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.

Schedule

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

Make a suggestion

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

Tentative plan for 2025

  • Apr: Learning from data - Forecasting (Mitch O’Hara-Wild)
  • May: Communicating with data - Take a data plot and make it better (Di Cook)
  • Jun: Data science productivity - Quarto presentations, notebooks and papers (Cynthia Huang)
  • Jul: Learning from data - Visual data exploration (Di Cook)
  • Aug: Data science productivity - Packaging your code (Michael Lydeamore)
  • Sep: Communicating with data - Developing a shiny app (Mitch O’Hara-Wild, Janith Wanniarachchi)
  • Oct: Learning from data - ??
  • Nov: Data science productivity - Turning your software into a publication (Di Cook)

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.