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 have been moved to online learning formats due to campus closures from COVID-19.
| DATE | WORKSHOP | INSTRUCTOR |
|---|---|---|
| Feb 3, 2022 |
Parallel/GPU Computing with MATLAB | Ed Hall |
| Feb 9, 2022 |
Scientific Image Processing with Python | Karsten Siller |
| Feb 17, 2022 |
Converting Jupyter Notebooks to run as a Batch Job | Jacalyn Huband |
| Feb 21, 2022 |
Single Cell RNA Analysis | Will Rosenow |
| Feb 24, 2022 |
Optimization Techniques for MATLAB | Ed Hall |
| Feb 28, 2022 |
Building Containers for Rivanna | Ruoshi Sun |
| Mar 14, 2022 |
Using Spark on Rivanna | Ruoshi Sun |
| Mar 16, 2022 |
Using Rivanna from the Command Line | 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
Coffee & Coding
Want to learn a new coding skill?
Join us on Zoom for Coffee&Coding every Thursday afternoon between noon and 12:30 for amazing coding tips that will streamline your research!
Upcoming topics include “Text parsing/regular expressions”, “Error handling with try and except”, and “Working with date/time structures” All are welcome!
Time: Thursday’s from 12:00-12:30
Zoom: https://virginia.zoom.us/j/96765962746?pwd=NEIwNDkwNUMvNDk0RXk2SkdaSSs4Zz09
Below is the schedule for Spring 2022:
| # | Date | Topic | Language | Instructor |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1/27/2022 | PrettyPrinter with complex data structures | Python | Will Rosenow |
| 2 | 2/3/2022 | f strings in python | Python | Will Rosenow |
| 3 | 2/10/2022 | Plotting with Matplotlib | Python | Will Rosenow |
| 4 | 2/17/2022 | Building lists with .append() | Python | Will Rosenow |
| 5 | 2/24/2022 | Text parsing/regular expressions | Python | Will Rosenow |
| 6 | 3/3/2022 | Error handling with try and except | Python | Will Rosenow |
| 7 | 3/17/2022 | Plot annotations with ggplot2 | R | Marieke Jones |
| 8 | 3/24/2022 | Mathematical Annotation in R | R | Clay Ford |
| 9 | 3/31/2022 | Working with Dates in R | R | Clay Ford |
| 10 | 4/7/2022 | Data cleaning with tidyverse | R | Will Rosenow |
| 11 | 4/14/2022 | across() function | R | Marieke Jones |
| 12 | 4/21/2022 | purrr map() function | R | Marieke Jones |
| 13 | 4/28/2022 | Rolling joins | R | Clay Ford |
Workshop Material
Course material and exercises are available through a companion site. Feel free to browse classes, tutorials and workshop material and 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? Let us know.