SCUG: Statistical Computing User Group

Welcome to OU's Statistical Computing User Group. In the spring of 2020, our regular meeting time remains 9:30-10:30am on the first Tuesday of each month.

Our goal is to facilitate the use of statistical and methodological tools and promote collaboration, mentorship, and discussion of research and analysis.

The group is open to anyone interested in the tools used by statisticians and research methodologists. If you would like to present, please contact Will Beasley. We encourage any students or employees to participate or present. Alternatively, tell us if there’s a technique that would help your research or assignments, and we’ll try to arrange an expert to teach us about it.

The group's steering committee is Melissa Nestor, Mike Anderson, and Will Beasley. Previous members include David Thompson and Jessica Hale. The code and material from previous presentations in the user group (formerly called the SAS/R User Group) can be accessed here: 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, and 2012.

We meet in the East Boardroom of the Samis Education Center in Children's Hospital. (If you don't see us in the East Boardroom, walk 50 yds to your right and check if we've been moved to the West Boardroom.) Driving and parking directions are here. Once inside the main entrance (which is Level 2), head slightly to the right and take an elevator down to Level 1. Exit the elevator and turn left; pass through the Samis doors. The East Board Room will be the first room you see. Please join us. Electrical outlets and OUHSC Wi-Fi are available.

2020 Presentations

May ?	Open Science Framework by Amanda Schilling, OU Libraries, STEM Services
Apr 7	cancelled --covid practices
Mar 3	Data Visualization Software on Campus Melissa Nestor, IT Data Services
Feb 4	Scientific Writing with Bookdown by Will Beasley, Dept of Pediatrics, Biomedical and Behavioral Methodology Core (BBMC)

2019 Presentations

Dec 3	Using Microsoft Power BI for Dynamic Reporting on the OUHSC Campus. by Jeb Sheriff & Melissa Nestor, IT Data Services.
Nov 5	Text Manipulation with Regular Expressions, Part 2. by Will Beasley, Dept of Pediatrics, Biomedical and Behavioral Methodology Core (BBMC) Presentations and supplemental material for the meeting.
Oct 1	Text Manipulation with Regular Expressions, Part 1. by Will Beasley, Dept of Pediatrics, Biomedical and Behavioral Methodology Core (BBMC) Presentations and supplemental material for the meeting.
Sept 3	Open Conversation & Questions. hosted by Will Beasley, Dept of Pediatrics, Biomedical and Behavioral Methodology Core (BBMC). Presentations and supplemental material for the meeting.
Aug 6	cancelled --summer
July 2	cancelled --summer
Jun 4	Open Conversation & Questions. hosted by Will Beasley, Dept of Pediatrics, Biomedical and Behavioral Methodology Core (BBMC). Presentations and supplemental material for the meeting.
May 07	Demo of developing & submitting supercomputer batch jobs, by Will Beasley. Shiny Development, part 2. by Will Beasley, Dept of Pediatrics, Biomedical and Behavioral Methodology Core (BBMC). Presentations and supplemental material for supercomputer demo. Presentations and supplemental material for Shiny.
Apr 02	Intro to Supercomputing & How It Can Help You. by Henry Neeman, OU Supercomputing Center for Education & Research (OSCER).
March 05	Relational Database Design and Optimization by Sree Mandem, Dept of Pediatrics, Biomedical and Behavioral Methodology Core (BBMC)
Feb 05	Shiny Development, part 1. by Will Beasley, Dept of Pediatrics, Biomedical and Behavioral Methodology Core (BBMC). Presentations and supplemental material for the meeting.

2018 Presentations

Dec 04	Shiny Deployment; Open Conversation & Questions. hosted by Will Beasley, Dept of Pediatrics, Biomedical and Behavioral Methodology Core (BBMC). Presentations and supplemental material for the meeting.
Nov 6	Bayesian Data Analysis of Simple Statistical Models with Python. by Blaine Mooers, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Laboratory of Biomolecular Structure and Function (LBSF).
Oct 2	Customizing Display Tables: Using CSS with DT and kableExtra. by Will Beasley, Dept of Pediatrics, Biomedical and Behavioral Methodology Core (BBMC). Presentations and supplemental material for the meeting.
Sep 4	codified package: Produce standard/formalized demographics tables. by Will Beasley, Dept of Pediatrics, Biomedical and Behavioral Methodology Core (BBMC). Discussion of New REDCap User Group by Thomas Wilson, Dept of Pediatrics, Biomedical and Behavioral Methodology Core (BBMC).
Aug 7	cancelled --summer
July 3	cancelled --summer
Jun 12	Open Conversation & Questions. hosted by Will Beasley, Dept of Pediatrics, Biomedical and Behavioral Methodology Core (BBMC). Presentations and supplemental material for the meeting.
May 1	Performing semi-parametric AUC model in homemade R, Python, and Julia packages. by Som Bohora, Dept of Pediatrics, Developmental & Behavioral Pediatrics.
Apr 3	Open Conversation & Questions. hosted by Will Beasley, Dept of Pediatrics, Biomedical and Behavioral Methodology Core (BBMC). Presentations and supplemental material for the meeting.
Mar 6	Open Conversation & Questions. hosted by Will Beasley, Dept of Pediatrics, Biomedical and Behavioral Methodology Core (BBMC). Presentations and supplemental material for the meeting.
Feb 6	Developing Dashboards for non-Statisticians. by Will Beasley, Dept of Pediatrics, Biomedical and Behavioral Methodology Core (BBMC).

