Blogs and article series
- Michael Betancourt's writings on Bayesian analysis
- Jake VanderPlas's blog on using Python for data analysis
- Tom Augspurger's blog on modern Pandas
- Points of View series from Nature Methods on visualization of biological data
- Points of Significance series from Nature Methods on good statistical practices
Videos
- Joe Blitzstein's famous course on probability
- A set of cartoons illustating concepts in probability from Joe Blitzstein
- Michael Betancourt's talk on Hamiltonian Monte Carlo
- Michael Betancourt's talk on Bayesian modeling techniques
- Jake VanderPlas's Frequentism and Bayesianism: What's the Big Deal?
- Eric Ma's lighting talk about data validaton (just watch the first 3:30)
- Smith and van der Walt's talk about colormaps
Online tutorials
- Caltech BE/Bi/NB 203: Introduction to Programming Bootcamp, a set of tutorials and exercises to learn basic Python programming for scientific applications
- DataCamp, online education for data science
- Zed Shaw's Learning Python the Hard Way, a good way to learn basic Python
- Code Academy Python tutorial, another good resource for learning Python
- 10 minutes to pandas
- Lectures on scientific python (a couple especially good ones have links below)
- Segmentation using scikit-image
- SciPy lecture on basic image processing
- More advanced SciPy lecture on image processing
- Dan White's excellent intro to image processing
- Collection of teaching materials from the Biopolis Dresden Imaging Platform
Useful tools
- Stan: probabilistic programming language
- ColorBrewer2: colormap generator
Other image processing tools
- ImageJ: NIH-sponsored biological image processing suite
- ImageJ2: an in-progress re-write of ImageJ
- Fiji: ImageJ, batteries included!
- ilastik: an interactive learning and segmentation toolkit
- Insight Segementation and Registration Toolkit (ITK): sophisticated system for segmentation
- CellProfiler: Java-based cell segmenter
- Icy: platform for bioimage informatics
- OpenCV: computer vision software
- LOCI Bio-Formats: tools to convert between image formats