STAT 545 at UBC

UBC Statistics course in data wrangling, exploration, and analysis with R; Taught by @JennyBryan

[STAT 545 at UBC @STAT545]

Full disclosure: tweets from this account will be a mix of interesting data science stuff and STAT 545A / STAT 547M course minutiae.

[𝔹𝕖𝕣𝕟𝕕 𝕍𝕖𝕣𝕤𝕥 @BerndVerst]

Students - take a break from the textbooks. My fellow @azureadvocates and I are coming to your campus to teach you some real world #cloud development. It'll be fun 😀

@UBC 4/3
@HowardU 4/5
@UTAustin 4/9
@USC 4/10
@UCBerkeley 4/11
@UW 4/17

Register here: https://t.co/vKyco43tTn

[STAT 545 at UBC @STAT545]

@norcalbiostat This section highlights importance of rendering Rmd to md AND committing + pushing the any related figs https://t.co/lCN6sMY5wp

[Rafael Irizarry @rafalab]

We will be posting lectures, homework and other material used in our Introduction to #DataScience course here: https://t.co/6Ou9pcU1Qq

[STAT 545 at UBC @STAT545]

@mikelove @minebocek @rstudio @GitHubEducation I have shared my mildly embarrassing scripts for doing all of this with other folks privately, in case you want them too 😬

[STAT 545 at UBC @STAT545]

STAT545 is recruiting TAs for this fall. Interested UBC grad students should reach out to @ipnosimmia or @VincenzoCoia #rstats

[STAT 545 at UBC @STAT545]

@GalangJS628 encoding problems suck -- good luck!

[Matthew Hankins @mc_hankins]

FUN FACT: Many graduates still use Student's t-test because their employers won't pay for the full t-test licence

[DataCamp @DataCamp]

Hey academics - we've officially launched DataCamp for the Classroom. 100% free. More info here - https://t.co/Cv5JpfFVtr

[STAT 545 at UBC @STAT545]

@emmaz802 thanks! 😄

[Stat Society / Société Stat du Canada @SSC_stat]

SSC 2017: Travel support for Students up to $750! Apply by March 15, 2017 https://t.co/HlVBsvDawM #rstats #statistics #ssc2017wpg

[Titus Brown @ctitusbrown]

We're continuing our two-week workshop on analyzing high throughput sequencing data! https://t.co/vHfNjv4g8G - June 26-July 8th at UC Davis!

[John Myles White @johnmyleswhite]

Social science grad students who aren't 100% sure you'll be professors: make sure your department teaches you how to program.

[Sean Kross @seankross]

I'm writing an open source Introduction to Unix book and the first chapter is finished! You can read it here: https://t.co/mfUYRkbdNt

[Bioconductor @Bioconductor]

@Bioconductor #rstats core team scientific programmer and senior systems analyst jobs! https://t.co/vzU1GfqgoH

[Rafael Irizarry @rafalab]

Harvard's #DataScience Initiative is seeking applications for its inaugural Postdoctoral Fellows Program. https://t.co/A889PC1B4I

[Jenny Bryan @JennyBryan]

.@UBCStatistics hiring 2 data scientists/statisticians in the Applied Statistics and Data Science Group @UBC https://t.co/IPZmAVe8mC #rstats

[ECOSCOPE @ecoscope_ubc]

A New Year is the perfect excuse to learn some new skills! #rstudio #python #statisticalcomputing #UBC