Posted by Marianna Foos in Computing
I am probably the wrong person to write this, but I sent more than one email on the topic, so I have to write a blog post. THEM'S THE RULES.
A few days ago I got an email saying "I'm new to R, and I just don't know where to …
Posted by Marianna Foos in Computing
Here are my slides from tonight's Shiny talk at Boston Bioconductor. Get at me on Twitter with feedback!
EDIT: And Here is the repo for the tutorial by @dfjenkins3 that preceeded my talk.
Posted by Marianna Foos in Computing
I was a lifelong Windows user until 2010 when I was impressed by Ubuntu on my Dell Mini 9. Remember netbooks? They were like crappy, expensive, bulky Chromebooks, but they were ahead of their time introducing mainstream users to Ubuntu. When the laptop I bought when I left for college …
Posted by Marianna Foos in Computing
I've had a handful of conversations recently with people learning Shiny who all agree that despite the many available tutorials and examples, sometimes it's hard to figure out how to do what YOU want to do. I think this is exemplified by how long it took me to figure out …
Posted by Marianna Foos in Computing
Once upon a time an awesome lady I met on the internet, who blogs about challenging her own comfort zone, asked me if I might ever want to guest post. From what I can tell, she started a company, redirected her efforts there, and is sort of MIA on the …
Posted by Marianna Foos in Career
Today, while researching this blog post, I learned that there are KINDS of lightning talks. One of them is called "Ignite" so that's the source of the title. As organizer for R-Ladies Boston, I'm recruiting for lightning talks for our next meetup. The folks who don't need to be asked …
Posted by Marianna Foos in Computing
It's been on my list of "haunting tasks" (this is a real list I keep) to "make a Jekyll blog on Github pages". However, my experience with Jekyll was: jargon jargon jargon, gem install. Since I try not to type mysterious things into my terminal, I googled around, and eventually …