Retiring the Coop and transitioning to Hutch Data Core Training
As announced in our last community update, we have joined Shared Resources as a part of the newly formed Hutch Data Core. We are currently in the process of...
As announced in our last community update, we have joined Shared Resources as a part of the newly formed Hutch Data Core. We are currently in the process of...
Motivating questions: What are our values? How do we build trust and facilitate collaboration?
In a group of people, women are 75% less likely to speak up than a male group member. Because chances are their ideas will get rejected or gaslit by their ma...
Announcement: Pilot testing of these courses has been cancelled. Course materials will remain publicly available, though completion of them will be delaye...
Throughout the past year, current generation witnessed a large portion of our lives turn digital with the spread of Covid-19. School days turned into zoom sc...
For the record, I haven’t always loved coding. And it’s still not my favorite, but hear me out:
A lot has changed at the Coop since our first Year in Review post last January. As noted in our Autumn 2020 summary, we’re trying to provide quarterly update...
This week the Coop Blog is excited to highlight Yusuf Corr, a previous Fred Hutch intern. We are often asked at the Coop how to go about learning to code out...
Did you know that the percentage of women in computing has dropped from 37% to only 24% since 1995? Girls Who Code is an organization that is working to clos...
The Coop Communities Slack is the main way in which the Coop and Scientific Computing communicate with the research community in real time. Each channel in S...
This week the Coop Blog is excited to highlight Dror Berel and his blog! Dror worked at Fred Hutch from 2016 through 2019 as a statistician. Dror’s an exper...
Recently the Women’s HIV Research Collaborative (WHRC) released a call to action for groups to commit to scientifically accurate and culturally affirming mes...
Over the summer Hutch United began putting together a weekly digest. The focus of the digest is to uplift Black voices and support the Black lives matter mov...
The Coop is a community-centered organization, and the Coop Team feels strongly about sharing our progress and plans with out most important stakeholders: r...
Data is a powerful tool to initiate change and bring accountability. This was a resounding takeaway from two recent diversity events, the Women in Tech Regat...
This week the Coop is excited to highlight Dev Nambi and his blog, DevNambi.com! Dev is currently a principal data scientist working on building cloud infras...
Earlier this summer, I was invited to join a project led by Center IT assessing the current status of data governance at Fred Hutch. As a part of my work as...
We are pleased to release this draft of the Coop community values, which support our mission of training and building community to accelerate data-intensive ...
Our draft of community values is now available here!
As we’ve been reassessing our work here at the Coop, we have found that there is a need to facilitate more interaction between the people that make up our co...
It’s been quiet lately here at the Coop blog. Between our transition process last spring, continuing to work remotely, and continued discussions around socia...
In the past week we have seen protests break out here in Seattle, and across the country in response to the killing of George Floyd, a Black man who was kill...
One of the most common questions we receive at The Coop is whether someone in our community should learn to code. Chances are good that you’ve heard someone ...
Landing squarely at the feet of the Hutch Integrated Data and Archives (HIDRA) project, I soon understood the textured value of data. Data generation, captu...
Since beginning work at Fred Hutch, I’ve had a series of distinct experiences that seem to follow a common pattern. You might find it familiar: Someone learn...
As some of us find ourselves with extra time on our hands in the COVID-19 era, many at Fred Hutch are looking to sharpen their programming skills. Luckily, w...
Last month, we highlighted a few tips and tricks for holding meetings remotely through MS Teams. As we settle into more time working from home, we’d like to ...
For the last handful of years, Hutch Data Commonwealth (HDC) has supported data-intensive science for researchers at Fred Hutch. As a part of those activitie...
Since summer 2018, 245 Fred Hutch employees have taken Introduction to Python through Fredhutch.io. This introductory course introduces participants to Jupyt...
The Coop is community-focused; we run events, host office hours, teach courses through fredhutch.io, and connect with researchers to help them with their dat...
As we all know by now, in an effort to reduce the number of personnel on campus Fred Hutch has required that all employees who are able begin working from ho...
As our community prepares for remote work as much as possible over the next few weeks, the Coop has been exploring options to for communication and collabora...
The Carpentries is a non-profit organization that teaches computing and data skills to researchers worldwide. Through a membership with The Carpentries, Fred...
To help stimulate interest in bioinformatics and data science while also encouraging learning and growth we here at the Coop have started a newsletter, manag...
Fred Hutch is currently evaluating its approach to supporting data-intensive research (often called data science). As part of this work, we ran a “customer s...
I was pleased to represent Fred Hutch in late January at rstudio::conf2020 in San Francisco. In addition to having used RStudio as my interface for R statist...
What is Nextflow?
The Coop is now accepting applications for our online computational training professional development awards! The intention of these awards are to provide Fr...
In our previous post, we provided a basic introduction to Slack as a communication mechanism and oriented you to Fred Hutch’s Coop Communities Slack workspac...
