Virginia
Commonwealth faculty and the non-profit Georgia R School have scheduled two
live, synchronous, interactive, 5-week online jan-feb courses: (1) Fundamentals
of Using R; and (2) Introduction to Graphics with R. Each course is essential
to anyone who intends to use R for any purpose whatsoever. Each course meets
for 3 hours weekly for 4 weeks after an initial ‘pre-session’ orientation
meeting. Early (thru Dec 16) registration cost per course (USD): $195 student;
$250 faculty; and $295 practitioner, includes live participation, all slides,
exercises, data sets, and class materials, and complete, permanent, desktop
recordings of all audio and video from the live, online class sessions.
A PDF description
of the Fundamentals of Using R course is here:
http://georgia-r-school.org/uploads/FUND-SUMMARY.pdf.
The AM and PM
Fundamentals course informational / registration websites are here:
(AM):
https://www.regonline.com/fund-jan-am-2012; and
(PM):
https://www.regonline.com/fund-jan-pm
A PDF description
of the Graphics course is here:
http://www.georgia-r-school.org/uploads/GRAPHICS-SUMMARY.pdf.
The Graphics
course informational / registration website is here: https://www.regonline.com/graphicsam-jan-2012
Please note that
it is our policy to allow no-cost training in R for underserved medical
personnel in developing countries. Most of this training is arranged through
our association with Statistics Without Borders (see below). Contact Geoff for
details.
There is more
information at http://georgia-r-school.org. Please email questions to
[hidden email].
Geoff Hubona,
Ph.D.
Information
Systems Department
Virginia
Commonwealth University
Statistics
Without Borders
Statistics
Without Borders is an non-profit organization under the auspices of the
American Statistical Association, comprised entirely of volunteers, that
provides pro bono statistical consulting and assistance to non-profit
organizations and government agencies in support of health issues (broadly
defined).