Jan Aerts
@janaerts.bsky.social
Professor interested in data visualisation, especially in biology (omics, biodiversity, etc) ... and jazz Running the Augmented Intelligence for Data Analytics Lab http://aida-lab.be Trying to emulate Paul Desmond on alto
A Computer Scientist in a Business School: Fighting Fire with Fire: Scalable Personalized Oral Exams with an ElevenLabs Voice AI Agent www.behind-the-enemy-lines.com/2025/12/figh...
Fighting Fire with Fire: Scalable Personalized Oral Exams with an ElevenLabs Voice AI Agent
It all started with cold calling. In our new "AI/ML Product Management" class (co-taught with Konstantinos Rizakos ), the "pre-case" submi...
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The eXplainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) Triad: Models, Importances, and Significance at Scale www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 🧬🖥️🧪 Bioconductor #Rstats pkg: www.bioconductor.org/packages/XAI... Source: github.com/GhislainFiev...
OK. Combining #logseq with #gemini_cli may finally be a way to really use it as an external memory. "I think I have scattered different ideas that I needed to remember across all my notes. Can you list them?"
Next year's halloween, I will either dress as MS Sharepoint, or a VCF file.
Now this is how you detect whether an election was stolen. Humans choose rounder numbers. by @TheEconomist
Our latest paper now accessible in preprint: how we used a #visualanalytics approach to dig deeper into the #microbiome of hairy root disease in tomato doi.org/10.21203/rs.... #topologicaldataanalysis #TDA #topicmodelling #latentdirichletallocation
Unveiling tomato root-associated bacterial interactions responding to hairy root disease
Background: Hairy root disease (HRD), caused by rhizogenic Agrobacterium strains, is a significant disease threat to modern hydroponic greenhouses, which can result in up to 15% loss in yield. Our pri...
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‘Big pharma’ kraakt complexe biologie dankzij Belgische software van Aspect Analytics www.tijd.be/ondernemen/f...
‘Big pharma’ kraakt complexe biologie dankzij Belgische software van Aspect Analytics
Het Limburgse Aspect Analytics tankt 10 miljoen euro voor de ontwikkeling van zijn software om weefselstalen te analyseren. ‘Zeven van de grootste twintig farmabedrijven zijn klant.’
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Dear interwebs. We're trying to find out how many scientific papers use a specific visual, e.g. upset or circos. Any ideas on how to identify these? A search for the term doesn't work because it is not always named. Also: a simple picture search seems too limited. Any ideas appreciated with a beer.
Thank you to all the organisers and participants for joining us at @ebi.embl.org for this week's data visualisation for biology course. Sign up for updates on 'Introduction to multi-omics data integration and visualisation' 2026 course: www.ebi.ac.uk/training/eve... @janaerts.bsky.social #dataviz
In preparation for a #dataviz course at the @training.ebi.embl.org later this month, I've created a cheatsheet for creating custom SVG images in #marimo #python. If anyone finds errors: let me know! aida-lab.be/assets/marim...
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Being dependent on US services has become a clear liability. The head prosecutor of the International Criminal Court has lost access to his email (apnews.com/article/icc-...). Can #kuleuven move towards open source / EU software? cc @tinebaelmans.bsky.social #kuleuven #ict
Trump's sanctions on ICC prosecutor have halted tribunal's work
Nearly three months ago, U.S. President Donald Trump slapped sanctions on the International Criminal Court's chief prosecutor, Karim Khan.
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Our latest paper is out: peerj.com/articles/cs-.... We added functionality to the #HDBSCAN clustering algorithm to also detect branches hdbscan.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ho... #eda #datavis #clustering
FLASC: a flare-sensitive clustering algorithm
Exploratory data analysis workflows often use clustering algorithms to find groups of similar data points. The shape of these clusters can provide meaningful information about the data. For example, a...
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Eigenvalues of a parameterized 4×4 matrix Each point corresponds to a non-real eigenvalue of a matrix of the form: [[0, 0, -1, -1], [1, -1, 0, 0], [0, 1, A, 0], [1, 0, -1, B]] where A and B are independently drawn from a continuous uniform distribution on (−3, 3). #mathart #Mathematics #p5js
SpatialRNA: a Python package for easy application of Graph Neural Network models on single-molecule spatial transcriptomics dataset www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 🧬🖥️🧪 github.com/pyg-team/pyt...
