Magic numbers in plotting
Abracadabra, make a graph!
By Faith Okamoto
I’ve just started a class on making scientific plots so I’ll cover
a common phenomenon: magic numbers.
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👋🏽 My CV is available. 👋🏽
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A pretty good README
March 2025
By Faith OkamotoFigured I could do with some praise, and luckily enough, the first manuscript in Bioinformatics’s “Advance articles” section fit the bill. [Read More] -
Don't Repeat Yourself
herein I repeat standard advice
By Faith OkamotoA recent pull request I made was supposed to just add a small function to a larger codebase. But, while poking around the code, I ran into egregiously non-DRY bits. Being who I am1, I refactored. Today’s rant is about DRY coding. I’m aware this has been done to death... [Read More] -
The art of toy data
How and why to make small test data
By Faith OkamotoA recent class project had me creating and documenting a small Python script (bach). As part of this process, I made toy data. This post will go over the process I used. [Read More] -
Use data files
February 2025
By Faith OkamotoI’m not making this whole blog into critiques. My February is just busy, and I don’t want to run out of time for this month’s critique. [Read More]