NUMBAT Workshops

About

These workshops are designed to help develop data analysis and computing skills in the Monash and broader community. Workshops will be hands-on and primarily focus on using R. Most workshops will be hybrid, in-person for the Monash community and also with the possibility to join on zoom. They will be taught by experts on the topics from the NUMBATs group.

Workshops are organised along three themes:

  • Learning from data: extracting data from various sources, tidying, wrangling, modelling, analysis, exploratory data graphics.
  • Data science productivity: reproducibility, collaboration, literate programming, efficient coding, sharing code.
  • Communicating with data: effective visualisation, storytelling, engineering interactive web apps, publishing software.

Workshops are also grade on three levels:

  • Beginner: A basic knowledge of R, and using RStudio, is all that is needed to understand the content.
  • Intermediate: Along with a basic knowledge, some additional experience such as comfortable with the content of R4DS.
  • Advanced: This level is for experienced analysts wishing to advanced their level of understanding on particular specialty areas.

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If you have requests for topics to be covered, you can provide this feedback through this sheet.

Schedule for 2025

Date Time Register Title Instructor Room Category
2/5/2025 1:00-4:30 Sign up Tidy time series analysis and forecasting Mitchell O'Hara-Wild 317 Education Blg, 29 Ancora Imparo Way, Clayton Learning from data Beginner
late May 2025 TBA Take a data plot and make it better Di Cook TBA Communicating with data Beginner
Jun-25 TBA Levelling up your Quarto Skills Cynthia Huang TBA Data science productivity Intermediate
Jul-25 TBA Visual data exploration Di Cook TBA Learning from data Intermediate
Aug-25 TBA Packaging and sharing your code Michael Lydeamore TBA Data science productivity Intermediate
Sep-25 TBA Developing a shiny app for communicating your data analysis on the web Mitchell O'Hara-Wild TBA Communicating with data Intermediate
Oct-25 TBA TBA TBA TBA Learning from data NA
Nov-25 TBA Turning your software into a publication Di Cook TBA Data science productivity Intermediate

You can add the full range of NUMBAT events to your calendar via iCal or Google calendar.

Self-paced materials

The web resource https://startr.numbat.space provides these self-paced learning modules:

  • Getting started with R
  • Tidy data analysis
  • Statistical modelling
  • Quarto basics, for reproducible publications

Other workshops

Monash

eResearch maintains a list of other groups offering workshops and links to the workshops on campus. These are primarily run by eResearch and the Monash Bioinformatics Platform. The eResearch newsletter provides regular details, also.

Elsewhere

The Statistical Society of Australia, in particular the Statistical Computing and Visualisation Section, regularly run workshops which are listed on their events page.