/cdsi/taxonomy/term/2/all en /cdsi/channels/event/research-software-engineering-forum-355442 <p><strong>Context:</strong> This past year, we at the Faculty of Science's <a href="/cdsi/" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">Computational and Data Systems Initiative (CDSI)</a> have been spending some time talking with</p> Wed, 14 Feb 2024 21:57:39 +0000 nadime.rahimian@mcgill.ca 1067 at /cdsi /cdsi/channels/event/workshop-genetic-meta-analysis-355362 <p><strong>Overview: </strong>Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have led to the identification of thousands of genetic variants associated with diseases such as type-2 diabetes and hypertension.  However, discoveries were made only after very la</p> Mon, 12 Feb 2024 21:06:05 +0000 nadime.rahimian@mcgill.ca 1065 at /cdsi /cdsi/channels/event/workshop-data-wrangling-python-353553 <p><strong>Workshop Overview:</strong> Data wrangling is a crucial step in the preparation of data before performing analyses. This workshop is designed to teach how to manipulate data in Python.</p> Wed, 13 Dec 2023 16:39:58 +0000 nadime.rahimian@mcgill.ca 1056 at /cdsi /cdsi/channels/event/workshop-treating-missing-data-bayesian-models-353559 <p><strong>Workshop Overview:</strong> The goal of this workshop is to serve as an introduction to Bayesian models and tools for analyzing missing or partially observed data.</p> Wed, 13 Dec 2023 16:57:32 +0000 nadime.rahimian@mcgill.ca 1062 at /cdsi /cdsi/channels/event/workshop-introduction-python-353551 <p><strong>Workshop Overview</strong>:  Although it would be near impossible to learn all of Python in only 2-hours, the goal of this workshop is to give students a taste of the wonders of programming by learning the world's most popular programming </p> Wed, 13 Dec 2023 16:32:05 +0000 nadime.rahimian@mcgill.ca 1054 at /cdsi /cdsi/channels/event/workshop-meta-analysis-353558 <p><strong>Workshop Overview: </strong>The goal of this workshop is to serve as an introduction to the use of meta-analysis to combine summary data.</p> Wed, 13 Dec 2023 16:54:55 +0000 nadime.rahimian@mcgill.ca 1061 at /cdsi /cdsi/channels/event/workshop-design-and-implementation-statistical-simulation-studies-353557 <p><b>Workshop Overview: </b>This workshop will explain the ‘why, when and how’ of statistical simulation studies.  Such studies are useful to aid the study of statistical procedures, and to test their performance on synthetic data.  However, they ar</p> Wed, 13 Dec 2023 16:52:19 +0000 nadime.rahimian@mcgill.ca 1060 at /cdsi /cdsi/channels/event/workshop-statistical-network-analysis-r-353556 <p><strong>Workshop Overview: </strong>A gentle introduction to the statistical analysis of network data, largely through the lens of the R package <i>igraph</i>.</p> Wed, 13 Dec 2023 16:48:02 +0000 nadime.rahimian@mcgill.ca 1059 at /cdsi /cdsi/channels/event/workshop-exploratory-data-analysis-python-353555 <p><strong>Workshop Overview</strong>: In thisworkshop, we will delve into the art of conducting Exploratory Data Analysis (EDA) on a given dataset.</p> Wed, 13 Dec 2023 16:44:41 +0000 nadime.rahimian@mcgill.ca 1058 at /cdsi /cdsi/channels/event/workshop-introduction-data-visualization-python-353554 <p><strong>Workshop Overview</strong>: In this workshop, students will learn:</p> <p>- The different types of plots depending on the characteristic of their data/variables</p> <p>- How to plot by group</p> Wed, 13 Dec 2023 16:42:16 +0000 nadime.rahimian@mcgill.ca 1057 at /cdsi /cdsi/channels/event/workshop-introduction-data-science-life-cycle-python-353552 <p><strong>Workshop Overview: </strong>This workshop presents an overview of the data science life cycle using the programming language Python, and using the environment Jupyter Notebooks.</p> Wed, 13 Dec 2023 16:37:50 +0000 nadime.rahimian@mcgill.ca 1055 at /cdsi /cdsi/channels/event/workshop-introduction-programming-r-353497 <p><strong>Workshop Overview: </strong>This workshop will give an overview of the foundations of programming in R.</p> Tue, 12 Dec 2023 21:21:45 +0000 nadime.rahimian@mcgill.ca 1041 at /cdsi /cdsi/channels/event/workshop-introduction-quarto-r-markdown-353548 <p><strong>Workshop Overview:</strong> As part of the data science life cycle series, this workshop will introduce you to the intuitive Quarto language in RStudio, and show you how to weave together your R code, output and graphs with text to produce</p> Wed, 13 Dec 2023 16:18:21 +0000 nadime.rahimian@mcgill.ca 1053 at /cdsi /cdsi/channels/event/workshop-working-text-r-353547 <p><strong>Workshop Overview: </strong>R is mostly known for its statistical methods on numbers. However, it is also capable of working efficiently with text and analysing it.</p> Wed, 13 Dec 2023 16:16:21 +0000 nadime.rahimian@mcgill.ca 1052 at /cdsi /cdsi/channels/event/workshop-version-control-git-r-353546 <p><strong>Workshop Overview:</strong> This workshop will enhance your knowledge of how to work with Git in R. Emphasis is put on collaboration with Git and comparing file versions.</p> <p>At the end of the workshop, you will:</p> Wed, 13 Dec 2023 16:13:44 +0000 nadime.rahimian@mcgill.ca 1051 at /cdsi