Getting the UK coding
This week is National Coding Week – an annual event that aims to inspire young people to code and build digital skills.
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Head of Faculty
Laurie joined the Data Science Campus in September 2019 from the University of Glasgow, where she gained a PhD in Epidemiology and worked on a wide range of data sets including Chilean fishing records, grey seal GPS movement tracks, and fox rabies cases.
As a PhD student and Medical Research Council (MRC) Transition Fellow she used Bayesian state-space and point process modelling approaches to understand spatial and temporal patterns in rabies transmission and the control of the disease through vaccination.
Laurie is interested in spatial modelling, data visualisation, image processing and text analysis. Outside of work she enjoys sailing, hiking, and improving her Spanish, Portuguese, and Italian.
Posts by Laurie Baker
Statistics for Data Science
This course introduces the basics of carrying out a statistical analysis in Python.
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This course introduces students to the grammar of graphics and building a plot using ggplot2.
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This 1 day course will introduce you to the building blocks of R including objects, vectors, and data frames and will examine common data types.
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