Key Info and Announcements
Announcements
- Burritos and bunnies this Wednesday at 12pm!
- Wednesday’s class on missing data
- Best experience in-person, async will still give you info, but sync and virtual will be hard
- We have group work!
- Quiz 3 scores are up!
- 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
- Check out my reference on making a forest plot!
- Poster instructions are up!!
- My focus is on:
- Can you concisely describe your analysis process?
- Come to office hours and ask for edits on these!!
- Correct interpretations
- ORs and interactions for purposeful model selection
- Most important variables for LASSO
- Can you discuss limitations and importance of work?
- Critically think about the decisions we made on the sample, analysis, variables, etc.
- What might be the consequences of those decisions?
- Critically think about the decisions we made on the sample, analysis, variables, etc.
- Can you concisely describe your analysis process?
- EXTRA CREDIT for
- My focus is on:
Recurring
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
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.
Bunnies & Burritos
Please join the SPH Student Success Center on Wednesday, June 3rd from Noon-2pm on the 6th floor in Vanport for our 3rd Annual Bunnies & Burritos event. Come take a break from your busy term and hold a bunny, grab a burrito, and connect with SPH students, faculty, and staff. We look forward to celebrating all your hard work and accomplishments this year!
Please RSVP by May 27th, 2026 for food ordering purposes!
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
Fall internship at Boehringer Ingelheim
Global Biostatistics & Data Sciences in Boehringer Ingelheim currently has a Fall Co-Op internship position open for both Master and PhD students. The internship is well suited for students with strong backgrounds in statistics, biostatistics, data science, or related quantitative fields, and it offers exposure to real‑world data analysis and statistical applications in pharmaceutical research and drug development.
Key Dates
- Quiz 3 opens 05/27
- Closes 05/31
- HW 4 due 05/31
- Project poster DAY on 06/08
- Poster due 06/09