The Happy Scientist Seminars are educational seminars sponsored by Core D of the Biostats Program Project award (P01 CA196569). This series, the "Happy Scientist" seminar series, is aimed at providing educational material for members of Biostats, both students and faculty, about a variety of tools and methods that might prove useful to them. If you have any suggestions for subjects that you would like to learn about in future, please send email to Kim Siegmund at (kims@usc.edu). Our agenda will be driven by your specific interests as far as is possible.
Happy Scientist Seminars, 2024: #2
Title: Introduction to Machine Learning and PyTorch: A Guide to Getting Started with AI
Time: 12:00pm-12:50pm, Thursday February 29th 2024
Recording: https://youtu.be/85y1gE_2_P4
Location: Soto (SSB) 114
Materials can be found here
Happy Scientist Seminars, 2024: #1
Title: How I learned to stop worrying and love autodiff
Time: 12:00pm-12:50pm, Thursday February 8th 2024
Recording: https://youtu.be/HNA2wiXqJgc
Location: Soto (SSB) 114
Materials can be found here
Happy Scientist Seminars, 2023: #4
Title: Unlocking the Power of AI: Copilot for R
Time: 12:00pm-12:50pm, Thursday October 12th 2023
Recording: https://youtu.be/ue9A58Gwxn8
Location: Soto (SSB) 114
Materials can be found here
Happy Scientist Seminars, 2023: #3
Title: Building an R package from scratch
Time: 12:00pm-12:50pm, Thursday April 13th 2023
Location: Soto (SSB) 114
Materials can be found here
Happy Scientist Seminars, 2023: #2
Title: Annotation Query (AnnoQ): An integrated and interactive platform for large-scale genetic variant annotation
Time: 12:00pm-1:00pm, Thursday March 9th 2023
Recording: https://youtu.be/6RuDnUBja5A
Location: Soto (SSB) 114
Materials can be found here
Happy Scientist Seminars, 2023: #1
Title: Getting Started with Stan
Time: 12:00pm-12:45pm, Thursday January 26th 2023
Recording: https://youtu.be/8ReBMTIeeYU
Location: Soto (SSB) 114
Materials can be found here
Happy Scientist Seminars, 2021: #2
Title: A git crash course
Time: 12:00pm-1:00pm, Thursday March 18th 2021
Recording: https://youtu.be/6gc8VyZJeNM
Location: Zoom
Materials can be found here
Happy Scientist Seminars, 2021: #1
Title: HPC with slurmR
Time: 12:00pm-1:00pm, Thursday February 18th 2021
Recording: https://youtu.be/ChPGJ7ECVGk
Location: Zoom
Materials can be found here
Git & Github
Happy Scientist Seminars, 2020: #1
Title: Git & Githubs
Time: 12:00pm-1:00pm, Thursday January 23nd 2020
Location: Soto SSB-115/116
Materials can be found here
RStudio and R Resources
Happy Scientist Seminars, 2019: #1
Title: RStudio and R Resources
Time: 12:30pm-1:30pm, Tuesday January 22nd 2019
Location: Soto (SSB) 114
Materials can be found here
Debugging and Profiling
Happy Scientist Seminars, 2019: #2
Title: Debugging and Profiling
Time: 12:00-1:00pm, Tuesday February 19th 2019
Location: Soto (SSB) 116
Materials can be found here
Happy Scientist Seminars, 2019: #3
Title: Building R packages
Time: 12:00pm-1:00pm, Thursday March 28th.
Location: Soto (SSB) 116
Materials can be found here
HPC with Slurm, R, and the slurmR package
Happy Scientist Seminars, 2019: #4
Title: HPC with Slurm, R, and the slurmR package
Time: 12:00pm-1:00pm, Thursday 15th 2019
Location: Soto (SSB) 117
Materials can be found here
How R Markdown helped me thrive in scientific research and advance my career development
Happy Scientist Seminars, 2019: #5
Title: How R Markdown helped me thrive in scientific research and advance my career development
Time: 12:00pm-1:00pm, Thursday 17th 2019
Location: Soto (SSB) 114
Materials can be found here
Research Pipelines
Happy Scientist Seminars, 2019: #6
Title: Research Pipelines
Time: 12:00pm-1:00pm, Thursday 24nd 2019
Location: Soto (SSB) 114
Materials can be found here
#1 An introduction to high-performance computing using R
Happy Scientist Seminars, 2018: #1
Title: An introduction to high-performance computing using R
Time: 10am-11:30am, Thursday March 29th 2018
Location: Soto (SSB) 115/116
Materials can be found here
#2 Introduction to the Tidyverse, pt 1: Data Wrangling with dplyr
Happy Scientist Seminars, 2018: #2.
Title: Introduction to the Tidyverse, pt 1.
Speaker: Malcolm Barrett
Time: 11:45am-1pm, Thursday October 11th.
Location: Soto (SSB) 115/116
Materials can be found here
#3 Introduction to the Tidyverse, pt 2: Data Visualization with ggplot2
Happy Scientist Seminars, 2018: #3.
Title: Introduction to the Tidyverse, pt 2.
Speaker: Malcolm Barrett
Time: 11:45am-1pm, Thurs. October 25th.
Location: Soto (SSB) 115/116, 2001 N. Soto St., USC.
Materials can be found here
#5 A brief introduction to using R for high-performance computing
Happy Scientist Seminar #5:
Title: An introduction to using R for high-performance computing
Time: 12:00noon-1pm, Thursday March 23rd 2017
Where: SSB 115
Materials can be found here
#4 Yet Another "Writing R Packages" tutorial
Happy Scientist Seminar #4:
Title: Yet Another "Writing R Packages" tutorial
Time: 12pm-1pm, Thursday February 9th 2017
Where: SSB 115
Materials can be found here
#3 Building R packages
Happy Scientist Seminar #3:
Title: Building R packages
Time: 1:00-2:30pm, Thursday Dec. 8th 2016
Where: Second floor Soto common area, next to Biostats kitchen
Materials can be found here
#2 Collaborating with GitHub
Happy Scientist Seminar #2:
Title: More on collaborating with GitHub
Time: 1:00-2:30pm, Thursday Nov. 17th 2016
Where: Second floor Soto common area, next to Biostats kitchen
Materials can be found here
#1 Introduction to Collaborating with GitHub
Happy Scientist Seminar #1:
Title: Introduction to Collaborating with GitHub
Time: 1:00-2:30pm, Thursday Oct. 27th 2016
Where: Second floor Soto common area, next to Biostats kitchen
Materials can be found here
New seminars should be included in the following folder using the indicated naming structure.
seminars/
YYYY-ID_name-of-seminar/
README.md
material/ # Everything goes here
slides.html (if available)
slides.pdf (if available)
flyer.pdf