Workshop Schedule

The Health Sciences and Human Services Library (HSHSL) offers the following workshops free of charge to UMB/UMMC faculty, staff and students.

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Data and Bioinformatics

R Workshop Series 01: Introduction to R and RStudio

This session will provide a solid foundation in working with R and RStudio and lay the groundwork to enable participants to explore more advanced topics in R programming. No experience with R or programming is required. Session 1 of 3 in R Workshop Series. Topics covered will include:

Navigating the RStudio interface, installing packages, getting help
Naming and working with objects
Using functions
Identifying R data types and structures
Working with scripts

July 17, 2025 01:00 PM to 04:00 PM (HSHSL - Room LL05) Instructors: Amy Yarnell Christine Nieman Hislop Full - Join Waitlist Full - Join Waitlist
July 23, 2025 01:00 PM to 04:00 PM (HSHSL - Room LL05) Instructors: Amy Yarnell Christine Nieman Hislop Full - Join Waitlist Full - Join Waitlist

R Workshop Series 02: Data Wrangling with R - Introduction to the Tidyverse

This session will introduce the concept of “tidy” data, and the versatile collection of packages known as the Tidyverse. Participants will get hands-on experience wrangling real datasets. Topics covered include:

Importing data from external files
Subsetting and filtering data
Split-Apply-Combine analysis workflow
Creating variables
Joining data tables

Part 2 of 3 in R workshop series.

July 24, 2025 01:00 PM to 04:00 PM (HSHSL - Room LL05) Instructors: Amy Yarnell Christine Nieman Hislop Full - Join Waitlist Full - Join Waitlist
July 30, 2025 01:00 PM to 04:00 PM (HSHSL - Room LL05) Instructor: Amy Yarnell Full - Join Waitlist Full - Join Waitlist

R Workshop Series 03: Data Visualization in R with ggplot2

Learn how to use the ggplot2, a robust Tidyverse package used to create high quality graphics for exploring and communicating your data. We will go beyond basic graphs and learn how to customize and annotate our graphs for more effective storytelling. Participants will have the best experience if they attended session two in this series or have some previous experience with R and the Tidyverse.

Topics covered include:

Visualization best practices
Grammar of graphics
ggplot2 layers, aesthetics, and geoms
Choosing an effective graph type for your data
Customizing labels, axes, legends, and more
Choosing a color palette and themes

Session 3 of 3.

July 31, 2025 01:00 PM to 04:00 PM (HSHSL - Room LL05) Instructors: Amy Yarnell Christine Nieman Hislop Full - Join Waitlist Full - Join Waitlist
August 06, 2025 01:00 PM to 04:00 PM (HSHSL - Room LL05) Instructor: Amy Yarnell Full - Join Waitlist Full - Join Waitlist