Come listen to some amazing Python presentations from our famed mentorship
program that completed this new years. Hear how you can get involved with
the next batch. There will be food, drink, prizes, and lots of Python. All
are welcome. No prior programming experience required.
This is next Wednesday (21st) as we had to re-schedule early this month due
to the End of the World. Now we see the world has not ending, we are save
to come out from under our laptops and have our best meeting ever.
RSVP:
http://www.chipy.org/
and/or
http://www.meetup.com/_ChiPy_/events/219814888/
We also have a new venue:
TEK Systems
<http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=111+N+Canal+St+Ste+105%2C+Chicago%2…>
111 N Canal St Ste 105, Chicago, IL
- *Example app using Flask and pg8000 (Postgres) on Heroku*
(0:07:00 Minutes)
By: Tanya Schlusser
We walk through the architecture, development process, and a few gotchas
of deploying a web application on Heroku using their free Postgresql
instance, and the Python libraries 'flask' and 'pg8000'
- *MM - Japhy/Sebastian - Mining and charting*
(0:07:00 Minutes)
By: Japhy Bartlett
We'll go over how to set up a daemon for mining public data using
tornado, then loading that data into some web based charts.
- *ChiPy Mentorship 7-Minute Retrospective*
(0:07:00 Minutes)
By: Paul Ebreo
Tom Yarrish and Paul Ebreo will talk about their experience of the 12
week mentorship program. They will talk about what went well and what went
not-so well. They will share what they learned and give tips and tricks for
a successful mentor/mentee relationship. Paul is very passionate about
programming, software testing, open hardware and teaching and Tom is a
Digital Forensic Analyst and teaches at Loyola University.
- *Python Data Science 101 - how mentoring helped me get from raw data
to SKLearn by Ben Reid*
(0:07:00 Minutes)
By: Ben Reid
Ben will be talking about his experience getting started with Python
Data Science using pandas and sci-kit learn, with Don's assistance, via the
Chipy mentoring pilot program. Don is an Independent Technology Consultant,
iPhone Developer and Software Architect and currently consulting with
clients using Hadoop. Ben is a Senior Business Development Manager at
Orbitz Worldwide and is a self taught programmer. Don is @dondrake on
Twitter and Ben can be reached at https://www.linkedin.com/in/reidbenj
- *Being A Mentee In The ChiPy Mentorship*
By: Zachary Kerr
Mentors can be incredibly valuable in helping understand software. I
want to share some of the insights I have learned from my mentorship. I
believe there are important lessons to be learned from mentors that can
make programming a much better experience.
- *Python Mentors Lightning Talk – Chris & Rahul*
(0:07:00 Minutes)
By: Chris Foresman
Chris and Rahul would be talking about making RESTful API with Python.
Chris was an Associate Writer at Ars Technica and is currently a Senior
Systems Engineer at Vokal. Rahul is pursuing his MS in Computer Science at
Illinois Institute of Technology. Chris is @foresmac on Twitter and Rahul
can be reached at https://www.linkedin.com/in/rahul013k
--
Brian Ray
@brianray
(773) 669-7717
Overall, those who took the mentorship program surveys gave an average of
9/10 stars. There will be a Starbucks gift card for one of those who were
picked presented during the meeting.
This month's topics are talks from those who participated in this program.
There will be a prize for the best presentation. The line up is below. This
will be a very great meeting. Perhaps... our best ever. Seriously folks,
don't miss this one. RSVP now...
RSVP http://www.chipy.org/
and/or http://www.meetup.com/_ChiPy_/
Thank you very much for Braintree for sponsoring the food at meeting.
Thanks SPACE by Doejo for hosting.
Next Meeting
*When:* Jan. 8, 2015, 7 p.m.
*Where:* SPACE by Doejo
444 N. Wabash, 5th Floor Chicago IL
Talks from Mentorship Program
- *Python Mentors Lightning Talk – Chris & Rahul*
(0:07:00 Minutes)
By: Chris Foresman
Chris and Rahul would be talking about making RESTful API with Python.
Chris was an Associate Writer at Ars Technica and is currently a Senior
Systems Engineer at Vokal. Rahul is pursuing his MS in Computer Science at
Illinois Institute of Technology. Chris is @foresmac on Twitter and Rahul
can be reached at https://www.linkedin.com/in/rahul013k
- *Example app using Flask and pg8000 (Postgres) on Heroku*
(0:07:00 Minutes)
By: Tanya Schlusser
We walk through the architecture, development process, and a few gotchas
of deploying a web application on Heroku using their free Postgresql
instance, and the Python libraries 'flask' and 'pg8000'
- *MM - Japhy/Sebastian - Mining and charting*
(0:07:00 Minutes)
By: Japhy Bartlett
We'll go over how to set up a daemon for mining public data using
tornado, then loading that data into some web based charts.
- *ChiPy Mentorship 7-Minute Retrospective*
(0:07:00 Minutes)
By: Paul Ebreo
Tom Yarrish and Paul Ebreo will talk about their experience of the 12
week mentorship program. They will talk about what went well and what went
not-so well. They will share what they learned and give tips and tricks for
a successful mentor/mentee relationship. Paul is very passionate about
programming, software testing, open hardware and teaching and Tom is a
Digital Forensic Analyst and teaches at Loyola University.
