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Setting up our lab

In our lab we do things differently. We work in the cloud. This means the data and the applications you need to analyze them will be available anytime from anywhere. You just need an Internet connection and a browser. Working in the cloud makes your life easier.
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Arthur Schopenhauer’s "On authorship and style".

Miguel A. Fortuna on Setting up our lab | 24 Aug 2020

Should peer review stop being anonymous? Inspired by Arthur Schopenhauer’s "On authorship and style", I now sign my reviews. I would like to share here some excerpts on anonymity in literary journals from this memorable essay.…

Our desktop computers: Raspberry Pi 4 + 2 vertical monitors.

Miguel A. Fortuna on Setting up our lab | 06 Jul 2020

We do not need powerful desktop computers in our lab, just single connection points in the cloud. Learn how to build a silent, energy-efficient, and dual display workspace.…

Zenodo: a catch-all repository for your research.

Miguel A. Fortuna on Setting up our lab | 04 May 2020

Zenodo is a general-purpose open-access repository that assign a persistent digital object identifier (DOI) to any research digital material. We show how to create a release of a repository stored in GitHub and upload it into Zenodo.…

Neo4j graph databases: working from Jupyterlab.

Miguel A. Fortuna on Setting up our lab, Our computational toolbox | 13 Apr 2020

Neo4j is a graph database that uses graph structures for semantic queries with nodes, edges, and properties to represent and store data. We will briefly describe the open source packages, written in Python and R, that we use in our lab to connect Neo4j databases from our JupyterLab server.…

JupyterLab extensions: LaTeX.

Miguel A. Fortuna on Setting up our lab, Our computational toolbox | 06 Apr 2020

The LaTex extension for JupyterLab allows for live-editing of LaTeX documents.…

JupyterLab extensions: GitLab.

Miguel A. Fortuna on Setting up our lab, Our computational toolbox | 30 Mar 2020

The JupyterLab GitLab extension allows lab members to select GitLab organizations and users, browse their repositories, and open the files in those repositories. If those files are notebooks, we can run them just as you would any other notebook.…

JupyterLab extensions: GitHub.

Miguel A. Fortuna on Setting up our lab, Our computational toolbox | 23 Mar 2020

The JupyterLab GitHub extension allows lab members to select GitHub organizations and users, browse their repositories, and open the files in those repositories. If those files are notebooks, we can run them just as you would any other notebook.…

JupyterLab extensions: Git as a Version Control System.

Miguel A. Fortuna on Setting up our lab, Our computational toolbox | 16 Mar 2020

Git, as a version control system, allows lab members to revert and go back to an older version of the code. Moreover, sometimes multiple members are working in parallel on the same code, so Git is needed to ensure there are no code conflicts between them.…

JupyterLab: getting your work done from anywhere.

Miguel A. Fortuna on Setting up our lab, Our computational toolbox | 09 Mar 2020

JupyterLab is a web-based interactive development environment for Jupyter notebooks, code, and data. By deploying it with JupyterHub in our server, lab members can work from the office, home or their favorite coffee shop, using a desktop computer, laptop, tablet or smartphone.…

Nextcloud: getting your data stored safely in your own cloud.

Miguel A. Fortuna on Setting up our lab, Our computational toolbox | 02 Mar 2020

Nextcloud allows your lab members to have all their files always accessible via the Internet, from wherever they are, and share them with their colleagues.…

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