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LIS 4365 Web Design Technologies School Work

LIS 4365 Web Design Technologies: More JavaScript, and Debugging

Surprise! This week I will have done 2 modules for LIS 4365. This module goes more in depth with using JavaScript and saving images to the web. My Second JavaScript I have already made wrote one JavaScript program that had user interaction and if statements, which can be found here.…

By Simon Liles June 6, 2021LIS 4365 Web Design Technologies, School Work

LIS 4365 Web Design Technologies School Work

LIS 4365 Web Design Technologies: Intro to JavaScript

This past week has been all about getting to know JavaScript. It has been interesting to learn this language because it is both familiar and strange. The syntax is all very similar to C, but the Object Oriented Grammar is very similar to S3 and S4 classes in R. The…

By Simon Liles June 6, 2021LIS 4365 Web Design Technologies, School Work

LIS 4365 Web Design Technologies School Work

LIS 4365 Web Design Technologies: Home Page and First JavaScript

My website at simon-liles.42web.io is now actually running. It does not look nearly as professional as this blog, but I am building it from scratch. Right now there is not a lot to the website, just the home page and a link to another page that runs a small JavaScript.…

By Simon Liles May 28, 2021LIS 4365 Web Design Technologies, School Work

LIS 4365 Web Design Technologies School Work

LIS 4365 Web Design Technologies: Getting Started

Most summers I tend to not do much for school, last summer I got certified as a Dive Master and sailed up the East Coast. The summer before that I went from not a diver, to a Master SCUBA Diver. This summer I decided I want to expand my knowledge…

By Simon Liles May 23, 2021LIS 4365 Web Design Technologies, School Work

LIS 4370 R Programming School Work

LIS 4370 R Programming: Introducing protein8k

Over the past month or so I have been working with Dr. Alon Friedman to develop a package that can handle protein data. The result of these efforts is the protein8k package which can be found on my GitHub here. In this post I will be walking through and briefly…

By Simon Liles April 25, 2021LIS 4370 R Programming, School Work

LIS 4317 Data Visualization School Work

LIS 4317 Data Visualization: Visualizing COVID-19 Gene Sequencing Contributions

The Problem As the COVID-19 pandemic has raged, researchers have been working to track the virus and monitor its evolution. We have seen in the news a lot of discussion regarding South African, UK, and other variants of the virus. However, it is difficult to assume there is a consistent…

By Simon Liles April 25, 2021LIS 4317 Data Visualization, School Work

LIS 4317 Data Visualization School Work

LIS 4317 Data Visualization: Animated Graphics

Most data visualizations are static, and while one can visualize a fair number of variables, however it can still be limited. Since we are in the 21st century, we can take advantage of our access to computer graphics and reveal more about the data by adding motion. This could be…

By Simon Liles April 11, 2021LIS 4317 Data Visualization, School Work

LIS 4370 R Programming School Work

LIS 4370 R Programming: R Markdown

One of my favorite things about using R and RStudio, is how versatile the tools are. Not everything is about writing scripts to do lots of work. Sometimes you want to write documentation, reports, or whatever else you may want to write. Sometimes those documents are very closely related to…

By Simon Liles April 4, 2021LIS 4370 R Programming, School Work

LIS 4317 Data Visualization School Work

LIS 4317 Data Visualization: Networks

Network analysis is a very useful tool for describing complex relationships between many entities. To explore the concepts of network analysis I created 26 entities and randomly generated connections between them. To do this I wrote an R script which you can find on my GitHub here, or follow the…

By Simon Liles April 4, 2021LIS 4317 Data Visualization, School Work

LIS 4370 R Programming School Work

LIS 4370 R Programming: Debugging

Debugging is a critical skill for any programmer. Not very many enjoy it, the process often involves lots of intense googling, reading help pages and incomplete documentation, and occasionally the sacrificing of chickens. This week I have been given a chunk of code that contains a deliberate bug. You can…

By Simon Liles March 28, 2021LIS 4370 R Programming, School Work