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Derek Sollberger

@dsollberger

data science lecturer, data analyst, cartographer, budding sabremetrician http://dsollberger.com

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watching Resident Evil Requiem and am reminded of codon translations

28.02.2026 21:30 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Grant Witness – The Median Data Scientist

R code and more results: dsollbergerquarto.netlify.app/posts/grant_...

17.01.2026 04:07 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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dove into the data about last year's terminated research grants (as recorded at Grant Witness). This is going to be the opening lecture for my data science course.

17.01.2026 04:06 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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TIL for us Windows users, Windows key + Print Screen will take a screenshot AND save the screenshot as a file

05.01.2026 21:55 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
"This stream gave me life": Fans are praising underrated Twitch streamer ijustlovepuzzles after winning "hidden gem" award

"This stream gave me life": Fans are praising underrated Twitch streamer ijustlovepuzzles after winning "hidden gem" award

β€œThis stream gave me life”: Fans are praising underrated Twitch streamer ijustlovepuzzles after winning β€œhidden gem” award bit.ly/4rP7K9o

08.12.2025 17:00 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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"The devil is in the details"

05.12.2025 19:01 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Late to the party, but I---a Windows user---finally got Python virtual environments to work!

29.11.2025 04:22 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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remembering the time that I showed to a math class the music video for "Patterns" by Weird Al (to try to get the students out of the "memorize formulas" mindset)

Those college sophomores really didn't like that, haha

20.11.2025 03:16 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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updating some PyTorch code from 2020 to 2025

26.10.2025 22:06 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I just failed Walmart's "Are you human?" test

18.10.2025 18:31 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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12.10.2025 02:13 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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remade a network diagram in Typst (with the Fletcher package)

If anyone wants to see a demo/walkthrough of Typst, I will be running a casual seminar with the DSLC (Data Science Learning Community) this Saturday at 1 PM EDT!

10.09.2025 01:55 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Today's joy is finding some rvest code that I wrote over two years ago (and get to reuse!)

05.09.2025 03:25 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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I updated the syllabus for my Machine Learning course, and I made it---diagrams included---with the Typst Universe!
Blog post (Typst code and design decisions): dsollbergerquarto.netlify.app/posts/typst_...

30.08.2025 01:44 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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made a new logo for one of my courses
#hexsession #user2025

20.08.2025 02:52 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
RNA-Seq Exploratory Data Analysis – The Median Data Scientist

link: dsollbergerquarto.netlify.app/posts/rna_se...

18.08.2025 00:08 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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finished taking an online course in bioinformatics techniques for RNA-Seq. To wrap up, I tried out the tools on a different data set, and then presented the results as a Quarto closeread story!
blog post (then scroll down): dsollbergerquarto.netlify.app/.../rna_seq_...

17.08.2025 23:46 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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11.08.2025 12:42 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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is happy to be at #useR2025. So far, I ran into 3 colleagues from various ventures, and learned

* how to underline text in Quarto markdown

* that a `countdown` can end with a sound effect

(in addition to a couple of great workshops about tidyomics and srvyr)

09.08.2025 01:11 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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I was awed by many talks at #JSM2025, but I was stunned by the Jenga tower

07.08.2025 02:00 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
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This is my first time at #JSM2025. I will probably learn something Bayesian, but right now I have a uniform prior

03.08.2025 17:23 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Over in Week 2 of our online RNA-Seq course, we learned about normalizing read counts through VST (variance stabilizing transformation). To help me verify the concept for myself, I made a ridgeplot of 10 randomly selected genes in the lung cancer data.

26.07.2025 21:05 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Yeah, we quickly learn who didn't attend the accessibility seminar.

20.07.2025 02:00 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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SAG-AFTRA approves 2025 Video Game Agreement, officially concluding its strike Members of US actors' union SAG-AFTRA have approved the 2025 Video Game Agreement, officially concluding the strike.

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11.07.2025 23:17 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

found my university's list-serves, which were en vogue about 12 years ago. They are quite a time capsule.

07.07.2025 17:24 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
map of the United states titled "United States of Science 2025" with the skype a scientist logo and 2000 tiny empty circles spread out across the USA. States with low population numbers have fewer than where there are more people.

map of the United states titled "United States of Science 2025" with the skype a scientist logo and 2000 tiny empty circles spread out across the USA. States with low population numbers have fewer than where there are more people.

It’s that time again! Time for our 7th annual United States of Science Challenge!

Each bubble on this map represents classrooms we matched w/scientists this year.

$10 donations fill bubbles!

The first region to fill in all of their bubbles wins!

Fill bubbles here! givebutter.com/USS2025

30.06.2025 14:28 πŸ‘ 16 πŸ” 7 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 3
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Lies of P devs get bonus, paid holiday and Switch 2 consoles for hitting sales milestone | VGC The game and its Overture DLC have sold 3 million copies combined…

"Lies of P devs get bonus, paid holiday and Switch 2 consoles for hitting sales milestone"

www.videogameschronicle.com/news/lies-of...

22.06.2025 23:41 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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On a whim, I took some of the room icons from the video game Blue Prince and rearranged them to emulate the classic board game Clue

13.06.2025 19:41 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Outer Worlds 2 will have a "math crazed scientist"

08.06.2025 18:30 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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This nerdy trilogy is complete!

wonderful math books by Jay Cummings

and I wish that I could teach these classes

28.04.2025 17:34 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0