CCB is happy to provide computational and data science resources for HMS graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, research staff, and faculty across all departments of the HMS quadrangle.
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This course introduces Git and GitHub and covers topics including: Getting Started with Git for version control, Using GitHub Desktop effectively, Collaborating with others on GitHub, and Utilizing GitHub Flow for better workflow. No previous exposure is assumed. We hope attendees will leave the class with the knowledge and tools necessary to start integrating Git […]
This workshop covers key design principles to guide your choices on color, graph type, etc. when making data visualizations. After looking at a wide variety of examples of charts and […]
Drop in any time during the hour to ask your data management questions! Countway's Data Services Librarian will be ready to support you. Get help with: Data Management Plans -- […]
This workshop provides all of the information you need to get started working with ESRI ArcGIS Pro and the ArcGIS Online suite of software-as-a-service (SAAS) tools and data at Harvard. […]
Python is a powerful open-source programming language. In this 3 hour, hands-on workshop, we will teach basic concepts and bioinformatics applications in Python. We will learn the Python syntax, data structures, functions, data manipulation, and data visualization. By the end of the workshop, students will understand and write simple Python scripts, and be able to […]
SPECIAL: The Center for Computational Biomedicine (CCB) is hosting a joint seminar series with the Image Analysis Collaboratory (IAC) at Harvard Medical School with a focus on best practices and leading tools for quantitative analysis of biomedical images. Title: CCB Seminar Series Speaker: Jonathan Foster, PhD, Chief Technical Officer @Glue solutions, Inc Topic: Glue Genes: Exploratory Data […]
This in-person workshop will introduce participants to basic concepts related to gene regulation followed by a description of three common approaches used to interrogate chromatin biology: ChIP-seq, CUT&RUN and ATAC-seq. This in-person workshop will introduce participants to basic concepts related to gene regulation followed by a description of three common approaches used to interrogate chromatin […]
In this workshop, you will leave with a strong foundational understanding of the building blocks of GIS. Included in this introduction are the distinction between various GIS software, methods, and data. This introduction will break down the core data types for geospatial data, and you will leave with a strong understanding of how GIS data […]
This in-person workshop will introduce participants to basic concepts related to gene regulation followed by a description of three common approaches used to interrogate chromatin biology: ChIP-seq, CUT&RUN and ATAC-seq. This in-person workshop will introduce participants to basic concepts related to gene regulation followed by a description of three common approaches used to interrogate chromatin […]
This in-person workshop will introduce participants to basic concepts related to gene regulation followed by a description of three common approaches used to interrogate chromatin biology: ChIP-seq, CUT&RUN and ATAC-seq. This in-person workshop will introduce participants to basic concepts related to gene regulation followed by a description of three common approaches used to interrogate chromatin […]
This hands-on workshop will cover the basics of data visualization using Seaborn (https://seaborn.pydata.org), a library for the Python programming language. We will cover how to create plots using numeric and categorical data, as well as the creation of multi-panel figures for data exploration and presentation. Instructor: James Adams, Manager of Research and Data Services, Harvard Kennedy School Pre-class […]
R Basics: R is a simple programming environment that enables the effective handling of data, while providing excellent graphical support. RStudio is a tool that provides a user-friendly environment for working with R. This workshop gives participants an overview of the basics of the R programming language and RStudio Register Here!