Workshops Offered

Our workshops are designed to teach the fundamental data skills for researchers to make effective and efficient progress in their own research. This means matching the skills required with domain and learning stage.

Current workshops are designed for researchers with little to no prior computational experience.

We use a single dataset throughout the workshop to model the data management and analysis workflow. There are workshop flavors for each domain and dataset, and those can be selected when a workshop is requested. While we are developing new lessons, we cannot offer any custom content at this time.

Biology Workshops

Biological Data and R

This workshop uses survey data of small mammals, and goes from initial data organization in spreadsheets and project setup to data management in SQL and data analysis and visualization in R.

Curriculum

• Data organization in spreadsheets
• Data cleaning with OpenRefine
• Data management with SQL
• Data analysis and visualization in R

Biological Data and Python

This workshop uses survey data of small mammals, and goes from initial data organization in spreadsheets and project setup to data management in SQL and data analysis and visualization in Python.

Curriculum

• Data organization in spreadsheets
• Data cleaning with OpenRefine
• Data management with SQL
• Data analysis and visualization in Python

Genomics Workshop

This workshop is focused on working with genomics data. It starts with project organization, goes through an introduction to the command line, using cloud computing for bioinformatics pipelines and an introduction to data analysis and visualization in R.

Curriculum

• Project organization
• Introduction to the command line
• Introduction to cloud computing
• Data analysis and visualization in R