These courses aim to provide beginners with an introduction to programming and computing languages (e.g. Python, R, Unix) and introductory data science skills.
For all of these courses, the focus is always on how to use programming languages and best practices to solve research problems.
Data analysis in R
The R programming language is one of the leading languages in the field of data science. It’s widely used for data visualisation, analyses, statistics and machine learning.
It is open-source software and all the software we use during the course is free. This course is aimed to provide an introduction to R, focussing on exploratory data analysis and visualisation. By the end of this course you will be able to read in, analyse, interpret and visualise data.
For additional information and to register your interest, follow this link.
Data analysis in Python
The Python programming language is one of the leading languages in the field of data science. It’s widely used for data visualisation, analyses, statistics and machine learning.
It is open-source software and all the software we use during the course is free. This course is aimed to provide an introduction to Python, focussing on exploratory data analysis and visualisation. By the end of this course you will be able to read in, analyse, interpret and visualise data.
For additional information and to register your interest, follow this link.
Introduction to the Unix command line
Using the Linux operating system and the bash command line interface, we will demonstrate the basic structure of the UNIX operating system and how we can interact with it using a basic set of commands. Applying this, we will learn how to navigate the filesystem, manipulate text-based data and structure simple pipelines out of these commands.
For additional information and to register your interest, follow this link.
Working on HPC clusters
The course aims to give an introductory overview of High Performance Computing (HPC) in general, and of the facilities of the High Performance Computing Service (HPCS) available at the University of Cambridge.
For additional information and to register your interest, follow this link.
You may also find the following links useful:
Programming Courses at the Computing Service
Unix Training at the Computing Service