Hopkins Biostatistics Student Computing Club


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


Schedule: We are in W2015. Pizza all the time! GW 1/29/2009

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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