DataPhiles

DataPhiles is a community for those who love data. Email Dr. King to request to be added to the mailing list: kingeg@missouri.edu

General Format

DataPhiles is an opportunity to discuss practical issues surrounding analyzing data in an informal, low pressure forum. Each week, a volunteer will bring a data set, give a short presentation (8-12 minutes) outlining the basic biology/natural history of their system, giving a general description of their questions (why/what they want out of the data), perhaps presenting a few preliminary and/or graphical results on the data (graphical presentations of the data are strongly encouraged), and a description of the statistical techniques they've used or are thinking of using, or particular problems they're having with the analysis. The floor is then open for general question & answer/discussion. Email a one- or two-sentence blurb about your topic to volunteer to present: kingeg@missouri.edu

The last DataPhiles of each month will be an open Q & A format where anyone can bring any questions they have about data analysis.

MU R Users Slack Group

If you are interested in DataPhiles, then consider joining MU R Users slack group. We hope this will be a place where people can ask questions and help each other out. We are trying to build a self-sustaining community of R people across disciplines. Join the Slack group here or email for more information: kingeg@missouri.edu.

Schedule

DataPhiles is on an “on demand” schedule with meetings scheduled whenever someone requests one.

October 2024

• October 23: QMLS2 Data Visualization Final Projects
• October 16: No DataPhiles
• October 9: No DataPhiles
• October 2: Open Q & A

September 2024

• September 25: Srikant Venkitachalam
• September 18: QMLS2 Data Visualization Final Projects
• September 11: Johana Goyes Vallejos
• September 4: Open Q & A

May 2024

• May 8: Hosting Mizzou Modeling Group: Discussion of Chapter 6 of Ecological Modes and Data in R Here is the link to book website
• May 1: Christian Perez

April 2024

• April 17: Srikant Venkitachalam
• April 10: Hosting Mizzou Modeling Group: Discussion of Chapter 5 of Ecological Modes and Data in R Here is the link to book website
  • Gamma distribution: qmd, HTML
• April 3: Open Q & A

March 2024

• March 27: No DataPhiles (spring break)
• March 20: Data Viz Projects
• March 13: Hosting Mizzou Modeling Group: Discussion of Chapter 4 of Ecological Modes and Data in R Here is the link to book website
• March 6: Open Q & A

February 2024

• February 28: Data Viz Projects: Chris, Nadine, Mara
• February 21: Data Viz Projects: Melissa, Jaylon
• February 14: Open Q & A
• February 7: Open Q & A

January 2024

• January 31: Carmen Martin

Winter Hiatus

December 2023

• December 6: Open Q & A

November 2023

• November 29: No DataPhiles
• November 22: No DataPhiles
• November 15: No DataPhiles
• November 8: No DataPhiles
• November 1: Open Q & A

October 2023

• October 25: No DataPhiles
• October 18: Open Q & A
• October 11: Ellen Mazalale
• October 4: Double Feature: Esdras Tuyishimire and Zaynab Shakkour

September 2023

• September 27: No DataPhiles
• September 20: Patricka Williams-Simon
• September 13: No DataPhiles
• September 6: Open Q & A

May 2023

• May 10: Joe Gunn

April 2023

• April 19: Open Experiment/Analysis Planning Session
• April 12: No DataPhiles
• April 5: Open Q & A

March 2023

• March 22: No DataPhiles
• March 15: Zohreh Kouhanestani
• March 8: Daniel Kick
• March 1: Open Q & A

February 2023

• February 22: Data Visualization Class Projects
• February 15: No DataPhiles
• February 8: Victoria Hamlin
• February 1: Open Q & A

January 2023

• January 25: Peyton Warren

December 2022

• December 7: Jacob Kelly

November 2022

• November 30: No DataPhiles
• November 23: No DataPhiles - Thanksgiving Week
• November 16: Open Q & A
• November 9: No DataPhiles
• November 2: No DataPhiles

October 2022

• October 26: Open Q & A
• October 19: Joe Gunn
• October 12: Ed Merkle
• October 5: Kevin Middleton

September 2022

• September 28: Open Q & A (Drs. King & Middleton will be away)
• September 21: Open Q & A (Drs. King & Middleton will be away)
• September 14: Libby King
• September 7: Johana Goyes Vallejos

Summer Hiatus (May - August 2022)

DataPhiles is on demand - simply request a meeting and we'll schedule one!

April 2022

• April 30: Open Q & A
• April 23: Open Q & A
• April 16: No DataPhiles
• April 8: No DataPhiles

March 2022

• March 25: Open Q & A
• March 18: Discussion of “Rewriting results sections in the language of evidence”
• March 11: Johana Goyes Vallejos
• March 4: No DataPhiles

February 2022

• February 25: Open Q & A
• February 18: Victoria Hamlin
• February 11: Zack Miller
• February 4: Kevin Middleton

January 2022

• January 28: Open Q & A
• January 21: Levi Storks

Winter Hiatus

DataPhiles is on demand - simply request a meeting and we'll schedule one!

