Data Analytics : Using R for Statistics
27th April 2026 - 9:30-14:00 each day
free for University of Birmingham staff and students (register with UoB email address)
£249 for NHS staff (you will be sent a separate payment link)
£349 for Health Innovation West Midlands Staff (you will be sent a separate payment link)
£449 for other external staff (you will be sent a separate payment link)
This one-day online course will cover the fundamentals of R as a programming language. It uses R to model data in ggplot2, including Linear Regression and non-parametric tests using data from bioprocessing operations.
This course will prepare beginners on the logic, layout and grammar of using a programming language to visualise their data and determine if it proves a hypothesis.
The course will consist of two sessions:
A morning session: 9:30-12.00
An afternoon session of Q&A: 13.00-Open ended
Learning outcomes
Use R Studio
Understand the concepts of objects and functions
Download a package
Create, theme and annotate a plot with ggplot2
Fit a line to a protein standard curve
Subset data
Do Nonlinear Least Squares fit
Who this course is aimed at?
CPD
Undergraduates, Masters students
PhDs, Post Docs