Antibody Performance R Shiny Application
My bread and butter technique as a neuroscientist is immunohistochemistry - using fluorescently conjugated antibodies to visualize protein localization in a fixed brain section. I’ve carved a niche for myself as the antibody whisperer.
Rigor & Reproducibility in Light Microscopy
In the fall I give a lecture to incoming neuroscience graduate students on how to perform light microscopy in a rigorous and reproducible manner. I wanted to share that presentation here for accessibility.
Pizza Week 2024: Web Scraping, GIS Data, and Cluster Analysis
It’s been a while since I first learned how to scrape websites and boy have I learned a lot since then. So as you may or may not be aware, I primarily use web scraping to get the most out of Portland’s food weeks.
Neurohackademy 2023: Calculating an Author's O-Index
Neurohackademy is an annual two-week long course offered at University of Washington in Seattle. The course covers some coding basics (python) and applications to neuroimaging. I attended the course in 2023 hoping to get some more neuroscience-centered coding experinece.
Heart Beats on Our Wedding Day
I love data, so I wanted to somehow plot my wedding day. My now-husband wore his Fitbit on his wrist and I wore mine on my ankle (you can see it in the picture below).
Reviewer Randomizer Shiny App
Last month I wrote a simple python script to help my graduate program to randomly assign reviewers to applicants during application season. Since writing that script I have (1) updated the script to make sure each applicant has at most one trainee reviewer and make sure that the division of labor is distributed equally and (2) built a python shiny app that I’ve deployed on shinyapps.
Application Season: Randomly Assigning Reviewers
My PI recently proposed a little side project for me: could I use my recently refreshed python skills to write a little code that would take in a list of applicants and a list of reviewers and randomly assign 3 reviewers to each applicant?
Introduction Into Web Scraping with Portland Burger Week
I take the Portland food weeks very seriously. My partner and I make a list of our must-trys and then I make out plan of attack. We usually hit up 2-3 places a night until we’ve exhausted all the places that we wanted to try.
Sick With Mono
The Data: Heart Rate and Temperature Measurements While Sick Somehow I managed to get mono during a global pandemic at the age of 28. While I was sick I kept track of my temperature just using an oral thermometer, noting the time and temperature.
Where's Waldo?
The Data: Where’s Waldo? This data was found on Data Is Plural, originally posted January 2017.
From Data Is Plural:
In 2015, computer scientist Randy Olson tried computing “the optimal search strategy for finding Waldo” in the seven original Where’s Waldo?
