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February 2025 Training: Advanced Data Visualization in R

Date: February 15, 2025
Time: 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM WAT
Location: University of Jos / Virtual (Microsoft Teams)

Topics Covered:

  • Creating publication-ready plots with ggplot2
  • Customizing themes and colors
  • Interactive visualizations with plotly
  • Exporting graphics for manuscripts

Prerequisites: Basic R knowledge

Registration: Register on Meetup


Bi-weekly R Training Series

Schedule: Every other Friday, 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM WAT

Our regular training sessions cover essential topics for epidemiologists:

  • Data cleaning and manipulation (dplyr, tidyr)
  • Statistical analysis (gtsummary, survival analysis)
  • Outbreak analytics (EpiNow2, epicurve)
  • Report generation with R Markdown and Quarto

Past Events

December 2024: Logistic Regression Tables with gtsummary

  • Introduction to gtsummary package
  • Creating publication-ready regression tables
  • Customizing table output

November 2024: Introduction to Survival Analysis

  • Kaplan-Meier curves
  • Cox proportional hazards models
  • Practical applications in epidemiology

March 2024: Outbreak Mapping in R

  • Spatial data visualization
  • Creating choropleth and spot maps
  • Using ggplot2 and sf packages

Want to suggest a topic? Email us at info@unijosrusers.org