This week, Hurricane Beryl hit Houston on July 8, leaving me without power and internet up to the day I’m writing this blog (7/13/2024). It was challenging to get any work done without internet, but I found refuge in local coffee shops where I had internet access and the help of my older brother on my coding project. Together, we finished creating a standard deviation bell curve, which shows where most of the probe feature importance values lie. Specifically, 98% of feature importance values are less than 0.285. We then completed coding the process to generate a histogram showing the importance of specific CpG sites across tissues. A fun fact: 8 probes have a feature importance of 0.35 across over 6 tissues! With my brother’s assistance, I was able to produce outstanding data that brings me one step closer to wrapping up this project. It was a strange week, but surprisingly productive in terms of project completion! Week 8 will include creating a probe vs. location Manhattan plot, which will be an awesome visualization tool for our data!

Thanks for reading,

John Paul Marconi