Dr Stevie Pederson
Black Ochre Data Labs
Indigenous Genomics Group
The Kids Research Institute Australia
July 8-10, 2025
This will be a three day course to enable researchers to develop their
capabilities using the language R. Beginners are welcome and
intermediate users will also gain a great deal from attending.
Data for the workshop is available as a zip file here. We will explain where to place this data and how to structure directories in the opening sessions.
Installation and package requirements are here
| Day 1 | Topic | Notes | Estimated Duration (approx) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8:30 | Installation Help | 30min | |
| 9:00 | Welcome & Housekeeping | 10min | |
| 9:15 | Welcome To Country | 15min | |
| 9:30 | Introducing R & RStudio | Introduction | 50min |
| Importing Spreadsheet-Like Data | Importing Penguins | 60min | |
| 10:30 | Morning Tea | ||
| 11:00 | Exploring Spreadsheet-Like Data | Exploring Penguins | 60min |
| Building Chains Of Code | Piping Functions | 40min | |
| 12:30 | Lunch | ||
| 1:30 | Reshaping Data With tidyr |
Reshaping Data | 30min |
Visualising Your Data with ggplot2 |
Introductory Visualisation | 120min | |
| 3:00 | Afternoon Tea | ||
Visualising Your Data with ggplot2 (continued) |
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| 4:30 | Day 1 Challenges | Day1 | 30min |
| Day 2 | Topic | Notes | Estimated Duration (approx) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9:00 | Vectors and Data Structures in R |
Data Types | 90min |
| 10:30 | Morning Tea | ||
| 11:00 | Working With Text | Working With Text | 80min |
| 12:30 | Lunch | ||
| 1:30 | Basic Statistical Analysis | Basic Statistics | 40min |
| Linear Regression | Linear Regression | 150min | |
| 3:00 | Afternoon Tea | ||
| 3:30 | Linear Regression (continued) |
| Day 3 | Topic | Notes | Estimated Duration (approx) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9:00 | Using Rmarkdown | RMarkdown | 80min |
| 10:30 | Morning Tea | ||
| 11:00 | Functions | Functions | 50min |
| Iteration | Iteration | 40min | |
| 12:30 | Lunch | ||
| 1:30 | Moving Beyond Linear Regression | Extending Statistics | 40min |
| Extending Visualisation | Extending Visualisation | 60min | |
| 3:00 | Afternoon Tea | ||
| 3:30 | Final Challenges | 90min |