December 2021

• December 10: Shawn Thomas
• December 3: No DataPhiles

November 2021

• November 26: No DataPhiles (Native American Heritage Day)
• November 19: Kyle Stiers
• November 12: Open Q & A
• November 5: Brittany Harried

October 2021

• October 29: Christian Perez
• October 22: Joe Gunn
• October 15: Kate Wynne
• October 8: No DataPhiles
• October 1: Open Q & A

September 2021

• September 24: Open Q & A
• September 17: No DataPhiles
• September 10: Open Q & A
• September 3: Libby King

August 2021

• August 27: Open Q & A

Summer Hiatus (May - August 2021)

DataPhiles is on demand - simply request a meeting and we'll schedule one!

April 2021

• April 16: Open Q & A
• April 9: Open Q & A
• April 2: No DataPhiles (MU Spring Break)

March 2021

• March 26: Open Q & A
• March 19: Open Q & A
• March 12: Levi Storks
• March 5: Open Q & A

February 2021

• February 26: Kevin Middleton, Making R Packages
  • Video
  • Step by step
• February 19: Open Q & A
• February 12: Open Q & A
• February 5: Open Q & A

January 2021

• January 29: No DataPhiles
• January 22: Open Q & A

Winter Break Hiatus

November 2020

• November 27: No DataPhiles (Thanksgiving Holiday)
• November 20: Joe Gunn
• November 13: Open Q & A
• November 6: No DataPhiles

October 2020

• October 30: Michael Moore
• October 23: Open Q & A
• October 16: Patricka Williams-Simon
• October 9: Gaurav Kandlikar
• October 2: Open Q & A

September 2020

• September 25: Shawn Abrahams
• September 18: Open Q & A
• September 11: No DataPhiles
• September 4: Open Q & A

August 2020

• August 28: Enoch Ng'oma and Andrew Jones

Summer Hiatus

June 2020

• June 26: Libby King
• June 19: No Dataphiles (Juneteenth holiday)
• June 12: Git and Github Workshop (continued)
• June 5: Git and Github Workshop

May 2020

• May 29: Enoch Ng'oma & Libby King
• May 22: Hurricane effects on Neotropical lizards span geographic and phylogenetic scales
• May 15: No DataPhiles
• May 8: Open Q&A
• May 1: Lauren Sullivan

April 2020

• April 24: Christian Perez
• April 17: 2 Papers: Ten Simple Rules for Reproducible Computational Research and A Quick Guide to Organizing Computational Biology Projects
• April 10: Open Q & A
• April 3: Mixed Models Offer No Freedom from Degrees of Freedom

March 2020

• March 6: Shawn Abrahams and Jacob Bouchier

February 2020

• February 28: Group working session
• February 21: Tom Anderson
• February 14: Garrett Frandson
• February 7: Emily Kinzinger

January 2020

• January 31: No DataPhiles - Life Sciences Graduate Recruitment Events
• January 24: Canceled due to snow.

Winter Hiatus

December 2019

• December 6: Jeff Wood

November 2019

• November 29: No DataPhiles (Thanksgiving week)
• November 22: Zeke Elkins
• November 15: Aditi Mishra
• November 8: Laura Johnson
• November 1: Johana Goyes

October 2019

• October 25: Makenzie Mabry
• October 18: Anna Hardin
• October 11: Mel Boeyer
• October 4: Austin Lawrence

September 2019

• September 27: Anna Perinchery
• September 20: Kris Budd
• September 13: Deise Cruz
• September 6: Kevin Middleton

August 2019

• August 30: No DataPhiles - go to DataBlitz instead!
• August 23: Joe Gunn

Summer Hiatus

May 2019

• May 9: Rex Cocroft
• May 2: Andrew Jones

April 2019

• April 25: Kevin Middleton
• April 18: No DataPhiles (Life Sciences Week) - Go to some posters and discuss data!
• April 11: Libby King
• April 4: Paul Petrowski

March 2019

• March 28: No DataPhiles (Spring Break)
• March 21: Patricka Williams-Simon
• March 14: Daniel Kick (Rescheduling from Feb 7 Ice Storm Cancellation)
• March 7: Vivek Shrestha

February 2019

• February 28: Joe Gunn
• February 21: Arianne Messerman
• February 14: Austin Lynn
• February 7: Cancelled due to Ice Storm

January 2019

• January 31: Lauren Sullivan
• January 24: Enoch Ng’oma

December 2018

• December 14: Dunn et al. 2018 Pairwise comparisons across species are problematic when analyzing functional genomic data
• December 7: Fay et al. 2018 A polyploid admixed origin of beer yeasts derived from European and Asian wine populations

