University of Michigan Statistics & Biostatistics Computing Club

The Computing Club is a platform for PhD students from both department to learn, teach, share and discuss various topics related to Statistical computing.

The Club organizes regular meetings, typically in the form of informal presentation, focusing on a particular topic.

In addition to the meetings, the Club also maintains a Slack workspace where students can help each other and share information!

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Upcoming Meetings

Experiment Management with batchtools (R) and pypet (Python)

Statistics research often requires some embarrassingly parallel computations: you might want to apply your method to a sequence of …

News

Biostatistics Expansion & Slack Workspace

The Computing Club is proud to announce its expansion to the Biostatistcs department! The Club will now hold joint meetings with PhD …

Welcome to the Computing club's new website

With the recent creation of the Statistics Computing Club, having a platform to share news, contents and resources was a priority. The …

Past Meetings

A Discussion of Advanced GitHub Usage, Including Actions

This week’s seminar is hosted by the UM Statistics Computing Club. Join for an informal discussion of GitHub and some its more …

Speeding up R with C/C++/Fortran

R is a great language for statisticians because of its interactivity, simple syntax and access to multiple libraries produced by the …

Git's a Wonderful Life

Whether you’re analyzing data, developing an R package, or even writing your dissertation, chances are you’re editing text …

Package development and testing in R

This meeting is focused on package development, with a particular emphasis on writing tests to ensure code is error-free. The …

Statistical Computing in MacOS

This meetings is focused on statistical computing on MacOS. Potential topics include setting up Homebrew, LaTeX, R, the terminal, and …

UMSBCC Organizers