Like cleaning test tubes and pipetting, computing is a basic research skill.
Monthly workshops for Queen's Medical students focused on computing skills fundamentals you’ll need for getting your study data cleaned up, organized, analysed, and visualized.
Workshops
Here's a list of the workshops, past and future.
SpreadsheetsNovember 16, 2017
Spreadsheets are powerful -- learn how to use them well.
Messy DataDecember 6, 2017
Find and fix irregularities in your data using OpenRefine.
ProgrammingJan 16 or 25, 2018
A gentle introduction to programming using the
R programming language.
Data Wrangling
February 23, 2018 Filter, chop, and prepare your data for analysis.
Visualization
March 28, 2018
Learn to create scatter, bar, line, and boxplots
Mini-session on Statistics
May 7 & 8, 2018 A very brief introduction to statistics in R
Capstone Project
May 7 & 8, 2018 Now you try it.
About Me
My name is Jon Pipitone. I'm second year medical student at Queen's University, and the instructor for this course. I have a BSc and MSc in Computer Science from the University of Toronto, and I have worked as a software developer and research programmer for many years. I am also a volunteer instructor with Software Carpentry and Data Carpentry -- two organizations that teach computing skills to researchers.
Contact
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