This workshop is a 75 minute introduction to the various types of objects used in the R language and basics of programming. We will cover vectors, matrices, data.frames, tibbles, and lists, as well as for loops, while loops, and functions. This is a great workshop for those who have never used R before, as well as experienced R users who work predominantly within the tidyverse.
This workshop is the first in a series of 3 workshops, and will be followed by Intro to R II: Working with Data and Intro to R III: Data Visualization.
The workshop will be hybrid with in-person attendance in Savery 121 and a Zoom link for online attendance will be provided upon registration.
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CSDE Affiliate Joan Casey co-authored an article in The Conversation that details the limitations of current scientific approaches to measuring the “intermittent yet ongoing” exposure to wildfire smoke that many Americans now endure. The article highlights a recent study that proposes a new framework and five metrics which can be used to measure long-term exposure to fine particulate matter from wildfire smoke. Casey’s research linking wildfire smoke to mental health conditions including dementia risk was also mentioned in a recent interview with KQED. Listen here.
NSF GRFP PERSONAL STATEMENT PEER REVIEW WORKSHOP, Wednesday, October 02, 4:30-6:00 pm PST. Register for the 10/02/2023 workshop.
CSDE Affiliate Clara Berridge (Social Work) has been awarded a $777,488 grant to conduct a two-year pilot through the new Massachusetts General Hospital Roybal Center for Behavioral Dyadic Research in Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias, supported by NIA. Berridge, David Huh (Social Work), and other members of the study team at the Clinical Informatics Research Group will conduct an RCT to test mechanisms and outcomes of Let’s Talk Tech, the first tool to help care partners and people living with dementia understand and make decisions about digital health technologies. A goal of this dyadic intervention is to enable families to identify and discuss preferences about technology use held by people living with dementia and mild cognitive impairment and to prepare their care partners to make informed, person-centered decisions in the future. This research will continue to advance scientific knowledge about how to enable empowered shared decision making about digital health technologies in the context of an expanding field of AI-integrated devices.
CSDE External Affiliate David Swanson (UC Riverside) will present a paper entitled Population Aging in the Western Hemisphere: 2020 to 2050 in the virtual track of the annual meeting of the Fulbright Association on November 8. The paper finds that the Western Hemisphere is facing a significant increase in the population aged 65 years and over, which is expected to more than double between 2020 and 2050. In addition to the findings about upcoming demographic changes, the paper discusses policy implications of these changes for the Western Hemisphere and its multiple regions. Learn more about the conference here.
Professor Audrey Dorélien has joined CSDE’s leadership team as the new Training Core PI! Dr. Dorélien is a new faculty member in the Sociology Department at UW and is a CSDE Research Affiliate as well. She previously taught at the University of Minnesota’s Hubert H. Humphrey School of Public Affairs for 10 years. Her research agenda strives to elucidate how human population dynamics and behavior intersect with environmental conditions to affect health. Her recent work analyzes the effects of early life exposures (especially seasonal factors) on child health in sub-Saharan Africa and the United States. Another current strand of research describes and analyzes contact patterns (age pattern of social contacts, and age-specific contact matrices showing whom interacts with whom) in the United States. The latter has important implications for the study and control of infectious diseases, such as influenza, measles, and COVID-19. She also has conducted research on spatial demography/ urbanization with a focus on implications for health and climate change vulnerability. Her research has appeared in Population Development Review, Demography, Journal of Urban Health, Population Health Metrics, Demographic Research, Biodemography and Social Biology, Journal of Hypertension, Journal of Affective Disorders, and PLoS ONE. Reach out to Dr. Dorélien for about our T32 fellowship and other opportunities for trainees.