2017 Presentations

Dec 5	Bayesian Analysis with Python. by Blaine Mooers, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Laboratory of Biomolecular Structure and Function (LBSF).
Nov 7	State Space Mixture Modeling: A Method for Finding People with Similar Change Processes. by Mike Hunter, Dept of Pediatrics, Developmental & Behavioral Pediatrics. Presentations and supplemental material for the meeting.
Oct 3	Ellis Island: a software pattern for assimilating external data, Part 2.
Sep 5	Ellis Island: a software pattern for assimilating external data, Part 1. by Will Beasley, Dept of Pediatrics, Biomedical and Behavioral Methodology Core (BBMC).
Aug 1	cancelled --summer
Jul 4	cancelled --holiday
Jun 6	Creating a minimal R package, Part 4: adding more functions.
May 2	Creating a minimal R package, Part 3: adding functions.
Apr 4	Creating a minimal R package, Part 2: testing framework.
Mar 7	Creating a minimal R package, Part 1: initializing package skeleton. by Will Beasley, Dept of Pediatrics, Biomedical and Behavioral Methodology Core (BBMC). Presentations and supplemental material for the meeting.
Jan 30	REDCap Experiences at IUPUI. by Andy Arenson, IUPUI School of Medicine.

2016 Presentations

Dec 6	Introduction to the R package NIMBLE: Numerical Inference of statistical Models for Bayesian and Likelihood Estimation. by Blaine Mooers, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Laboratory of Biomolecular Structure and Function (LBSF). Presentations and supplemental material for the meeting.
Nov 1	BBMC Validator: catch and communicate data errors. by Will Beasley, Dept of Pediatrics, Biomedical and Behavioral Methodology Core (BBMC). Presentations and supplemental material for the meeting.
Oct 4	Data Manipulation in R & Python: the dplyr, data.table, and dplython packages. by Som Bohora, Dept of Pediatrics, Developmental & Behavioral Pediatrics. Presentations and supplemental material for the meeting.
Sep 6	Open Agenda.
Aug 2	Open Agenda.
Jul 5	Open Agenda.
Jun 7	Learning Python Programming Language in Interactive Computing Framework, Part 2. by Som Bohora, Dept of Pediatrics, Developmental & Behavioral Pediatrics. Presentations and supplemental material for the meeting.
May 3	Text Manipulation with Regular Expressions, Part 2. by Will Beasley, Dept of Pediatrics, Biomedical and Behavioral Methodology Core (BBMC) Presentations and supplemental material for the meeting.
Mar 1	Learning Python Programming Language in Interactive Computing Framework, Part 1. by Som Bohora, Dept of Pediatrics, Developmental & Behavioral Pediatrics. Presentations and supplemental material for the meeting.
Feb 2	Text Manipulation with Regular Expressions, Part 1. by Will Beasley, Dept of Pediatrics, Biomedical and Behavioral Methodology Core (BBMC) Presentations and supplemental material for the meeting.

2015 Presentations

Dec 1	Time and Effort Dataset Synthesis by Will Beasley, Dept of Pediatrics, Biomedical and Behavioral Methodology Core (BBMC) Presentations and supplemental material for the meeting.
Nov 3	Monte Carlo Simulation of Data that Follows a Given Covariance Structure by Dee Wu, Technology Applications & Translational Research, Dept of Radiological Sciences. Presentations and supplemental material for the meeting.
Oct 6	Interactive reports and webpages with R & Shiny (and screenshots) by Will Beasley, Dept of Pediatrics, Biomedical and Behavioral Methodology Core (BBMC) Presentations and supplemental material for the meeting.
Jul 7	Pandas: the primary Python tabular data analysis/manipulation toolkit by Michael Ripperger, Bioinformatics Student, Vanderbilt Presentations and supplemental material for the meeting.
Jun 2	Data Mining in Health Analytics and a Quick Look at SAS Enterprise Miner Interface by Ram Poudel, Research Coordinator, Sooner SUCCESS, Dept of Pediatrics, Developmental & Behavioral Pediatrics Presentations and supplemental material for the meeting.
Apr 7	Extending Semiparametric AUC Model with Discrete Covariates into General Framework by Som Bohora, Dept of Pediatrics, Developmental & Behavioral Pediatrics. The mansucript associated with this presentation is being prepared. Please contact Som if you'd like an advanced copy.
Feb 3	Using knitr with logistic multilevel models and decision support trees by Som Bohora, Dept of Pediatrics, Developmental & Behavioral Pediatrics. Presentations and supplemental material for the meeting.

