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Eurydice's avatar

Please let me know if you ever write a programming for biologists textbook; I learned more from this blog post than I have in multiple days of vibe coding.

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Claus Wilke's avatar

I will probably never write a programming book. The problem with programming books is they are outdated the moment they go into print, as the field moves so fast. I deliberately didn't put any code into my dataviz book for that exact reason.

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Eurydice's avatar

A very good point on the programming book, however I’m immediately hearing that there is a dataviz book

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Claus Wilke's avatar

I'm pretty sure it was mentioned in the post. ("When I wrote my book on data visualization I used this technique quite frequently, for example in this chapter.")

Either way, here it is: https://clauswilke.com/dataviz/

There's also a class based on this book, and it has code examples and exercises: https://wilkelab.org/SDS366/

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Mario Pasquato's avatar

Come on, it is well known that you have to change your random seed until your results become significant, so obviously it can’t always be 42. /s

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Claus Wilke's avatar

Ah, I didn't consider that. Good point!

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Craig's avatar

This is excellent mathematics.

Thank you.

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