Workshops
UVA Research Computing provides training opportunities covering a variety of data analysis, basic programming and computational topics. All of the classes listed below are taught by experts and are freely available to UVa faculty, staff and students.
Upcoming Workshops
Workshops for 2020 have been moved to online learning formats due to campus closures from COVID-19.
| DATE | WORKSHOP | INSTRUCTOR |
|---|---|---|
| 09/03/2020, 09/10/2020, 09/17/2020, 09/24/2020 | PhD Plus: Introduction to Programming in Python | Katherine Holcomb |
| 09/25/2020 | Parallel Computing with Matlab | Ed Hall |
| 10/07/2020 | Intro to Shiny Apps | Christina Gancayco |
| 10/09/2020 | Data Science with Matlab | Ed Hall |
| 10/13/2020 | Using Rivanna from the Command Line | Gladys Andino |
| 10/14/2020 | Building Software Containers for Rivanna | Ruoshi Sun |
| 10/15/2020 | Biopython | Karsten Siller |
| 10/21/2020 | Customizing Shiny Apps | Christina Gancayco |
| 10/23/2020 | Using the Julia Programming Language on Rivanna | Ed Hall |
| 10/24/2020, 11/01/2020 | Tensorflow -- Turning the Knobs (Overview and Q&A) | Jacalyn Huband |
| 11/12/2020 | Automation of Image Processing with Fiji/ImageJ and OMERO | Karsten Siller |
| 11/17/2020 | Using Bioinformatics Tools on Rivanna | Gladys Andino |
Research Computing is partnering with the Research Library and the Health Sciences Library to deliver workshops covering a variety of research computing topics.
All Upcoming Workshops from UVA Library Research Data Services
All Upcoming Workshops from UVA Health Sciences Library
Register
Register for our workshops through UVA Library Research Data Services and UVA Health Sciences Library, where many technical workshops are taught for beginner, intermediate, and advanced users. UVA Research Data Services offers training on data analysis, statistics, and computation and on Library resources and methods.
Broad categories of RDS sponsored workshops are:
- Getting Started with R
- R for Statistics
- R for Big (Comp/Data)
- Getting Started with Python
- Using Matlab
- Using Rivanna
- Using Tableau
- Using Fiji/ImageJ
- General Data Tools
- Computational Workflow Tools
- Grant Workflow Tools
- Writing Workflow Tools
Workshop Material
Course material and exercises are available through a companion site. Feel free to browse classes, read ahead, or learn at your own pace.
Previous Workshops
- Advanced Computing in the Cloud
- Advanced Data Manipulation with R
- Advanced Data Visualization with R
- Analyzing 16s RNA Amplicons
- Building Shiny Web Applications in R
- Conditionals and Iteration in R
- Data Analysis & Visualization with Python
- Data Visualization with Matlab
- Databases and How to Use Them
- Docker Containers for Scientific Research
- How to Work With Databases
- Image Data Management with OMERO
- Image Processing with Matlab
- Introduction to Cloud Computing
- Introduction to Docker Containers
- Introduction to Git and Github
- Introduction to High Performance Computing (Rivanna)
- Introduction to Highly-Sensitive Data Analysis (Ivy)
- Introduction to Matlab
- Introduction to Python
- Introduction to R
- Introduction to Rivanna
- Introduction to the Command Line
- Introduction to UVA Research Computing Resources
- Machine Learning in the Cloud
- Machine Learning with MatLab
- Next Generation Sequence Alignment
- Optimizing R
- Parallel Computing with Matlab
- R For Beginners
- R Package Development Tools
- Writing in Functions in R
Do you need a specific workshop and have a group of people to attend? Write us.