemon<br />
- 1/2 tsp almond extract<br />
- 1/2 tsp vanilla extract<br />
- 1/4 tsp salt<br />
- 2 eggs<br />
- 1 cup all-purpose flour<br />
- 1/2 cup butter, melted (1 stick)<br />
- 1/8 cup almonds, chopped<br />
- 1 tbsp coarse sugar (or I just used granulated sugar)<br />
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1) In a bowl, combine granulated sugar and the zest from 1 lemon.<br />
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2) Add vanilla and almond extract and salt. Mix until sugar mixture is well blended.<br />
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3) Add in eggs one at a time. Mix until wet ingredients are frothy.<br />
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4) To the wet ingredients, add 1 stick of melted butter and 1 cup flour. Grease an 8 or 9 inch cake pan or springform pan. Add cake batter to the pan. Top with chopped (or sliced) almonds and coarse sugar. <br />
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5) Bake at 350 degrees for 25 minutes. Remove from the oven and let cool for 20 minutes before taking it out of the pan.<br />
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Unfortunately, I forgot to take a picture of the final cake after it was done (yes, it was that good)! We finished almost half it over the weekend before we realized that. So, I leave you with a picture our half eaten almond cake.<br />
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Highly recommended recipe! :) <br />
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<br />Stephanie Hickshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14984127187252119937noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8135734145926022209.post-44570202568557441772016-02-25T15:06:00.001-08:002016-02-25T15:11:28.863-08:00Using Version Control and GitHub in the ClassroomThis semester I'm co-instructing a course called <a href="http://datasciencelabs.github.io/">Introduction to Data Science</a> (BIO 260 and CSCI E-107) with <a href="http://rafalab.dfci.harvard.edu/">Rafael Irizarry</a> at the <a href="http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/">Harvard School of Public Health</a> and <a href="http://www.extension.harvard.edu/academics/courses/introduction-data-science/24596">Harvard Extension School</a>. It is similar to a course that I was the head TA for in Fall 2014 taught at Harvard University called <a href="http://cs109.github.io/2014/">CS 109</a>. We have a <a href="http://datasciencelabs.github.io/">fantastic group of people</a> involved with the course this year, which has made developing a course from scratch run much more smoothly than it could have been.<br />
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We spent <a href="https://github.com/datasciencelabs/2016/blob/master/lectures/git-and-github/version-control.Rmd">one lecture teaching students the importance of version control</a>. Version control is a way of tracking the change history of a project. Even if you have never heard of version control, you have probably already done it manually. For example, if you have ever written a document or paper, you may have tried copying and renaming the file multiple times as it went through different stages ("paper-v1.doc", "paper-v2.doc", "paper-final.doc", "paper_finalFINALdraft.doc", etc.). If at any point you wanted to see an older version of the paper, you could simply open the file. That is a form of version control. It's not very efficient, but it is in fact a form of version control. One improvement over this would be to have a way only keeping one file (e.g. "paper.doc") AND being able to see older versions of it as it changed through time. You can think of these older versions as little snapshots of the paper as it changed through time. The same idea can be applied to code that you write. <br />
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In data science, it's important to know how to keep track of your code as it changes over time. On top of that, when you are writing code in a collaborative setting, it is almost required that that you know something about version control. This is how a group of people can collaboratively contribute code to the same project using the same file. <a href="https://git-scm.com/">Git</a> is a tool that automates and enhances a lot of the tasks that arise when dealing with larger, longer-living, and collaborative projects. It has also become the common underpinning to many popular online code repositories, <a href="https://github.com/">GitHub</a> being the most popular.<br />
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One of the unique aspects of the course is that we are <a href="https://github.com/datasciencelabs/2016/blob/master/lectures/git-and-github/submitting-HW-using-git.Rmd">requiring the students to work on their homework assignments and submit their homework assignments using GitHub</a>. We started by creating the <a href="https://github.com/datasciencelabs-students">GitHub organization datasciencelabs-students</a>. Then, we followed the <a href="https://education.github.com/guide">GitHub Education Classroom guide</a>. To create private repositories for each student for each homework assignment, we followed the <a href="https://education.github.com/guide/sandboxing">sandboxing setup</a>. Sandboxing is the idea of creating duplicated repositories (one for each student) in an automated fashion. The tool that physically creates the private repositories for each student for each homework assignment is called "<a href="http://www.rubydoc.info/gems/teachers_pet">teachers_pet</a>". </div>
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For anyone interested in using teachers_pet in your own classroom, I created <a href="https://github.com/stephaniehicks/classroomNotes/blob/master/teachers_pet-GitHubClassroom.md">a set of notes on GitHub describing how to install and use the tool</a>. Once you have set up all the authentication steps with GitHub, you can clone my <a href="https://github.com/stephaniehicks/teachers_pet">teachers_pet GitHub repository</a>, which is an enhanced version made up of multiple repositories from the web. It is enhanced because it can push files to specific branches in the private repositories AND it can delete repositories at the end of your course so you can re-use the private repositories in the future. </div>
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I hope others find the teachers_pet tutorial useful in using GitHub in the classroom! </div>
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