This repository holds descriptions and resources associated with collaborative, community-focused data science groups at Fred Hutch sponsored by the Fred Hutch Bioinformatics and Data Science Cooperative (The Coop).
For more information on groups and other events hosted by the Coop, please see our webpage and the training page on the Fred Hutch Biomedical Data Science Wiki.
Current groups include:
If you have an idea for a new group, please look at our guidelines.
Weekly meeting to discuss data visualization and create visualizations from the dataset released each week by R for Data Science.
The Python User Group meets weekly to discuss programming, data analysis, and troubleshooting in python as well as dedicate one meeting a month to general software development; topics will be announced ahead of time. Bring your lunch, code, questions, and thoughts! Python coders of all levels of expertise are welcome. Contact the Coop (coophelp at fredhutch.org) for more information. Additionally, check out the #python-user-comm channel on the Coop Communities Slack and our other training and community resources at Training, Community and Finding Help . Current meeting schedules and locations are available on the Google calendar.
The R User Group meets weekly to discuss programming, data analysis, and troubleshooting in R. Bring your lunch, code, questions, and thoughts! R coders of all levels of expertise are welcome. Contact the Coop (coophelp at fredhutch.org) for more information. Additionally, check out the #r-user-comm channel on the Coop Communities Slack and our other training and community resources at Training, Community and Finding Help . Note: If you do not have a laptop available to you we still want you to come!! You can email code privately ahead of each event to Amy Paguirigan (apaguiri at fredhutch.org). Current meeting schedules and locations are available on the Google calendar.
Monthly meeting to discuss and troubleshoot Shiny applications.
All of our groups were created because of the needs voiced by our community. Sometimes those needs change, and we're happy to respond by refocusing our efforts. The following groups have been retired, but are noted here for reference purposes:
Software DevelopmentMonthly meeting to discuss software design and development. Discussions about this topic are now included periodically in the Python User Group
The Coop is happy to support formation of new community groups related to data science activities. We ask that you answer a few questions to guide your planning process:
- What are the goals of your group?
- Who is interested in participating
- Who will lead/facilitate the group?
- How often do you want to meet? Some groups meet weekly, every other week, or on the first/second/etc day of the month.
It may help to look at some of the information about existing groups to help get an idea of what has been working for our community so far. You can also post in the Coop Community Slack to gauge interest in the community. Once you are committed to the meeting details, contact one of the Coop team members with the following information:
- Title (e.g., "Python coding group")
- Description (e.g., "Any Python users (beginner to advanced) are welcome to attend this session and to talk about programming and data analysis in Python. Bring your lunch, your code questions, and your thoughts! Contact this person for more information.")
- Open or closed? We prefer community groups to be open to everyone. If you request a group to be closed, we'll add "[closed]" to the title.
- Who is the point of contact? We'll need someone to help answer questions about scheduling, etc.
- Time and date of the first meeting, and the continued schedule (so we can put a repeat on calendars)
We'll use this information to:
- post to the Google and Outlook calendars (we usually don't add community groups to CenterNet)
- announce in our monthly newsletter and on Slack
- list on our webpage and the training page on the Fred Hutch Biomedical Data Science Wiki.