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DANG!

Data Analysis Networking Group

Events

See our upcoming and past events below. You can also view our events feed at the UMich Events Calendar.

Many of our events and tutorials are now asynchronous in response to the pandemic. Check out our YouTube channel for the latest videos from the DANG! community.

Past Events

Oct 2020: Organizing Projects for Reproducibility

Monday, Oct 26, 2020 | 4-5pm | Virtual Meeting |

Repro-Packs: Organizing Projects for Reproducibility… and Headache Prevention!

Making your research projects reproducible ensures that anyone, whether that’s another scientist reading your publication or you six months from now, can use the same methods and data to find the same results. Reproducible research is not only a good practice to validate results and to allow others to build off prior work, it also makes your life easier when you need to update software, try out different parameters in a pipeline, or find bugs in your code! A reproducibility package (“repro-pack”, coined by Lorena Barba) is a collection of all the data, code, and figures used to produce the results of a research paper in an automated fashion. We’ll walk through an example of how to organize a project as a repro-pack and share it online so your work will be maximally reproducible.

Presented by Kelly Sovacool

GitHub repo: repro-packs

Sep 2020: BLACK IN MICROBIOLOGY WEEK

Sept. 28 - Oct. 04 | https://blackinmicrobiology.org

Aug 2020: Intro Data Science with Python

Monday, Aug 24, 2020 | 4-5pm | Virtual Meeting | Video Recording

A Gentle Introduction to Data Science with Python

Python is a capable and free (open source) programming language well-suited for analysis of data, including microbiome data. Together, we will go through a real-life example, re-analyzing microbiome - immune checkpoint inhibitor studies. We will touch on both the basics (loading in data, transforming, graphing, basic statistical analysis, and outputting data and figures), and use the examples to compare and contrast with some equivalents in R. This introduction should be suitable for those with no data analysis with code experience, but have some added dimensions for those familiar with R. Presented by Jonathan Golob

GitHub repo: intro-python-16S-analysis

June 2020: Help & Networking Social

Monday, June 22, 2020 | 4-5pm | Virtual meeting

Do you have a problem that you’ve encountered in your analysis but haven’t resolved yet? Have a bug you just can’t seem to squash? Have an analysis idea but don’t know how to do it? We want to help! Use this form to submit a problem you have that we can cover during this session. Bring your code/data OR come to network and help others at this informal help session!

May 2020: Data Science from the Bottom Up

Monday, May 18, 2020 | 4-4:30pm | Virtual meeting

Data Science from the Bottom Up: Computer Memory and Basic Data Structures

How do computers store and organize information? Starting from bits and bytes, we will explore how the most basic units of data are encoded in a computer. We then will look at how computers organize random access memory. Finally we will go over some of the basic data structures used by programs to keep track of information: arrays, linked lists, and hashes.

Data Science from the Bottom Up is a series covering the basics of computer science. How do computers store information? Run calculations? Sort and filter? We start from the silicon and move our way up. Understanding the basics can help you understand better why some code run quickly and some code is slow.

Presented by Jonathan Golob

Apr 2020: Help & Networking Social

Monday, Apr 27, 2020 | 4-5pm | Virtual meeting

Can’t get that graph to look right? Frustrated with data cleaning? Want to squash bugs in your code and help others do the same? Bring your code/data OR come to network and help others at this informal session!

Mar 2020: Viral Community Metagenomics

Monday, Mar 23, 2020 | 4-5pm | Virtual meeting

Introduction to Viral Community Metagenomics

In this presentation, we will go over the steps required to analyze community composition using metagenomics. Topics covered will include read quality control, assembly, binning, and classification. While this talk is framed around analyzing viral communities, the principles also apply to the study of other populations, including bacteria.

Presented by Will Close

GitHub repo: viralMetagenomicsPipeline

Feb 2020: Snakemake

Monday, Feb 24, 2020 | 4-5pm | THSL 2901

Intro to Snakemake

Join us as we learn about snakemake – a workflow management system used to create reproducible and scalable data analyses. We will cover an overview of the snakemake utility and the basics of the framework, create a simple example, and touch on a few key features that make snakemake an excellent choice for building workflows.

Presented by Chris Gates & Travis Saari

Access the materials on GitHub: intro-to-snakemake

Jan 2020: Docker

Monday, Jan 27, 2020 | 4-5pm | 5623 Med Sci II

Intro to Docker

Presented by Jonathan Golob

Dec 2019: Help Desk

Monday, Dec 09, 2019 | 4-5pm | 2901 Taubman Health Sciences Library

Can’t get that graph to look right? Frustrated with data cleaning? Want to flex your skills and help others? Join us for our Holiday Helpdesk on Monday December 9th! Bring your code/data OR come to network and help others at this informal session!

Nov 2019: Looping in R

Monday, Nov 18, 2019 | 4-5pm | 5623 Med Sci II

Looping in R: for loops & the apply family

Come join us to learn about a fundamental coding concept: looping! Core concepts include the basics of for loops, alternatives to for loops in R (vectorization, the apply family), and suggestions on when to use for loops vs. apply statements in R.

Presented by Stephanie Thiede

Access the materials on GitHub: loops-apply-r

Oct 2019: Machine Learning Pipelines in R

Monday, Oct 28, 2019 | 4-5pm | 2903 Taubman Health Sciences Library

Machine Learning Pipelines in R

Join us as we learn how to use the caret R package to develop machine learning (ML) pipelines. Core concepts will include: an overview of ML, best practices for developing ML models, and using caret to develop your own ML models.

Presented by Begüm Topçuoğlu

Access the materials on GitHub: machine-learning-pipelines-r

Sep 2019: Conda on the Cluster

Monday, Sep 23, 2019 | 4-5pm | 2901 Taubman Health Sciences Library

Conda on the Cluster

Come join us as we learn how using Conda can help you better manage programs and create reproducible analysis pipelines while working in any environment, including the new Great Lakes cluster. Core concepts will include: what is Conda, what are best practices for using Conda, and how can you adapt Conda for use in your own research.

Presented by Will Close

Access the materials on GitHub: conda_on_the_cluster

Aug 2019: Making FUNctions in R

Monday, August 26, 2019 | 4-5pm | 5623 Med Sci II

Making FUNctions in R

Presented by Zena Lapp

Access the materials on GitHub: writing-functions-r

July 2019: Help & Networking Social

Monday, July 29, 2019 | 4-6pm | 5623 Med Sci II

Stop by with data analysis questions, meet the DANG! team & community, and grab a snack!

May 2019: An Introduction to Cytoscape

May 20, 2019 | 4-5pm | Room 5623 Med Sci II

An Introduction to Cytoscape: A tool for network visualization

Presented by Justin Joque, PhD - Visualization Librarian

Feb 2019: Transitioning from Flux

Feb 18, 2019 | 4-5pm | Room 5623 Med Sci II

Transitioning from Flux to the new high-performance Great Lakes Cluster

Apr 2019: Literate Programming

Apr 22, 2019 | 4-5pm | Room 5623 Med Sci II

Literate Programming: Creating reproducible reports using RMarkdown

Presented by Zena Lapp

Mar 2019: Making UNIX Yours

Mar 25, 2019 | 4-5pm | Room 5623 Med Sci II

Making UNIX Yours: Improving data analysis workflow through bash customization