If you're a biologist interested in data visualisation, check out the vizbi conference www.linkedin.com/events/vizbi... #omics
VIZBI 2025: 15th international meeting on Visualising Biological Data | LinkedIn
VISUALIZING BIOLOGICAL DATA. Join us 8-11 April online or in-person at the University of Cambridge for VIZBI 2025, the 15th international meeting on Visualising Biological Data. Pre-register now at ht...
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We are excited to introduce Mercury, the first commercial-grade diffusion large language model (dLLM)! dLLMs push the frontier of intelligence and speed with parallel, coarse-to-fine text generation.
On how to use #mistral #llm to talk to your #zotero library: www.youtube.com/watch?v=x34I...
Google's AI co-scientist and similar tools may disrupt scientific research even more than AI is already doing. We'll still have to see how it pans out, but we'll need to be prepared. Also: not everyone will have the same access to these tools! storage.googleapis.com/coscientist_...
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Just released a first version of my #graph #anywidget at pypi.org/project/grap... for displaying (and brushing) force-directed node-link diagrams in #marimo. With a little help from @manzt.sh
📊 & 🧪 Join the #DataViz for #LifeScience course at EMBL-EBI! Organised by Jan Aerts/Ryo Sakai, this year with my Keynote! :) --> Application due March 9th www.ebi.ac.uk/training/eve...
EMBL-EBI Training@training.ebi.embl.org · 2y agoIf you would like to gain knowledge and practical experience in how to use data visualisation tools to gain insights into complex biological data, apply for this course by 9 March: www.ebi.ac.uk/training/eve... Some financial assistance is available - see course website for more info. #dataviz 🧪
If you would like to gain knowledge and practical experience in how to use data visualisation tools to gain insights into complex biological data, apply for this course by 9 March: www.ebi.ac.uk/training/eve... Some financial assistance is available - see course website for more info. #dataviz 🧪
Very interesting paper: "A Grammar of Hypotheses for Visualization, Data, and Analysis", by Remco Chang's group arxiv.org/abs/2204.14267 This will definitely go into my #dataviz course, and can anchor several of the discussions we have with collaborators.
Are you a biologist interested in data visualisation to help you explore complex data or create effective visuals? If so, make sure to register for the course that we're organising at the EBI in June www.ebi.ac.uk/training/eve... #biovis #viz #dataviz
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A generalised paradigm for composable visualisations in python #dataviz I'll definitely be checking this out. genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
Marsilea: an intuitive generalized paradigm for composable visualizations - Genome Biology
Biological data visualization is challenged by the growing complexity of datasets. Traditional single-data plots or simple juxtapositions often fail to fully capture dataset intricacies and interrelat...
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Interesting paper by van den Brandt (TU/e): "Understanding Visualization Authoring Techniques for Genomics Data in the Context of Personas and Tasks" ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.... #omics #dataviz #biovis
IEEE Xplore Full-Text PDF:
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Just realized BlueSky allows sharing valuable stuff cause it doesn't punish links. 🤩 Let's start with "What are embeddings" by @vickiboykis.com The book is a great summary of embeddings, from history to modern approaches. The best part: it's free. Link: vickiboykis.com/what_are_emb...
Look who's here @pnas.org ✔️ @science.org ✔️ @naturecellbiology.bsky.social ✔️ @natrevgenet.bsky.social ✔️ @naturebiotech.bsky.social ✔️ @naturemicrobiol.bsky.social ✔️ @naturechemistry.bsky.social ✔️ @genesdev.bsky.social ✔️ @cellchembiol.bsky.social ✔️ @genomeresearch.bsky.social ✔️ @jcellbiol.bsky.social ✔️
@mithridates.bsky.social You may know this: what graph algorithms are available for #surrealdb? I'm talking about centrality measures (betweenness centrality, degree centrality, ...), shortest path, minimal spanning tree, etc?
