General Information:

This workshop is hosted by the SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics and the Institute of Molecular Life Sciences at the University of Zurich (UZH).

Data Carpentry workshops are for any researcher who has data they want to analyze, and no prior computational experience is required. This hands-on workshop teaches basic concepts, skills and tools for working more effectively with data.

We will cover Data organization in spreadsheets; Command line, Introduction to R, Data analysis in R and Data visualization in R. Participants should bring their laptops and plan to participate actively. By the end of the workshop learners should be able to more effectively manage and analyze data and be able to apply the tools and approaches directly to their ongoing research.

Who: The course is aimed at graduate students and other researchers with little to no R experience.

Where: Winterthurerstrasse 190 (Irchel campus), Room Y34-J-01.

Requirements: Participants must bring a laptop with a Mac, Linux, or Windows operating sytem (not a tablet, Chromebook, etc.) that they have administrative privileges on. They should have a few specific software packages installed (listed below). They are also required to abide by Data Carpentry's Code of Conduct.

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