Classes & Events

It's Love Data Week ! Join us for a 30-minute session designed for researchers to explore the Dryad data platform. In this session, you’ll learn: When—and why—Dryad is the choice for your research data What to expect when submitting to Dryad, from start to finish How submission automation and curation save time and improve ...

R is a popular statistical computing programming language used to explore data and make plots. In this class, participants without any background in programming will learn the basics of the R programming language and use it to explore simple data sets. At the end of this class, participants will be able ...

                                           WiDS Stanford @ Lane Medical Library is independently organized by Lane Medical Library to be part of the mission to increase the participation of women in data science and to feature outstanding ...

Part 2 of this interactive, hands-on session builds on what participants learned in Part 1, and it continues to expand foundational programming skills and practical applications of Python that students can apply in the context of their own work. Learning objectives: 1) automate tasks with loops; 2) perform conditional operations; ...

This class is a continuation of Part 1, and participants will build on their knowledge and skills acquired in Part 1. R is a popular statistical computing programming language used to explore data and make plots. In this class, participants without any background in programming will learn the basics of ...

Event Details: This month we are joined by Ayako Kawano, a PhD candidate in the Emmett Interdisciplinary Program in Environment and Resources at Stanford. Ayako’s research examines the impact of air pollution on population health and climate change in low- and middle-income countries using remote sensing data and machine learning methods. ...

Visualization Is a key part of exploring and understanding patterns within data sets. This session introduces matplotlib, a popular library used to make scientific plots in Python. The purpose of this session is to provide a simple introduction to the matplotlib interface and to create two simple plots to visualize ...

R is a popular statistical computing programming language used to explore data and make plots. In this class, participants without any background in programming will learn the basics of the R programming language and use it to explore simple data sets. At the end of this class, participants will be able ...

This course equips healthcare researchers and professionals with the skills to navigate the evolving landscape of open science. Topics include NIH open science policies, grants supporting open-access publishing, strategies for identifying and selecting open-access journals, and managing and sharing data for compliance and impact. Through interactive discussions and hands-on exercises, ...

This is Part 2 of our Scientific Data Visualization class. This session builds on Part 1, and participants continue to learn how to use matplotlib and different ways of visualizing data. The code that is developed in this course can be used on data in other contexts. At the end of ...

This class is a continuation of Part 1, and participants will build on their knowledge and skills acquired in Part 1. R is a popular statistical computing programming language used to explore data and make plots. In this class, participants without any background in programming will learn the basics of ...