- *Python Data Science 101 - how mentoring helped me get from raw data
to SKLearn by Ben Reid*
(0:07:00 Minutes)
By: Ben Reid
Ben will be talking about his experience getting started with Python
Data Science using pandas and sci-kit learn, with Don's assistance, via the
Chipy mentoring pilot program. Don is an Independent Technology Consultant,
iPhone Developer and Software Architect and currently consulting with
clients using Hadoop. Ben is a Senior Business Development Manager at
Orbitz Worldwide and is a self taught programmer. Don is @dondrake on
Twitter and Ben can be reached at https://www.linkedin.com/in/reidbenj
- *Being A Mentee In The ChiPy Mentorship*
By: Zachary Kerr
Mentors can be incredibly valuable in helping understand software. I
want to share some of the insights I have learned from my mentorship. I
believe there are important lessons to be learned from mentors that can
make programming a much better experience.
--
Brian Ray
@brianray
(773) 669-7717
*Help with finding tutors for Python, Linux, R, Perl, Octave, MATLAB and/or
Cytoscape for yeast microarray analysis, next generation sequencing and
constructing gene interaction networks*
Hi
I am a visually impaired bioinformatics graduate student using microarray
data for my master’s thesis aimed at deciphering the mechanism by which the
yeast wild type can suppress the rise of free reactive oxygen species (ROS)
induced by caloric restriction (CR) but the Atg15 and Erg6 knockout mutant
cannot.
Since my remaining vision is very limited I need very high magnification.
But that makes my visual field very small. Therefore I need somebody to
teach me how to use these programming environments, especially for
microarray analysis, next generation sequencing and constructing gene and
pathway interaction networks. This is very difficult for me to figure out
without assistance because Zoomtext, my magnification and text to speech
software, on which I am depending because I am almost blind, has problems
reading out aloud many programming related websites to me. And even those
websites it can read, it can only read sequentially from left to right and
then from top to bottom. Unfortunately, this way of acquiring, finding,
selecting and processing new information and answering questions is too
tiresome, exhausting, ineffective and especially way too time consuming for
graduating with a PhD in bioinformatics before my funding runs out despite
being severely limited by my visual disability. I would also need help
with writing a good literature review and applying the described techniques
to my own yeast Affimetrix microarray dataset because I cannot see well
enough to find all relevant publications on my own.
Some examples for specific tasks I urgently need help with are:
1. Analyzing and comparing the three publically available microarray
datasets that can be accessed at:
A. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/geo/query/acc.cgi?acc=GSE41860
B. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/geo/query/acc.cgi?acc=GSE38635
C. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/geo/query/acc.cgi?acc=GSE9217
2. Learning how to use the Affymetrics microarray analysis software for
the Yeast 2 chip, which can be found at
http://www.affymetrix.com/support/technical/libraryfilesmain.affx
3. For Cytoscape I need somebody, who can teach me how to execute the
tutorials at the following links because due to my very limited vision
field I cannot see tutorial and program interface simultaneously.
A.
http://opentutorials.cgl.ucsf.edu/index.php/Tutorial:Introduction_to_Cytosc…
B.
http://opentutorials.cgl.ucsf.edu/index.php/Tutorial:Filtering_and_Editing_…
C.
http://cytoscape.org/manual/Cytoscape2_8Manual.html#Import%20Fixed-Format%2…
D. http://wiki.cytoscape.org/Cytoscape_User_Manual/Network_Formats
4. Learning how to use the TopGo R package to perform statistical
analysis on GO enrichments.
Since I am legally blind the rehab agency is giving me money to pay tutors
for this purpose. Could you please help me getting in touch regarding this
with anybody, who could potentially be interested in teaching me one on one
thus saving me time for acquiring new information and skills, which I need
to finish my thesis on time, so that I can remain eligible for funding to
continue in my bioinformatics PhD program despite being almost blind? The
tutoring can be done remotely via TeamViewer 5 and Skype. Hence, it does
not matter where my tutors are physically located. Currently I have tutors
in Croatia and UK. But since they both work full time jobs while working
on their PhD dissertation they only have very limited time to teach me
online. Could you therefore please forward this request for help to
anybody, who could potentially be interested or, who could connect me to
somebody, who might be, because my graduation and career depend on it? Who
else would you recommend me to contact regarding this? Where else could I
post this because I am in urgent need for help?
Could you please contact me directly via email at Thomas.F.Hahn2(a)gmail.com
and/or Skype at tfh002 because my text to speech software has problems to
read out this website aloud to me?
I thank you very much in advance for your thoughts, ideas, suggestions,
recommendations, time, help, efforts and support.
With very warm regards,
*Thomas Hahn*
1) *Graduate student in the Joint Bioinformatics Program at the
University of Arkansas at Little Rock (UALR) and the University of Arkansas
Medical Sciences (UAMS) &*
2) *Research & Industry Advocate, Founder and Board Member of RADISH
MEDICAL SOLUTIONS, INC. (**http://www.radishmedical.com/thomas-hahn/*
<http://www.radishmedical.com/thomas-hahn/>*) *
*Primary email: **Thomas.F.Hahn2(a)gmail.com* <Thomas.F.Hahn2(a)gmail.com>
*Cell phone: 318 243 3940*
*Office phone: 501 682 1440*
*Office location: EIT 535*
*Skype ID: tfh002*
*Virtual Google Voice phone to reach me while logged into my email (i.e. *
*Thomas.F.Hahn2(a)gmail.com* <Thomas.F.Hahn2(a)gmail.com>*), even when having
no cell phone reception, e.g. in big massive buildings: *(501) 301-4890
<%28501%29%20301-4890>
*Web links: *
1) https://ualr.academia.edu/ThomasHahn
2) https://www.linkedin.com/pub/thomas-hahn/42/b29/42
3) http://facebook.com/Thomas.F.Hahn
<https://www.facebook.com/Thomas.F.Hahn>
4) https://twitter.com/Thomas_F_Hahn
