Foundations of Data Science
These lessons will help you get your feet in data science and give you tools to help you slice and dice your data into results.
Material
You can view the tutorial materials in different languages by clicking the dropdown icon next to the slides (slides) and tutorial (tutorial) buttons below.Data Manipulation Olympics
These tutorials take the same dataset, and show you how to slice and dice it in numerous languages
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| Data visualisation Olympics - Visualization in R | |||||
| Data Manipulation Olympics - SQL | |||||
| Data Manipulation Olympics - JQ |
Bash
These lessons focus on using the Command Line Interface (CLI) and Bash for processing data.
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| Advanced CLI in Galaxy | |||||
| CLI Educational Game - Bashcrawl | |||||
| CLI basics |
Python
These lessons focus on coding in Python
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Introduction to Python
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Advanced Python
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Plotting in Python
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Python (Modular)
These lessons cover coding in Python except they attempt to be very modular, having few interdependencies, allowing you to re-arrange or insert them in your existing course curriculum as needed.
R
These lessons focus on coding in R
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| R basics in Galaxy | |||||
| Advanced R in Galaxy | |||||
| dplyr & tidyverse for data processing |
SQL
Here you'll learn to use SQL to query databases and extract meaningful results from them.
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| Advanced SQL | |||||
| Introduction to SQL | |||||
| SQL Educational Game - Murder Mystery | |||||
| SQL with Python | |||||
| SQL with R |
Scientific Workflow Management Systems
Here you can find brief tutorials on a couple different workflow engines that you might encounter in the wild.
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Make & Snakemake
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Introduction to Genomics
A data- and galaxy-driven introduction to genomics
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Other
Assorted Tutorials
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Basics of using Git from the Command Line
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Variant Calling Workflow
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Version Control with Git
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Frequently Asked Questions
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Editorial Board
This material is reviewed by our Editorial Board:
Helena Rasche
Saskia Hiltemann
Fotis E. Psomopoulos
Bérénice Batut
Yvan Le Bras
Contributors
This material was contributed to by:
Helena Rasche
Bazante Sanders
Peter van Heusden
Yongbin Li
Saskia Hiltemann
Toby Hodges
Sofoklis Keisaris
Bérénice Batut
Marius van den Beek
Fotis E. Psomopoulos
Teresa Müller
Anton Nekrutenko
Donny Vrins
Lisanna Paladin
NU Knight Lab
Maria Christina Maniou
Funding
These individuals or organisations provided funding support for the development of this resource
