STAT 545 at UBC

Full disclosure: tweets from this account will be a mix of interesting data science stuff and STAT 545A / STAT 547M course minutiae.

Students - take a break from the textbooks. My fellow @azureadvocates and I are coming to your campus to teach you some real world #cloud development. It'll be fun 😀 @UBC 4/3 @HowardU 4/5 @UTAustin 4/9 @USC 4/10 @UCBerkeley 4/11 @UW 4/17 Register here: aka.ms/azureutoursign…

@norcalbiostat This section highlights importance of rendering Rmd to md AND committing + pushing the any related figs #output-format" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">happygitwithr.com/rmd-test-drive…

We will be posting lectures, homework and other material used in our Introduction to #DataScience course here: datasciencelabs.github.io

@mikelove @minebocek @rstudio @GitHubEducation I have shared my mildly embarrassing scripts for doing all of this with other folks privately, in case you want them too 😬

STAT545 is recruiting TAs for this fall. Interested UBC grad students should reach out to @ipnosimmia or @VincenzoCoia #rstats

@GalangJS628 encoding problems suck -- good luck!

FUN FACT: Many graduates still use Student's t-test because their employers won't pay for the full t-test licence

Hey academics - we've officially launched DataCamp for the Classroom. 100% free. More info here - bit.ly/2l7ZtLU

@emmaz802 thanks! 😄

SSC 2017: Travel support for Students up to $750! Apply by March 15, 2017 ow.ly/w47M308KDKW #rstats #statistics #ssc2017wpg

We're continuing our two-week workshop on analyzing high throughput sequencing data! ivory.idyll.org/blog/2017-dibs… - June 26-July 8th at UC Davis!

Social science grad students who aren't 100% sure you'll be professors: make sure your department teaches you how to program.

I'm writing an open source Introduction to Unix book and the first chapter is finished! You can read it here: github.com/seankross/the-…

@Bioconductor #rstats core team scientific programmer and senior systems analyst jobs! support.bioconductor.org/p/91548/

Harvard's #DataScience Initiative is seeking applications for its inaugural Postdoctoral Fellows Program. datascience.harvard.edu/funding-opport…

.@UBCStatistics hiring 2 data scientists/statisticians in the Applied Statistics and Data Science Group @UBC stat.ubc.ca/statistical-co… #rstats

A New Year is the perfect excuse to learn some new skills! #rstudio #python #statisticalcomputing #UBC