Training

Training

The SCF periodically offers in-person workshops and also provides online self-study tutorials on topics related to statistical computing. A quick reference list is provided here.

Training Topic Last Updated
Tutorial Basic introduction to the UNIX command line December 2021
Tutorial Introduction to LaTeX August 2015
Tutorial Dynamic documents with code chunks August 2023
Tutorial Introduction to git and GitHub August 2017
Tutorial Using the bash shell June 2022
Tutorial String processing in R and Python August 2023
Tutorial Parallel processing in R, Python, Julia, Matlab, and C/C++, including GPU use March 2024
Tutorial Flexible parallel processing using Dask in Python and future in R September 2023
Tutorial Working with large datasets in SQL, R, and Python March 2024
Tutorial Using make for workflows August 2015
Tutorial Writing efficient R code September 2022
Tutorial Debugging in R September 2022
Workshop Introduction to SQL and databases January 2023
Workshop Introduction to R August 2023
Workshop Introduction to Python August 2023
Workshop Introduction to the Savio campus cluster (for biostat) March 2016
Workshop Using Spark November 2014
Workshop Parallel computing November 2016
Workshop GPU computation February 2016
Workshop C++ and creating R packages May 2013
Tutorial Computing in the cloud March 2014