Orange Blog
By: AJDA, Mar 8, 2017
Workshop on InfraOrange
Thanks to the collaboration with synchrotrons Elettra (Trieste) and Soleil (Paris), Orange is getting an add-on InfraOrange, with widgets for analysis of infrared spectra. Its primary users obviously come from these two institutions, hence we organized the first workshop for InfraOrange at one of them. Some 20 participants spent the first day of the workshop in Trieste learning the basics of Orange and its use for data mining. With Janez at the helm and Marko assisting in the back, we traversed the standard list of visual and statistical techniques and a bit of unsupervised and supervised learning.
By: BLAZ, Mar 6, 2017
Orange Workshops: Luxembourg, Pavia, Ljubljana
February was a month of Orange workshops. Ljubljana: Biologists We (Tomaž, Martin and I) have started in Ljubljana with a hands-on course for the COST Action FA1405 Systems Biology Training School. This was a four hour workshop with an introduction to classification and clustering, and then with application of machine learning to analysis of gene expression data on a plant called Arabidopsis. The organization of this course has even inspired us for a creation of a new widget GOMapMan Ontology that was added to Bioinformatics add-on.
By: AJDA, Dec 16, 2016
BDTN 2016 Workshop: Introduction to Data Science
Every year BEST Ljubljana organizes BEST Days of Technology and Sciences, an event hosting a broad variety of workshops, hackathons and lectures for the students of natural sciences and technology. Introduction to Data Science, organized by our own Laboratory for Bioinformatics, was this year one of them. Related: Intro to Data Mining for Life Scientists The task was to teach and explain basic data mining concepts and techniques in four hours.
By: BLAZ, Oct 2, 2016
Intro to Data Mining for Life Scientists
RNA Club Munich has organized Molecular Life of Stem Cells Conference in Ljubljana this past Thursday, Friday and Saturday. They asked us to organize a four-hour workshop on data mining. And here we were: four of us, Ajda, Anze, Marko and myself (Blaz) run a workshop for 25 students with molecular biology and biochemistry background. We have covered some basic data visualization, modeling (classification) and model scoring, hierarchical clustering and data projection, and finished with a touch of deep-learning by diving into image analysis by deep learning-based embedding.
By: BLAZ, Sep 15, 2016
Data Mining Course in Houston #2
This was already the second installment of Introduction to Data Mining Course at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas. Just like the last year, the course was packed. About 50 graduate students, post-docs and a few faculty attended, making the course one of the largest elective PhD courses from over a hundred offered at this prestigious medical school. The course was designed for students with little or no experience in data science.
By: BLAZ, Oct 9, 2015
Data Mining Course in Houston
We have just completed an Introduction to Data Mining, a graduate course at Baylor College of Medicine in Texas, Houston. The course was given in September and consisted of seven two-hour lectures, each one followed with a homework assignment. The course was attended by about 40 students and some faculty and research staff. This was a challenging course. The audience was new to data mining, and we decided to teach them with the newest, third version of Orange.
By: BLAZ, Feb 19, 2015
Orange in Pavia, Italy
These days, we (Blaz Zupan and Marinka Zitnik, with full background support of entire Bioinformatics Lab) are running a three-day course on Data Mining in Python. Riccardo Bellazzi, a professor at University of Pavia, a world-renown researcher in biomedical informatics, and most of all, a great friend, has invited us to run the elective course for Pavia’s grad students. The enrollment was, he says, overwhelming, as with over 50 students this is by far the best attended grad course at Pavia’s faculty of engineering in the past years.
By: BIOLAB, May 26, 2014
Workshops at Baylor College of Medicine
On May 22nd and May 23rd, we (Blaz Zupan and Janez Demsar, assisted by Marinka Zitnik and Balaji Santhanam) have given two hands-on workshops called Data Mining without Programming at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas. Actually, there was a lot of programming, but no Python or alike. The workshop was designed for biomedical students and Baylor’s faculty members. We have presented a visual programming approach for development of data mining workflows for interactive data exploration.