Meetings

2023

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 …
Jan 30, 2023 12:00 PM — 1:00 PM West Hall 411
Code Slides

2021

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 …
Mar 18, 2021 1:00 PM — 2:00 PM Remote

2020

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 …
Dec 2, 2020 10:30 AM — 11:30 AM Remote
PDF Code Slides

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 …
Oct 8, 2020 10:30 AM — 11:30 AM Remote

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 …
Mar 10, 2020 1:00 PM — 3:00 PM West Hall 411
Resources

Statistical Computing in MacOS

This meetings is focused on statistical computing on MacOS. Potential topics include setting up Homebrew, LaTeX, R, the terminal, and …
Feb 18, 2020 1:00 PM — 3:00 PM West Hall 411
Resources

LaTeX discussion

The topic of the first meeting will be a collaborative discussion about LaTeX, so we encourage you to come and share any interesting …
Feb 4, 2020 1:00 PM — 3:00 PM West Hall 411
Resources

2019

Stan

‘‘Stan is a state-of-the-art platform for statistical modeling and high-performance statistical computation. Thousands of …
Nov 20, 2019 2:30 PM — 3:30 PM West Hall 411

Navigating the Transition from Flux to Great Lakes: New tools and policy town hall

Effective computing is a key component of many statistics workflows. The statistics department offers its graduate students access to a …
Nov 14, 2019 1:00 PM — 2:00 PM West Hall 411

Accelerating Python using Cython

‘‘Cython is an optimising static compiler for both the Python programming language and the extended Cython programming …
Nov 6, 2019 2:30 PM — 3:30 PM West Hall 411

The Julia language

‘‘Julia in a Nutshell—Julia is fast! Julia was designed from the beginning for high performance. Julia programs …
Oct 23, 2019 2:30 PM — 3:30 PM East Quadrangle 1405

Building & Hosting a Simple Academic Website

In a workshop-type presentation, you will learn how to build a simple academic personal website based on the Academic theme by the Hugo …
Oct 9, 2019 2:30 PM — 3:30 PM West Hall 411
Slides Workshop

Git: a deeper perspective

While there are many online tutorials on how to use git, few attemp to teach what really happens behind the common commands. …
Oct 2, 2019 2:30 PM — 3:30 PM East Quadrangle 1405
Slides

Informational meeting & Functional Programming in R with purrr

Presentation of the Computing club and discussion of its purpose and means. Presentation of the R package purrr for functional …
Sep 18, 2019 2:30 PM — Sep 23, 2019 3:30 PM West Hall 470
Club slides purrr introduction purrr slides Rmd source