Dec 2015

1. What's better than beer? BEER!

   Entry #241

   17 Dec 2015

   3:28 pm

   Alison N Hale

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   From October 9-11, QUBES team members attended BEER - an international symposium on Biomathematics and Ecology Education and Research. This unique conference brings together biologists and mathematicians with the goal of fostering collaboration between the two fields. This year’s conference...

2. A great model to follow....

   Entry #237

   14 Dec 2015

   8:59 pm

   Jeremy M Wojdak

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   Here at QUBES we are trying to build a community of users that are excited to contribute and add their expertise, working together to solve the big problems we all face in quantitative biology education.  Perhaps the best model one could hope to emulate (at least in some ways) is the...

3. Making instructor/student handouts in R

   Entry #225

   01 Dec 2015

   9:32 am

   Jeremy M Wojdak

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   There was an excellent post on lukemiller.org about using R and knitr to make handouts/lab assignments/documents integrating R code, R output, and narrative text.  Click that link to learn how to control what gets shown to whom.  Besides being useful in this context, using R...