Enrolment is open in Oodi, a little later then planned, but the course itself will start as planned on the 6 September. The course will be available in Moodle next week and I will send the Moodle enrolment key by e-mail to those who enrol in Oodi.
I am on the train to Helsinki. I have been working at home while my foot recovers. From tomorrow I will be in Viiki and my teaching will start on 6 September.
My Achilles tendon broke on 9 June. I was operated on 14 June. I am on sick leave until 8 August. I will not be in my office during this time, but I read my e-mail everyday. If you need to get HOPs done in a hurry, need advice or have your studies registered, please, contact me or another of the plant biology study advisors by e-mail.
Yesterday I managed to get WinEdt, R, and SumatraPDF working together for editing Sweave files. I followed the instructions written by Duncan Murdoch. I have used WinEdt and LaTeX for a long time. The detail instructions for using WinEdt and SumatraPDF together came from Rob J Hyndman’s blog.
This makes working on the notes for the statistics courses a lot easier. Sweave allows me to include R commands in the LaTeX (text) file and get the R commands and/or output including figures directly into the pdf file. No cutting and pasting, no figure files produced separately!
I am planning with the help of Dr. Titta Kotilainen to implement some self study courses on statistics and R in Moodle. It will take months if not years to get all this ready, but some days ago I have started working on this.
Possible titles for the courses:
- Design and statistical analysis of experiments: A second course in applied statistics for biologists with examples in R. (nickname “baby ANOVA”) To include ANOVA, regression and ANCOVA, multiple comparisons and contrasts. 2 credit points. (To be implemented in 2011 or 2012. Mostly material on statistics, but will include example analyses done in R.)
- Basic introduction to R. (nickname “yet another introduction”.) Nothing new, except for self study and assessment in Moodle. 1 credit point. (To be implemented for testing in 2011.)
- Publication quality advanced graphics in R. (no nickname yet.) Mostly Lattice and ggplot2. 1 credit point. (To be implemented in 2012.)
- Plant growth analysis and other repeated measurements data analysis in R. (nickname “growth with R”). Details not decided. (To be implemented after 2011.)
Please comment. If you are a student do you think that any of these planed courses would be useful to you? Which one would you like to have available first?
Pedro.
Enrolment is open in Oodi. Course will start on 15 March.
Last summer I took some photographs with the help of my son Tomás. These photographs illustrate the colour of the light reflected by plants. They were taken with a digital camera (Olympus E-510, 50 mm f 1:2 objective) mounted on a tripod on a day with broken clouds in the sky. The FR photograph was taken with an optical “IR” pass filter that blocks all visible light (Wavelengths of less than 720 nm). The RED, BLUE and GREEN filtered ïmages are just the three channels of the sensor of the camera selected in post processing from an image taken without an optical filter. These four images are displayed in greyscale. The unfiltered colour image is also included for comparison.
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