Our group gives biostatistics students of all levels the opportunity to develop computing skills useful for statisticians. We offer one hour sessions every twice a month on topics in computing, usually hosted by faculty members in the Department of Biostatistics at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. These sessions usually take place every other Thursday from 12:00-1:15 in W2015, (our Student Journal Club meets on Fridays).
The topics covered in our sessions are flexible and open to student input. Some of the topics that students have suggested so far include the Unix / Linux environment, using the cluster (usher), creating R packages and documentation, emacs configuration for LaTeX / ESS, advanced topics in emacs, etc. We plan to address these and other topics at our lunch sessions throughout the course of this year. If you have further suggestions for topics, please send an email to Jon Benenson or George Wu.
| Room: | W2015 |
| Day | Time | Topic | Notes | Pizza? | |||||
| Thu | 9/11 | 12:00-1:15pm | Introduction to Departmental Computing (Roger) | Yes | |||||
| Thu | 9/25 | 12:00-1:15pm | Set up your laptop! | PC Notes | Mac | No | ||||
| Thu | 10/9 | 12:00-1:15pm | Explaining Enigma (TBD) | Yes | |||||
| Thu | 10/23 | 12:00-1:15pm | Tips and Tricks (Student Discussion) | Yes | |||||
| Thu | 11/6 | 12:00-1:15pm | Introduction to Emacs and ESS (TBD) | No | |||||
| Thu | 11/20 | 12:00-1:15pm | Caffo Computing: Assortment of Tips #1 | Caffo Notes | Yes | ||||
| Thu | 12/4 | 12:00-1:15pm | Webpages (Roger) | Webpage Example | No | ||||
| Thu | 2/5 | 12:00-1:15pm | The Manipulation, Analysis, and Exploration of Large Matrices in R (Hector and Rob) | Hector Notes | YES | ||||
| Fri | 3/6 | 12:00-1:15pm | Gmail (Bruce) IN BIOSTAT LIBRARY!! | GMAIL Notes | YES | ||||
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Last modified: Mon Aug 21 2006 |