We are excited to be involved with the Data Science Institute - Data Science for Social Group (DSI-DSSG) summer program in the past three summers.

This summer ASDa was involved in teaching three and a half days of R workshops for the DSSG fellows. With dedication and hard-work of the DSSG fellows we were able to cover quite a lot of topics such as intro to base R, graphics with ggplot2, data manipulation with dplyr, reproducible research with R, Makefile, git, gitLab and Rmarkdown, introduction to machine learning, and introduction to statistical modeling techniques such as linear regression, mixed effect models, logistic, Poisson and Negative Binomial regression and splines.

We regularly provide a series of R training workshops for the ECOSCOPE network.

Workshops are open to all. Subjects include introductory R, graphics with ggplot, data manipulation with dplyr, statistical models and reproducible research.

Different workshop series are typically run monthly mainly throughout the Fall and Winter semesters. See the ECOSCOPE event page for dates.

The Statistical Opportunity for Students (SOS) program is designed to help UBC graduate students formulate and understand the statistical issues involved in their research projects and is open to all UBC graduate students. If you are a graduate student at UBC, you are eligible for a meeting with an ASDa consultant to discuss your project and address your statistical questions, following which you will receive a written summary with recommendations. This service is provided at no charge to you.

See our SOS program page for details how to contact us.

We regularly provide a series of Statistics webinars for the Graduate Pathways to Success program that are geared toward a level that assumes no statistical background.

Subjects covered in the current term are regression analysis, modelling discrete data (counts and proportions) and mixed effects models.

Interested? See the GPS Workshps and Events page for dates and to register.