JH Biostat Computing Club 2018-19
I and Guoqing Wang hosted the Department of Biostatistics students Computing Club in 2018-19 academic year.
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Computing Club is one-hour session which gives students opportunities to share and develop computing skills useful for biostatisticians. It is held every other Tuesday 12:15-1:15 PM at JH SPH. Importantly, food 🍕🍌 is provided in every session!
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Past and upcoming topics and locations for 2018-19 academic year are listed below.
| Date (Location) | Topic | Presenter |
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| Sep 18, 2018 (E9519) | Data science project workflow (slides) | Ben Ackerman |
| Oct 16, 2018 (W2029) | The JHPCE Cluster: What does it do? Does it do things? Let’s find out! (cluster-example GitHub repo) | Jacob Fiksel |
| Nov 13, 2018 (E9519) | R Packages for the first year PhD curriculum (useful for non-phd students too!) | Lacey Etzkorn |
| Nov 27, 2018 (W4030) | Speeding up R with Rcpp (talk GitHub repo, talk slides) | Stephen Cristiano |
| Jan 29, 2019 (W2029) | Intro to Deep Learning (slides) | Guoqing Wang |
| Feb 12, 2019 (E9519) | Some topics seen at RStudio 2019 conference (slides) | Marta Karas |
| Feb 26, 2019 (W2029) | Blogdown tutorial: how to make your own personal academic website! (abstract and slides link) | Ben Ackerman |
| Apr 16, 2019 (W4030) | Computational and statistical methods in single-cell genomics (slides) | Zhicheng (Jason) Ji |
| Apr 30, 2019 (W4030) | Simulation studies on the cluster, and parallel computing in R with limited memory (slides) | Lamar Hunt |
