Data Matters: Spring Ahead 2023

Data Matters™ is a week-long series of one and two-day courses aimed at students and professionals in business, research, and government. The short course series is sponsored by the Odum Institute for Research in Social Science at UNC-Chapel Hill, the National Consortium for Data Science, and RENCI.

Our first-ever springtime series, Data Matters: Spring Ahead, will feature a selection of our most popular two-day courses. The traditional Data Matters series will return in August 2023.

Held virtually via Zoom, Data Matters gives students the chance to learn about a wide range of topics in data science, analytics, visualization, curation, and more from expert instructors.

Courses

Introduction to Effective Information Visualization
Basics of R for Data Science and Statistics
Introduction to Programming in R
Introduction to Programming Using Python

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COVID-19: What's Next?

Please join the UNC Network of Research Professionals and Myron Cohen, MD, Director, Institute for Global Health and Infectious Diseases, for a discussion of the progress we have made since 2020 regarding the COVID-19 pandemic, and the work we still have left to do.

- Provide latest updates and strategies to protect yourself and your communities

- Describe approved, and next stage investigational treatments and trials

- Current and future impact of COVID-19 on the research agenda

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NC BERD Consortium: Rethinking Race-Ethnicity: Introducing Novel Survey-Based Measures of Lifetime Experience of Discrimination and Stress

Though race-ethnicity is not a biological variable, race-ethnicity is included in nearly every medical study and often very statistically & meaningfully significant. New measures are critically needed that will allow biomedical researchers to disentangle race-ethnicity from the true individual, interpersonal, and structural causes of health disparities. In this talk, we introduce novel measures using simple survey items to capture self-reported experience of discrimination and stress spanning the life course, agnostic to source. Early results from an employee survey will presented.

Speaker:
Felicity Enders, PhD, MPH
Professor of Biostatistics
Consultant, Department of Quantitative Health Sciences
Mayo Clinic College of Medicine & Science

This event is sponsored by the North Carolina BERD Consortium (Duke University School of Medicine, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, and Wake Forest School of Medicine) and the Wake Forest Department of Biostatistics & Data Science.