Workshops are held weekly in Thomas 327 or online. Contact us if you have any topic suggestions for requests! Be sure to fill out the polls sent out weekly to ensure that enough food is provided for all attendees.
Here we will gather useful links and resources associated with different workshops.
SGSA Online Panel: Looking for Jobs
https://psu.zoom.us/rec/share/59x-BYn33GRJQLfw2hrUAIoQMZ_eaaa8hyNLqfEMxEkjxOJQRYpWhlZZFKmB93wg
UPAC Funding presentation by Claire Kelling and Alex Zhao
ACI Cluster Use presentation by Ben Lee
SSH Clients:
https://www.chiark.greenend.or
Documentation: ACI-Documentation_Reference-Sheet-2hi9pxt
Onboarding: ICS-ACI__Onboarding-2mrdl7x
Tidyverse presentation by John Ensley
Mendeley Presentation by John Meier
Making Your Own R Package Presentations by Jason Bernstein and Justin Petrovich
Not So Standard Deviation blog post
Justin’s Presentation (and R resources)
R Markdown ASA Webinar.
Intro to R Presentation by Sayali Phadke.
Further resources (the slides)
Tiny Handbook of R (pdf available from Debmalya)
We R: Penn State R User’s Group
Advanced R by Hadley Wickham (probably most useful after your first year, but full of useful information)
Stack Overflow (most times if you Google an R question you’ll end up here)
Intro to Latex Overviews by Greg Bopp and John Ensley.
Equation Editor (takes equations and symbols and translates to LaTeX)
Detoxify (draw the symbol, get the LaTeX)
Math into LaTeX – George Gratzer
Experiences and lessons learned teaching LaTeX to university students – Gary Greg andFrancesco Costanzo (BOTH PENN STATE PROFS!)
Learning LaTeX – Griffiths and Higham
The following are a compilation of tutorials featuring Overleaf compiled by John Lees-Miller, Co-Founder of Overleaf sent to me by Gary Greg.
https://medium.com/thoughts-philosophy-writing/how-to-use-overleaf-to-write-your-papers-part-i-basic-minimalist-setup-6599268c095f
https://medium.com/thoughts-philosophy-writing/how-to-use-overleaf-to-write-your-papers-part-ii-tables-figures-bibliography-7a4e921227fd
https://medium.com/thoughts-philosophy-writing/how-to-use-overleaf-to-write-your-papers-part-iii-how-to-use-markdown-with-overleaf-with-help-80f1e27a65a
- Use Plot.ly to create plots and figures and import them to Overleaf:https://www.overleaf.com/blog/201-reproducible-and-collaborative-data-science-overleaf-links-with-plotly#
- Linking to your Mendeley account: https://www.overleaf.com/blog/184#
- Import your bibliography from Zotero and CiteULike: https://www.overleaf.com/blog/174#
- Publish to Figshare for a DOI: https://www.overleaf.com/blog/10-publish-to-figshare-with-writelatex#
Creating a Professional Graduate Student Website
PSU WordPress Sites (Getting Started)
Connect a Google Calendar with Simple Calendar Plugin
PSU Grad Student Websites (email SGSA@psu.edu to have yours included!)
Updating Your C.V.
Have you tried creating your C.V. in Latex format? Check out some of these easy to use templates!
Hyndsight LaTeX template for CV
Resume Vs. CV Workshop Slides Materials Recording
Creating Better Plots in R – GGPLOT2 Overview provided by Mauricio Fernandes.
Utilizing GitHub as Code Repository and Version Control Overview provided by John Ensley.
Internships for Statistics graduate students
A discussion with students who have done non-academic internships in the past
In this fantastic workshop, eight graduate students who are currently in their second, third, fourth, and fifth years, shared their experiences. They talked about how they found out about the opportunity, the process they followed, the kind of work they got to do, and the learning they derived from it. Questions surrounding the process and the role of such an experience in the graduate journey of a statistics student were addressed in detail. Given the role of of statisticians in the current data-driven world, and the keenness of many of our students to consider careers outside of academia, we’d say that this workshop was quite important; and I’d say it went pretty damn well!
Going on the Job Market
Kevin Lee’s experiences on the academic and industry job market.
Midterms/Finals Focus on Mental Health