Lunch and Learn
Summaries of the information discussions and formal presentations that occur during DSST's Lunch and Learns. Every Tuesday at 12 PM Eastern Time.
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Discussions
Future Topics of Lunch and Learn
DSST members and friends brainstormed for upcoming lunch and learn topics
8/5/2025, attendance: 6
Farewell Lunch and Learn for Mia
DSST members and friends said a fond farewell to our IRTA @MIZwally
7/1/2025, attendance: 6
Generative AI Casual Discussion
DSST members and friends discussed safe usage of generative AI
6/24/2025, attendance: 4
FAIR Jupyter Notebooks
DSST members and friends discussed how to make Jupyter notebookd more F.A.I.R. by making them interoperable and reusable.
6/17/2025, attendance: 7
PyCon US 2025
Jeff attended PyCon US 2025 in Pittsburgh and was kind enough to share his experience and highlights from some of the talks.
6/10/2025, attendance: 7
Centralization of Resources
DSST members and friends discussed the impacts of centralization of LLMs and compute resources.
6/3/2025, attendance: 5
MRI Crash Course, Part 4
In DSST's fourth and final part of the MRI crash course, we cover the basics of image pre-processing for MRI and fMRI.
5/27/2025, attendance: 5
MRI Crash Course, Part 3
In part 3 of the DSST MRI crash course, we cover the basics of BOLD and fMRI.
5/6/2025, attendance: 8
MRI Crash Course, Part 2
In this part of the DSST MRI crash course, we cover sequences and sources of artifacts in MRI images.
4/29/2025, attendance: 7
MRI Crash Course, Part 1
DSST provided a crash course into MRI. In this part, we cover how an MRI signal is generated and spatially encoded.
4/22/2025, attendance: 10
Code Debugging
DSST and friends discussed tips and tricks on debugging analysis code and pipelines.
4/15/2025, attendance: 5
Big SLURM Jobs
DSST and friends discussed tips and tricks to designing, running, and monitoring big SLURM jobs.
3/25/2025, attendance: 9
Static Code Analysis
DSST and friends discussed the benefits and considerations of static code analysis in Python with a focus on Ruff.
3/18/2025, attendance: 8
Teaching and Learning Data Science
2/25/2025, attendance: 4
DSST and friends discussed various experiences, resources, and strategies for both teaching and learning data science and programming topics.
Data Management Tools
2/11/2025
DSST and friends discussed the tools and strategies they use for data management.
Python Package Managers
2/4/2025
DSST and friends discussed the pros and cons of the various Python package managers and dependency managers available.
Website Automation Tools
12/17/2024
DSST and friends discussed tools for generating and hosting static web pages. Challenges and potential solutions for large file hosting on static pages were discussed. While we didn't arrive at a definitive solution, various tools and strategies were proposed.
Test Driven Development
12/10/2024
DSST and friends discussed the challenges and tools of test driven development for NIH research.
Aliases
12/3/2024
DSST and friends discussed aliases commonly used in shell RC files when using biowulf and other servers.
IDEs
11/26/2024
DSST and friends discussed which IDEs were commonly used. Other topics included the Pandas query method, interest in the polars python library, and a discussion on documentation tools like ReadTheDocs (which can use mkdocs or sphinx under the hood) and Jupyter Book.
Presentations
Introduction to Light Microscopy
@joshlawrimore gave a presentation on resolution and discussed the 2014 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for breaking the resolution limit.
8/12/2025, attendance: 10
Tissue Clearing
Presentation on making sample tissue transparent using tissue clearing culminating in the publication "Achieving optical transparency in live animals with absorbing molecules.".
7/29/2025, attendance: 6
Building an Natural Language Query Agent
Demonstration of building a Natural Language Query Agent using DuckDB, LangGraph, Instructor, Pydantic Models and OpenAI Model API. Presentation by Joshua Jacobs, PhD and Travis Richardson.
4/8/2025, attendance: 10
Streamlit Demo
10/22/2024
Demonstration of a very simple dashboard that uses DANDI (Distributed Archives for Neurophysiology Data Integration) Python API.
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