BD Cyto event trivia answers

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Question 1

What is Shapiro’s 7thlaw? 

Answer

You can’t make chicken salad out of chicken… / Garbage in garbage out / No data analysis technique can make good data out of bad data
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Question 2

What was the first cytometric analysis-only software?

Answer

Joe Trotter’s WinMDI
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Question 3

What does the acronym tSNE stand for?

Answer

t-distributed stochastic neighbor embedding
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Question 4

What new tool in FlowJo allows you to forward propagate dimensionality reduction parameters or cluster membership to new data sets?

Answer

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Question 5

In what kind of distribution are the mean, median, and mode equal?

Answer

Normal or Gaussian
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Question 6

Name any two clustering algorithms available as FlowJo plugins.

Answer

Any 2 of: FlowMeans, Phenograph, FlowSOM, xShift, T-Rex, EZ Dafi, SVM
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Question 7

The BD® Research Cloud will be like the One Ring, as it will unite all BD software. Given that analogy, product owner Emilie Jalbert is our:
  1. Gandalf   c) Frodo
  2. Sauron     d) Samwise

Answer

c) Frodo – because she delivers the product
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Question 8

What does FMO stand for?

Answer

Fluorescence Minus One
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Question 9

What color is chlorophyll autofluorescence?

Answer

Orange / Red
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Question 10

Which is not a way that tweaking compensation (or unmixing) and faking a moment of complete euphoria are alike?

    1. It may not be the ‘right’ thing to do, but it’s the quick and easy way to be done
    2. It’s better for everyone involved if you don’t admit you’ve done it
    3. If you fake it, you don’t fix the underlying problem
    4. Everyone screams when doing it

Answer

(b) It’s better for everyone involved if you don’t admit you’ve done it