PAG: Group Meetings

While we focus on answering questions related to enrollment, we know an implied mission is assisting in the development of those that want to do similar work. To this end, we hold twice-a-week group meetings where we discuss

Relevant research articles
Application of function-specific applications
Examples of new (to us) coding methods
Our research success and setbacks

We invite and welcome those outside of our group to join our meetings. Please contact Emilio for the Zoom link.

Group Meeting Schedule

Group Meeting are on Tuesdays and Thursdays and we start at 3p and end between 4p and 4:30p. Our Group Meeting schedule is loose. Each meeting starts with a quick “stand-up” where everyone gets five minutes to briefly say…

what they are working on
one thing causing grief
one victory

The meetings are informal discussions on current projects and help overcoming coding obstacles. We meet at the Blue Owl Coffee in East Lansing, Google Map.

Group Meeting Topics

Fall/2023 Meetings

Meetings now take place in-person at the Blue Owl Coffee in East Lansing, Google Map. The meetings are informal discussions on current projects and help overcoming coding obstacles.

Spring/2023 Meetings

12/Jan/2023 (Thursday): Welcome back! Introduction to Asana.
17/Jan/2023 (Tuesday): Paper work, plans for the coming semester, and official start of the book club (see below).
19/Jan/2023 (Thursday): Reading day
24/Jan/2023 (Tuesday): Introduction to the HPCC (Thank you Seth!)
26/Jan/2023 (Thursday): (Re)Introduction to GitHub and theHUB. The basics of writing R functions: 1. Make it work, 2. Make it clear, 3. Make it fast-ish.
31/Jan/2023 (Tuesday): Cleaning up last year’s code and making it reproducible.
02/Feb/2023 (Thursday): Book club meeting! Meet at the Blue Owl Coffee in East Lansing, Google Map.

Book Club

Book club is structured professional development. The goal is to gain knowledge and insight to current projects through the perspective of someone else.

Spring/2023: We are reading Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy by Cathy O’Neil (Bookshop | Amazon | Apple Books) to better understand how the data, analysis, and models we create impacts others.

Fall/2022 Meetings