Keys to Success
Introduction Since becoming a postdoc at MD Anderson Cancer Center, I have had more failures than successes. Although the countless failures seemed daunting,...
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2023
2022
Rendering Math from RMarkdown
In some of my posts, I have had trouble rendering math with MathJax. My posts that include math equations were written in R markdown. Then I used knitr to co...
Introduction to R and RStudio
What is R?
K-means from scratch in R
K-means is an unsupervised machine learning clustering algorithm. It can be used to cluster a set of observations based on similarity between the observation...
Conditional Probability with R
In this post, we will explore conditional probability and how it relates to Bayes’ Theorem.
Exploratory Data Analysis in R
In this post, we will be analyzing data as if we were looking at it for the first time. This is called ‘Exploratory Data Analysis’. We will visualize the dat...
2021
Entropy
What is entropy?
Gradient Descents
Gradient Descents
Writing the code for PCA
Principal Component Analysis
Non-negative Matrix Factorization
Non-negative Matrix Factorization
2020
Making a Professional Website
As a student or early-career researcher, you may have seen a trend in professional websites created by your peers. You may have wondered whether or not you, ...
Presentation Tips
Here are some presentation tips that I have used over the years. This post is also for me to put down my thoughts for safekeeping.
Preparing an F31
The Ruth L. Kirschstein Predoctoral Individual National Research Service Award or the F31 is a predoctoral award that provides a stipend and some research a...
Converting Multiple SRA to FASTQ
In this post, I will detail how to download some raw sequence data from GEO/SRA in fastq format.
Trajectory Analysis with Diffusion Pseudotime
The beauty of single-cell RNA-seq is the ability to delineate the cell state of each single-cell. This brings a novel advantage when considering developmenta...
Seurat Guided Clustering Tutorial
While the vignette on the Seurat website already provides good instructions, I will be using this to give additional thoughts and details that could help beg...
Learning R
This is a curated collection of R educational materials for learning R. I will add more as I find them.
Principal Component Analysis
Principal Component Analysis
Single-Cell Notes
I have been working on single-cell data for almost a year now and I will be using this blog to detail what I have learned along with some tips and tricks.
Hello, World!
This is the first post of this blog.