Biostatistics Methodology Journal Club
2nd Monday of the month
12:00PM - 1:00PM | Belfer 1006E
Kith Pradhan, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Epidemiology & Population Health
April 13, 2026
Charlie Hall, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Epidemiology & Population Health (Biostatistics) and Neurology
May 11, 2026
Data Science Workshop Series
Data Wrangling
Instructor: Angel Garcia de la Garza, Ph.D.
Overwhelmed by messy datasets?
Learn how to transform, reshape, and summarize complex data step-by - step using tidyverse in R, applying tidy data principles and reproducible workflows to prepare datasets for analysis and visualization.
April 20, 2026
| 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
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Data Visualization in R
Instructor: Kith Pradhan, Ph.D.
Not sure how to turn your data into clear, compelling graphics?
Build scatterplots, boxplots, and bar charts step-by-step in ggplot2 while mastering layering, readable syntax, and simple customizations to create polished, effective visualizations.
April 27, 2026
| 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
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Practical Machine Learning
Instructor: Melissa Fazzari, Ph.D.
Curious how modern machine learning classifiers actually compare?
Use R to preprocess real data, fit Random Forests, penalized regression, gradient boosting, and SuperLearner models, evaluate them with cross-validation, and explore variable importance for interpretability.
May 04, 2026
| 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
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