The Data Byte Archive
Community Building During Covid-19: A Grad School Themed Virtual Escape Room
Put Your Logic and Gaming Skills to the Test And Find Out If You Have What It Takes to Become the Sole Grad School Survivor! Survivor Grad School: The Darwinian Hunger Games Game Links Survivor Grad School - Game App Survivor Grad School - Google...
Climate Change in the Recent Past: A Scientific Exploration
How is Today's Climate Change Different from the Past Million Years? What are Milankovitch Cycles and How Do They Impact Earth's Climate? What is Happening Now and What Can We Do? Earlier this month a paper entitled World Scientists' Warning of Climate...
Developing An Intuition for Fourier Transforms
Unpacking the Black Box of "Complex Math"! As a computational biologist that studies circadian rhythms, often times I am found analyzing time series data. Mainly, I might be looking at the expression of a gene or biomarker over the course of the day, such as...
Disruptive Sports Tech: Exploratory Analysis of Swim World Record Data
Anomalies in Swim World Record Times Reveal Years in Which New Tech Was Adopted by The Sport! World records are broken every so often across racing sports, as training practices improve and techniques are refined. Each time a record is broken it becomes...
Will I Ever Sleep Again?!
When Can New Parents Expect To Get a Sound Night Sleep After the Birth of Their Baby? Last month Dr. John Hogenesch came to Northwestern to give a talk on Building Circadian Medicine into Pediatric Hospitals. Dr. Hogenesch is a Professor of Pediatrics and...
HelloWorld
Hello New Science Blog! Hello World! My name is Elan Ness-Cohn, and I am a PhD Candidate in the Driskill Graduate Program in Life Sciences at Northwestern University. As a computational biologist conducting research in the Braun Lab, I am interested in...
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