Machine learning resources for biomedical research
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...
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2021
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...
Supercharge your research with open science meeting 3: Building trust
Motivating questions: What are our values? How do we build trust and facilitate collaboration?
How a Club is Closing the Gender Gap in Coding
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...
Announcing new RNAseq courses from fredhutch.io
Announcement: Pilot testing of these courses has been cancelled. Course materials will remain publicly available, though completion of them will be delaye...
Creating a Chatbot… No Coding Experience Required
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...
Improving Fred Hutch access to cloud for data storage and research computing
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 ...
Programming: The Search & My Experience as a Teen
For the record, I haven’t always loved coding. And it’s still not my favorite, but hear me out:
The Coop Year in Review: 2020
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...
Community highlight: A Q&A with Yusuf Corr on transitioning from biology focused work to software development
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...
2020
Supercharge your research with open science meeting 2: Storing data, methods, and code
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 ...
Girls Who Code at Fred Hutch
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 #scientific-software channel explained!
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...
Supercharge your research with open science meeting 1: Beginning the conversation
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...
Supercharge your research with open science!
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...
Community highlight! Dror Berel’s Blog!
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...
Accurate and affirming messaging in research communications
Recently the Women’s HIV Research Collaborative (WHRC) released a call to action for groups to commit to scientifically accurate and culturally affirming mes...
The Coop guest edits the Hutch United Black Lives Matter Digest
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...
Autumn 2020 updates from the Coop Team
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...
Questions about Diversity to Answer in Every Analysis
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...
Community highlight: Dev Nambi’s blog!
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...
Getting to know the people who use my data: a brief intro to UX research
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...
What is data governance, and how can it help you?
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...
Introducing my first R package from scratch: CoopMetrics
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 ...
Coop community values
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 ...
Coming soon: Values for the Coop Community
Our draft of community values is now available here!
Community Highlight: Ellis Hughes’s TidyX Screencast!
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...
Adaptation and change in the Coop community
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...
Black Lives Matter.
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...
Why learn to code?
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 ...
Keeping research data secure: Common mistakes and how to avoid them
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...
Cancer Survivorship, Collaborations, and the Lessons of a First Time Through
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...
Best practices for asking for coding help
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...
Hosting community meetings in MS Teams
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 ...
Responsible visual analysis amid COVID-19
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...
A new home for the Coop and fredhutch.io
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...
Report from the Python User Group: Python IDEs
Since summer 2018, 245 Fred Hutch employees have taken Introduction to Python through Fredhutch.io. This introductory course introduces participants to Jupyt...
Tips on remote teamwork from the Coop
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...
A quick guide to working from home
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...
A quick overview to using MS Teams for online meetings
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 Instructor Training at Fred Hutch
The Carpentries is a non-profit organization that teaches computing and data skills to researchers worldwide. Through a membership with The Carpentries, Fred...
Overview of Community Groups
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...
Coop Customer Survey
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...
Highlights from rstudio::conf 2020
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...
Get flowing with Nextflow
What is Nextflow?
Submit your application for funding to take an online training course of your choosing!
The Coop is now accepting applications for our online computational training professional development awards! The intention of these awards are to provide Fr...
Making the most of Slack
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...
Welcome to the URSSI
Back in August of last year Kate posted this awesome opportunity with URSSI to the #general channel on Slack…
December 2019 Coop Panel Summary: Reproducibility in data-intensive science
The Coop hosted a panel discussion in reproducibility in data analysis for our monthly meeting on Tuesday, December 3 featuring panel participants Keith Curt...
The Coop in Review: 2019
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...
2019
Sharing knowledge through the Fred Hutch Biomedical Data Science Wiki
Fred Hutch includes a large and diverse community of researchers engaged in data-intensive science. Keeping track of best practices and resources among this ...
Hello World! - Welcome to the Fred Hutch Coop Community blog
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...