Welcome to Biostat 203B: Introduction to Data Science in R.

Today

• Introduction and course logistics.

• Lab 1 (setting up for the course).

• Linux basics.

Announcements

• One survey (due Jan 12 @ 11:59pm) and four quizzes (due Jan 19 @ 11:59pm) on BruinLearn.

• HW1 posted and due Jan 26 @ 11:59pm.

Assignment (to be completed this week)

• Fill out a short survey on BruinLearn. It helps me better tailor the course to your background. Do it now.

• Slack channel: inform us your http://ucla.slack.com/ username in this form. TA team and I will answer your questions on Slack at our earliest convenience. It is a more effective way to get help than email and office hours.

• Complete Lab 1 for creating the software environment for this class.

• (Optional) Register for an account on Hoffman2 cluster. See here for instructions. Choose Hua Zhou as your faculty sponsor.