Events

  • Introduction to Python’s NumPy library

    This workshop will introduce you to the NumPy library in Python, which is useful in scientific computing. We will cover NumPy’s n-dimensional array object and associated functions in depth, along […]

    Visualization of spatial data

    Rackham Building, Earl Lewis Room, 3rd Floor East 915 E. Washington St., Ann Arbor, MI, United States

    This workshop will cover basic concepts and tools available in QGIS and R for visualizing spatial data. We will cover vector data but will also touch upon the visualization of […]

    R by Example: Functional Programming with data.table

    In the R by Example series of workshops, we’ll discuss example analyses in R as a vehicle for learning  commonly used tools and programming patterns. The “Functional Programming with dplyr” workshop […]

    Survival analysis in Python

    Rackham Building, Earl Lewis Room, 3rd Floor East 915 E. Washington St., Ann Arbor, MI, United States

    Survival analysis is used when working with data that may be censored, as often is the case in studies of human subjects with incomplete follow-up.  The presence of censoring makes […]

    Introduction to SAS: Simple Inference Procedures

    Prerequisites: Participant should have some familiarity with introductory statistics and be able to load data into and perform basic data manipulations in SAS. In this one-day, six-hour workshop we will […]

    Regular Expressions

    Regular expressions are perfectly suited for people who like puzzles. Regular expressions are a sequence of characters used to define a search pattern. They are commonly used to do “find” […]

    Go for data processing Part 1

    Rackham Building, Earl Lewis Room, 3rd Floor East 915 E. Washington St., Ann Arbor, MI, United States

    This is a two-session workshop on the use of Go for data processing.  Go is an open source language developed for general-purpose programming.  It is not more difficult to learn […]

    Machine Learning in R

    In this workshop, we’ll first discuss core machine learning concepts such as: choosing loss functions and evaluation metrics; splitting the data into training, validation, and testing sets; and cross-validation patterns […]