The Coop hosted a panel discussion in reproducibility in data analysis for our monthly meeting on Tuesday, December 3 featuring panel participants Keith Curt...
In July of 2018, I found myself at a Mexican restaurant in South Lake Union, sitting across the booth from a friend-of-a-friend and future colleague, Kate He...
Fred Hutch includes a large and diverse community of researchers engaged in data-intensive science. Keeping track of best practices and resources among this ...
Are you a Fred Hutch employee actively involved in data-intensive research? Are you interested in learning more about this type of research? Well, you’ve com...
Last spring, we reported on a collaborative project between our team and University of Washington’s Master of Science in Data Science (MSDS) program in which...
Motivating questions: What are our values? How do we build trust and facilitate collaboration?
Announcement: Pilot testing of these courses has been cancelled. Course materials will remain publicly available, though completion of them will be delaye...
Throughout the past year, current generation witnessed a large portion of our lives turn digital with the spread of Covid-19. School days turned into zoom sc...
Over the last few months, I’ve had the pleasure of working with members of Fred Hutch’s Scientific Computing team on improving the infrastructure associated ...
This week the Coop Blog is excited to highlight Yusuf Corr, a previous Fred Hutch intern. We are often asked at the Coop how to go about learning to code out...
Welcome to the second post in a ten-post series inspired by this Nature article on how to transition a lab to better facilitate open science! This series is ...
Did you know that the percentage of women in computing has dropped from 37% to only 24% since 1995? Girls Who Code is an organization that is working to clos...
The Coop Communities Slack is the main way in which the Coop and Scientific Computing communicate with the research community in real time. Each channel in S...
The Coop is pleased to publish our first post in a ten-post series inspired by this Nature article on how to transition a lab to better facilitate open scien...
The Coop team is excited to announce an upcoming series of posts that highlight ways that research labs can improve data management, analysis, and collaborat...
This week the Coop is excited to highlight Dev Nambi and his blog, DevNambi.com! Dev is currently a principal data scientist working on building cloud infras...
About a year and a half ago, shortly after I started working at Fred Hutch, I took on redesigning part of the user interface on the website I work on: Immune...
A few months ago, Kate mentioned to me that she would like for us to start collecting various metrics from Google Analytics and GitHub to track the progress ...
As we’ve been reassessing our work here at the Coop, we have found that there is a need to facilitate more interaction between the people that make up our co...
Landing squarely at the feet of the Hutch Integrated Data and Archives (HIDRA) project, I soon understood the textured value of data. Data generation, captu...
Since summer 2018, 245 Fred Hutch employees have taken Introduction to Python through Fredhutch.io. This introductory course introduces participants to Jupyt...
Fred Hutch is currently evaluating its approach to supporting data-intensive research (often called data science). As part of this work, we ran a “customer s...
I was pleased to represent Fred Hutch in late January at rstudio::conf2020 in San Francisco. In addition to having used RStudio as my interface for R statist...
What is Nextflow?
Back in August of last year Kate posted this awesome opportunity with URSSI to the #general channel on Slack…
The Coop hosted a panel discussion in reproducibility in data analysis for our monthly meeting on Tuesday, December 3 featuring panel participants Keith Curt...
Motivating questions: What are our values? How do we build trust and facilitate collaboration?
In a group of people, women are 75% less likely to speak up than a male group member. Because chances are their ideas will get rejected or gaslit by their ma...
For the record, I haven’t always loved coding. And it’s still not my favorite, but hear me out:
Welcome to the second post in a ten-post series inspired by this Nature article on how to transition a lab to better facilitate open science! This series is ...
The Coop is pleased to publish our first post in a ten-post series inspired by this Nature article on how to transition a lab to better facilitate open scien...
The Coop team is excited to announce an upcoming series of posts that highlight ways that research labs can improve data management, analysis, and collaborat...
This week the Coop Blog is excited to highlight Dror Berel and his blog! Dror worked at Fred Hutch from 2016 through 2019 as a statistician. Dror’s an exper...
Recently the Women’s HIV Research Collaborative (WHRC) released a call to action for groups to commit to scientifically accurate and culturally affirming mes...
Over the summer Hutch United began putting together a weekly digest. The focus of the digest is to uplift Black voices and support the Black lives matter mov...
Data is a powerful tool to initiate change and bring accountability. This was a resounding takeaway from two recent diversity events, the Women in Tech Regat...
Since beginning work at Fred Hutch, I’ve had a series of distinct experiences that seem to follow a common pattern. You might find it familiar: Someone learn...
In wanting to understand this emerging disease better, I have dug into a myriad of coronavirus data sets over the past few weeks. This includes the daily ref...
Fred Hutch is currently evaluating its approach to supporting data-intensive research (often called data science). As part of this work, we ran a “customer s...