Author Archives: shifletab

BioQuest / SCALE-IT Workshop: Tools to Go

Posted on January 14, 2012 by shifletab

George and Angela Shiflet will be using various tools in a variety of ways.  We will use data from “Parallel bacterial evolution within multiple patients identifies candidate pathogenicity genes” by Lieberman et. al. in projects for a module on “Markov … Continue reading →

Posted in Final Projects | Comments Off on BioQuest / SCALE-IT Workshop: Tools to Go

Markov Chains & Bioinformatics

Posted on January 13, 2012 by shifletab

George and Angela Shiflet are working on a module on Markov chains.  In particular, we will be exploring their use in bioinformatics.  We anticipate that some of the ideas and resources from Claudia will be useful.

Posted in Uncategorized | Comments Off on Markov Chains & Bioinformatics

Plans for use of Day 1 work

Posted on January 12, 2012 by shifletab

George teaches Public Health.  We plan to investigate uses of Gapminder for that course. Separately, Angela teaches Data and Visualization involving databases and scientific visualization.  She plans to show students Gapminder, have them download data, and reproduce a version of … Continue reading →

Posted in Group Work | Comments Off on Plans for use of Day 1 work

Comparing life expectancy & income between North & South Korea

Posted on January 12, 2012 by shifletab

We compared Life expectancy (years) vs. Income per person for North Korea and South Korea.  The countries started comparably, North Korea a little better, for both countries.  There was a big drop in Income/person after WWII.  In 1975 the 2 … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Comments Off on Comparing life expectancy & income between North & South Korea