This is the quick introductory presentation I prepared for the R workshop that I organized with Dr Bader Alhajeri

1. Kuwait University R Workshop
Fun Un-Real
‫وفر‬ ‫كر‬
2016 Workshop organized by:
Hasan Alhaddad (Ph.D.)
Suha Alabdulghafour (MSc.)
Bader Alhajeri (Ph.D.)
Huda Alaskar (MSc. student)

2. AIMS
We and you
Small introduction
Day 1 activities
Day 2 activities
Day 3 activities
[R]ing your data

3. We and You
Instructors
Hasan Alhaddad
Assistant professor of genetics
Research
Camelid and Feline Genomics
hagenetic.org
hhalhaddad@gmail.com
Bader Alhajeri
Assistant professor of Zoology
Research
Evolution and Ecology
Camelid and Rodents
bader.alhajeri@gmail.com
Organizing Team
Suha Alabdulghafour
Teaching Assistant Molecular Biology
Huda Alaskar
Graduate Student Molecular Biology

4. We and You
Tell us something about you
Need ideas?
Name
Education
Research interest
Future plans (scientific)

5. Why a workshop?

6. Our philosophy
“No serious scientific work can
be done in the absence of a
vibrant scientific community”
Hasan Alhaddad

7. We organized it for:
1. Networking
2. Collaborating
3. Training
4. Learning
5. Academic responsibility
6. Have some fun
7. Many other reasons :-)

8. Why KURwFUR?
‫وفر؟‬ ‫كر‬ ‫ليش‬

9. • Analysis in general and specifically in R may get you
frustrated some times.
• To become more productive and not give up after the
first challenge, we adopted “Attack and Retreat”
strategy.
Analyses going well, Attack
Analyses not going smooth, Retreat
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10. What is R?

11. https://www.r-project.org/about.html

12. Why an R workshop?

13. Why R?
Open source
Free
Big data analyses
Statistics and calculations
Big community
Packages available
Make your package
Me: plots plots plots :-)

14. Why R?
Number of packages on CRAN
9031
August 28th 2016
11:28 pm
https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/available_packages_by_date.html

15. Amazing graphs - from yours truly
Why R?

16. What NOT to expect from the
workshop?

17. NOT to expect
Finish thesis
Finish papers
Finish analyses
Finish dissertation
Become an R expert

18. What to EXPECT from the
workshop?

19. To expect
1 2 3 30 60
Scared
Confused
Not bad
OK
FUN
Sciecne
KURwFUR Days
RStateofMind

20. Remember