Kuwait University R Workshop Fun Un-Real

كر وفر2016 Workshop organized by:

Hasan Alhaddad (Ph.D.) Suha Alabdulghafour (MSc.)

Bader Alhajeri (Ph.D.) Huda Alaskar (MSc. student)

AIMS

We and you

Small introduction

Day 1 activities

Day 2 activities

Day 3 activities

[R]ing your data

We and You

Instructors

Hasan Alhaddad Assistant professor of genetics

Research Camelid and Feline Genomics

hagenetic.org hhalhaddad@gmail.com

Bader Alhajeri Assistant professor of Zoology

Research Evolution and Ecology Camelid and Rodents

bader.alhajeri@gmail.com

Organizing TeamSuha Alabdulghafour

Teaching Assistant Molecular Biology

Huda Alaskar Graduate Student Molecular Biology

We and You

Tell us something about you Need ideas?

Name

Education

Research interest

Future plans (scientific)

Why a workshop?

Our philosophy

“No serious scientific work can be done in the absence of a vibrant scientific community”

Hasan Alhaddad

We organized it for:

1. Networking

2. Collaborating

3. Training

4. Learning

5. Academic responsibility

6. Have some fun

7. Many other reasons :-)

Why KURwFUR?

ليش كر وفر؟

• Analysis in general and specifically in R may get you frustrated some times.

• To become more productive and not give up after the first challenge, we adopted “Attack and Retreat” strategy.

Analyses going well, Attack

Analyses not going smooth, Retreat

كر وفر

What is R?

https://www.r-project.org/about.html

Why an R workshop?

Why R?

Open source

Free

Big data analyses

Statistics and calculations

Big community

Packages available

Make your package

Me: plots plots plots :-)

Why R?

Number of packages on CRAN

9031

August 28th 2016 11:28 pm

https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/available_packages_by_date.html

Amazing graphs - from yours truly

Why R?

What NOT to expect from the workshop?

NOT to expect

Finish thesis

Finish papers

Finish analyses

Finish dissertation

Become an R expert

What to EXPECT from the workshop?

To expect

1 2 3 30 60

Scared

Confused

Not bad

OK

FUN

Sciecne

KURwFUR Days

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