Key Info and Announcements

Modified

June 3, 2026

Announcements

  • Please, please, please check your grades!
  • Make sure you have your poster printed and ready to go by the day of the poster session
    • I have meeting at 12pm, so I cannot help with last minute printing eek
  • I will have additional, virtual office hours on Friday from 10-11am
  • Sheetal needs to move her office hours from Friday
    • Choose preference in today’s exit ticket

 

Key Dates

  • Project poster DAY on 06/08
  • Poster due 06/09 at 11pm
  • ALL CLASS ASSIGNMENTS DUE 06/12 at 11pm

Recurring Announcements

Summer or Fall TA opportunities

You can become a TA or grader for SPH classes!

  • Paid position
  • Apply here
  • Some extra intel
    • It says Summer and Fall only, but Fall TAs often carry over into Winter and Spring

Visual Thinking and Data Visualization for Clinical Research

Link to site

This highly interactive session presents ways to use visual thinking to strengthen research and scientific communication. In order to visualize data well, we have to understand our research deeply. Likewise, in order to understand our research deeply, we need to be able to visualize it well. Centered around a graph makeover, the talk presents three real-world design principles that can clarify both data visualization and critical thinking.

Kate Miller is Director of the Visual Thinking and Data Visualization Program at the Quantitative Sciences Unit at Stanford Medical School, as well as a Senior Biostatistician there. She uses visual thinking every day in her collaborative work with clinical research teams.

R Cascadia Conference

R conference in Portland!! on 6/26-6/27 https://cascadiarconf.com/

  • ~$50 for in-person
  • For the PNW, so good networking for semi-local opportunities