2014 Presentations

Nov 4	Getting Started with Bayesian GLMMs in R, SAS, Mplus, & WinBUGS, by David Bard, Dept of Pediatrics, Biomedical and Behavioral Methodology Core (BBMC) Presentations and supplemental material for the meeting.
Oct 7	Data Manipulation in R: Using the plyr package and other tools by Will Beasley, Dept of Pediatrics, Biomedical and Behavioral Methodology Core (BBMC). (This was a rerun, because the original presenter's babysitter cancelled on him. We chose to redo the plyr talk because many of October's attendees missed Februrary, or wanted to see it again.) Presentations and supplemental material for the meeting.
Sep 2	Adding Graph Visualization on SAS ODS Output by Yu Fu Oklahoma State Department of Health (OSDH). Literate Programming Patterns and Practices with REDCap and REDCapR by Will Beasley, Thomas Wilson, & David Bard, Dept of Pediatrics, Biomedical and Behavioral Methodology Core (BBMC). Presentations and supplemental material for the meeting.
Jun 3	A Visual Tour of Extended Structural Equations & State Space Models by Mike Hunter, (Developmental & Behavioral Pediatrics) Presentations and supplemental material for the meeting.
May 6	Statistical Collaboration with GitHub by Will Beasley, Dept of Pediatrics, Biomedical and Behavioral Methodology Core (BBMC) Presentations and supplemental material for the meeting.
Apr 1	Word Clouds in R: Lofty solutions for qualitative data by Thomas Wilson, Dept of Pediatrics, Biomedical and Behavioral Methodology Core (BBMC). The Fifer Package, by Dustin Fife, Department of Arthritis and Clinical Immunology, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation (OMRF). Presentations and supplemental material for the meeting.
Mar 4	The kaps Package: An Intro to R Packages for SAS Users by Summer Frank, Biostatistics and Epidemiology (BSE). Missing Data and Multiple Imputation with SAS, by Jacob Pleitz, OU Norman Quantitative Psychology. Presentations and supplemental material for the meeting.
Feb 4	Data Manipulation in R: Using the plyr package and other tools by Will Beasley, Dept of Pediatrics, Biomedical and Behavioral Methodology Core (BBMC). Presentations and supplemental material for the meeting.

2013 Presentations

Aug 19	Dealing with simple two-way tables using SAS PROC FREQ by Som Bohora, Biostatistics and Epidemiology (BSE). Presentations and supplemental material for the meeting.
Jun 17	Spatial Analysis with R, by Maleeha Shaid, Dept of Pediatrics, Sooner SUCCESS
Apr 15	Calculating Subset Weighted Analysis Using PROC SURVEYFREQ and GENMOD by Jessica Hale, David Thompson, & Paul Darden, Dept of Pediatrics Presentations and supplemental material for the meeting.
Mar 18	A continuation of Optimizing Study Management using REDCap, R, and other software tools by Will Beasley, David Bard, & Thomas Wilson, Dept of Pediatrics, Biomedical and Behavioral Methodology Core (BBMC) Presentations and supplemental material for the meeting.
Feb 18	Bayes Without Tears by Dee Wu, Dept of Medical Imaging and Radiation Sciences. Optimizing Study Management using REDCap, R, and other software tools by Will Beasley, David Bard, & Thomas Wilson, Dept of Pediatrics, Biomedical and Behavioral Methodology Core (BBMC) Presentations and supplemental material for the meeting.

2012 Presentations

Nov 19	Extending R with Compiled C code, by Michael Anderson, Dept of Biostatistics and Epidemiology (BSE) and Dept of Pediatrics, Biomedical and Behavioral Methodology Core (BBMC). Presentations and supplemental material for the meeting.
Oct 15	Balanced Anova in R and SAS by Dee Wu, Dept of Medical Imaging and Radiation Sciences. Presentations and supplemental material for the meeting.
Sep 17	A Quick Survey of R Usage: Some of Our Favorite Programming, Graphical, Reporting, and Analysis Features, by David Bard, Will Beasley, & Thomas Wilson, Dept of Pediatrics, Biomedical and Behavioral Methodology Core (BBMC) Box Plots in SAS by Summer Frank, Dept of Biostatistics and Epidemiology (BSE). Presentations and supplemental material for the meeting.