Useful Links

Data visualization

• ggplot2 cheatsheet
• Fundamentals of Data Visualization
• A collection of graphs made in R
• A collection of graphs made in Python
• A color scheme generator for making better plots: Generates complimentary colors, lets you vary hue, provides simulations of various types of colorblindness as well as common lightness/hue/saturation changes that can be caused by faulty screens.

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Coding

• The good research coding handbook
• Pro git, an introduction to using git and GitHub for version control
• The tidyverse, a set of packages for data wrangling and data visualization in R
  
• Using the tidyverse for data wrangling in R
• Hands-on tutorial on using dplyr for data wrangling in R
• A mapping of MATLAB functions to numpy functions in Python
• python-ternary, a library for making ternary plots in Python using matplotlib
• High-performance computing using SLURM:
  • Introduction to SLURM and job scripting
  • Creating batch scripts for SLURM
  • SLURM tutorial series by the makers themselves
  • SLURM directives to put into a bash script
  • Using Python on the HPC
• Generally useful fact: You can push your local git repo to two or more remote locations simultaneously. To set this up, we need to run the following locally on the terminal:

Terminal

git remote set-url origin --push --add <a remote>
git remote set-url origin --push --add <another remote>

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Reading, writing, and presentation

• Playlist on academic writing by the Leadership Lab at UChicago
• How to speak by Patrick Winston at MIT
• List of commonly used phrases in academic writing
• Ten simple rules for making good oral presentations
• How to give a theory talk by Shengwu Li