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IPR Workshops

IPR Workshops

IPR R Workshops

R is a language and environment for data manipulation, calculation and graphical display. The term “environment” is intended to characterize it as a fully planned and coherent system of data analysis software.

This year the guiding theme for the R working group sessions will be the use of computational methods and data in demography, which begs the question “what is computational demography”? The exact definition is most likely up for negotiation, but we suggest that it involves conducting research with new sources of data, as well as using new methods to analyze traditional data (Kashyap et.al., 2023). Delving into these new areas can be greatly enhanced with additional skills more closely associated with computer science. 

These ideas motivate the topics we will cover, with fall semester laying the foundation and spring semester diving deeper into particular applications and topics. We will also rework “the classics” to add more of a computation slant on the material. 

New to Spring 2026 will be the insight of Neel Agarwal B.S., second year medical student, to give a healthcare and big-data lens as well as teach real-world applications and ground sessions in practical applications to enhance your research, QI projects, or even hobbyist works.

Spring 2026 workshops will generally be offered every other Friday, February 6 – April 24, from 12:00 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. in IPR’s conference space, Townshend Hall, room 038 and via Zoom. See details below.

Spring 2026 R Workshops

February 6: Introduction to R & Computational methods in Demography (with a healthcare big data analysis twist)

February 20: Exploring and Preparing Data with dplyr, tidyverse and Healthcare Analysis 1

February 27: Making Plots in R with ggplot2 & AI Integration 1

March 6: Web Scraping with R with rvest and rselenium & AI Integration 2

March 20: Text Analysis – data preparation with tidytext

April 3: Text Analysis II – topic modeling, Healthcare Analysis 2

April 24: Machine Learning and Imputation using missForest and parallelize

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Contact: Please contact Neel Agarwal and Jason Thomas to be added to our listserv where most of the communication for the workshops takes place.

IPR Special Topics Seminars

The IPR Special Topics Seminar are interactive seminars designed to provide the latest tips and techniques to increase research rigor and efficiency, encourage collaboration, and support applications for external funding. Seminars will be posted as they are scheduled. 

For questions and suggestions, contact IPR Associate Director Kammi Schmeer.