November 2018

• November 30: Gerard et al. 2018 Genotyping Polyploids from Messy Sequencing Data
• November 23: NO DATAPHILES (Thanksgiving week): Bonus Turkey Paper
• November 16: NO DATAPHILES (conflict with DBS happy hour)
• November 9: Ilska et al. 2018 Genetic Characterization of Dog Personality Traits
• November 2: Martincorena et al. 2018 Somatic mutant clones colonize the human esophagus with age

October 2018

• October 26: Bernstein et al. 2018 Tightly-linked antagonistic-effect loci underlie polygenic demographic variation in C. elegans
• October 19: Slon et al. 2018 The genome of the offspring of a Neanderthal mother and a Denisovan father
• October 12: Zan et al. 2018 On the Relationship Between High-Order Linkage Disequilibrium and Epistasis
• October 5: Castel et al. 2018 Modified penetrance of coding variants by cis-regulatory variation contributes to disease risk

September 2018

• September 28: Setter et al. 2018 Genetic architecture and selective sweeps after polygenic adaptation to distant trait optima
• September 21: Timpson et al. 2017 Genetic architecture: the shape of the genetic contribution to human traits and disease
• September 14: Technow et al. 2015 Integrating Crop Growth Models with Whole Genome Prediction through Approximate Bayesian Computation
• September 7: NO DATAPHILES - Go to Data Blitz! Location: Lefevre 112

August 2018

• August 31: Cheng et al. 2018 Novel Resampling Improves Statistical Power for Multiple-Trait QTL Mapping
• August 24: Simon et al. 2018 Coadapted genomes and selection on hybrids: Fisher's geometric model explains a variety of empirical patterns
• August 17: Rosen et al. 2018 Geometry of the Sample Frequency Spectrum and the Perils of Demographic Inference
• August 10: End of Summer Hiatus: Analyze some data instead!
• August 3: End of Summer Hiatus: Analyze some data instead!

July 2018

• July 27: Kruschke 2018 Rejecting or accepting parameter values in Bayesian estimation
• July 20: Norouzzadeh et al. 2018 Automatically identifying, counting, and describing wild animals in camera-trap images with deep learning
• July 13: Berg et al. 2018 Reduced signal for polygenic adaptation of height in UK Biobank
  • Also see: Sohail et al. 2018 Signals of polygenic adaptation on height have been overestimated due to uncorrected population structure in genome-wide association studies
• July 6: Miller et al. 2014 Modular Skeletal Evolution in Sticklebacks Is Controlled by Additive and Clustered Quantitative Trait Loci
  • Optional additional reading: Hart et al. 2018 Convergent evolution of gene expression in two high-toothed stickleback populations & Cleves et al. 2018 An intronic enhancer of Bmp6 underlies evolved tooth gain in sticklebacks

June 2018

• June 29: Kern and Hahn 2018 The Neutral Theory in Light of Natural Selection
• June 22: Fountain et al. 2017 Inferring dispersal across a fragmented landscape using reconstructed families in the Glanville fritillary butterfly
• June 15: Peter et al. 2017 Genetic landscapes reveal how human genetic diversity aligns with geography
• June 8: 2 great papers this week:
  • Boyle et al. 2017 An Expanded View of Complex Traits: From Polygenic to Omnigenic
  • Rockman 2012 The QTN program and the alleles that matter for evolution: all that's gold does not glitter
• June 1: No DataPhiles - IPG symposium conflict Start reading for June 8th!

May 2018

• May 25: Xue et al. 2017 Parallel evolution of influenza across multiple spatiotemporal scales
• May 18: PEQG Debriefing (No paper to read this week)
• May 11: No DataPhiles (get ready for PEQG!)
• May 4: Lemoine et al. 2018 Renewing Felsenstein’s phylogenetic bootstrap in the era of big data
  • Original phylogenetic bootstrap paper: Confidence Limits on Phylogenies: An Approach Using the Bootstrap

April 2018

• April 27: Koren et al. 2018 Complete assembly of parental haplotypes with trio binning
• April 20: O'Reilly et al. 2012 MultiPhen: Joint Model of Multiple Phenotypes Can Increase Discovery in GWAS
  • Bonus extra paper for Bayesians: Stephens 2013 A Unified Framework for Association Analysis with Multiple Related Phenotypes
• April 13 Palamara et al. 2018 High-throughput inference of pairwise coalescence times identifies signals of selection and enriched disease heritability
• April 6 Behrman et al. 2018 Natural variation in couch potato mediates rapid evolution of learning and reproduction in natural populations of Drosophila melanogaster

March 2018

• March 31: No DataPhiles (work on analyzing data!)
• March 23: Lasisi and Shriver 2017 Focus on African diversity confirms complexity of skin pigmentation genetics
• March 16: Lee and Coop 2017 Distinguishing Among Modes of Convergent Adaptation Using Population Genomic Data
• March 8: #TBT! Gould and Lewontin 1979 The Spandrels of San Marco and the Panglossian Paradigm: A Critique of the Adaptationist Programme
• March 1: Collins and Didelot 2018 A phylogenetic method to perform genome-wide association studies in microbes that accounts for population structure and recombination