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 2021 have been moved to online learning formats due to campus closures from COVID-19.
| DATE | WORKSHOP | INSTRUCTOR |
|---|---|---|
| Oct 20, 2021 |
Introduction to Shiny | Christina Gancayco |
| Oct 21, 2021 |
Scientific Image Processing with Matlab | Ed Hall |
| Oct 25, 2021 |
Building Containers for Rivanna | Ruoshi Sun |
| Oct 27, 2021 Nov 3, 2021 |
RNA-Seq Analysis, Part I & II | Gladys Andino, Pankaj Kumar |
| Oct 27, 2021 |
Customizing Shiny Apps | Christina Gancayco |
| Nov 4, 2021 |
Scientific Image Processing with Python | Karsten Siller |
| Nov 4, 2021 |
Scientific Computing with Julia on Rivanna | Ed Hall |
| Nov 8, 2021 |
Accelerate Python with RAPIDS | Ruoshi Sun |
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 “Basic data cleaning with tidyverse”, “f strings in Python”, and “Joining data with pandas." All are welcome!
Time: Thursday’s from 12:00-12:30
Zoom: https://virginia.zoom.us/j/98493871072?pwd=b1ZUdGtiang0R29iTGloNlVHamU0dz09
Below is the schedule for Fall 2021:
| # | Date | Topic | Language | Instructor |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 9/2/2021 | Reading data in R | R | Will Rosenow |
| 2 | 9/9/2021 | Basic data cleaning with tidyverse | R | Will Rosenow |
| 3 | 9/16/2021 | across() function | R | Marieke Jones |
| 4 | 9/23/2021 | Joins with tidyverse | R | Will Rosenow |
| 5 | 9/30/2021 | Intro to ggplot2 | R | Will Rosenow |
| 6 | 10/7/2021 | Annotating a volcano plot | R | Marieke Jones |
| 7 | 10/14/2021 | gtsummary package | R | Marieke Jones |
| 8 | 10/21/2021 | Apply statements | R | Will Rosenow |
| 9 | 10/28/2021 | purr package functions | R | David Martin |
| 10 | 11/4/2021 | Reading data in Python | Python | Will Rosenow |
| 11 | 11/11/2021 | f strings in Python | Python | Will Rosenow |
| 12 | 11/18/2021 | Joining data with pandas | Python | Will Rosenow |
| 13 | 12/2/2021 | Error handling with try and except | Python | Will Rosenow |
| 14 | 12/9/2021 | List comprehension | Python | Jackie Huband |
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.