Microbiome workshop 2017
In August of 2017 We held a two day workshop on Microbiome Science for 30 ARS participants. The workshop had training for analyzing amplicon and metagenome data and focused on building a community of practice within ARS around microbiome science. We are now organizing an ARS Microbiome Community to coordinate information sharing and collaboration.
Machine Learning workshop August 2019
In August 2019 I organized a two-day Machine Learning workshop in collaboration with the UF Carpentries Club for for 50 ARS UF and USDA-ARS Scientists and UF. The workshop introduced life scientists with some programming experience to machine learning methods. The learning objectives were to:
- Identify the types of problems that machine learning methods can be applied to
- Understanding of basic ML concepts like the bias-variance tradeoff, and test/train/validate
- Gain experience applying a few types of classification and regression methods
- Have a general sense of the methods and software available
- Know where to go to continue learning about ML after the course