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Biological Data Science Course

We organize courses in Biological Data Science at the University of Mons (Belgium) in French. Online material is available under a CC By-NC-SA 4.0 license.
Tranlations in English or other languages are welcome!

Part 1

12 modules/6 months

  • Introduction - Software & tools
  • Visualisation I - Scatterplot
  • Visualisation II - Distributions
  • Visualisation III - Barplot/boxplot
  • Data processing I - Importation/conversion
  • Data processing II - Contingency/sampling
  • Data processing III - Multi-tables/databases
  • Experimental design & good practices
  • Probabilities & distributions
  • Chi-2 test, proportions & correlations
  • Confidence interval/Student test
  • Analysis of variance
Online Material

Part 2

14 modules/8 months

  • Linear model
  • Generalized linera model
  • Nonlinear model
  • Robust & quantile regression/survival analysis
  • Distance matrices & hierachical clustering
  • K-means & SOM
  • PCA & facotr analysis
  • MFA & Multidimensional scaling
  • Classification I - bases & LDA
  • Classification II - metrics & trees methods
  • Classification III = SVM, deep learning
  • Time series I - description, ACF, spectral analysis
  • Time series II - decomposition & regularisation
  • Spatial statistics, maps & krigging
Online Material

Part 3

10 modules/6 months

  • Practice I, multi-file templates
  • Data I - Dates, circular data, ...
  • Data II - Text & regular expressions
  • Practice II, modularization & functions
  • Practice III, open data
  • Code organization, OOP
  • Code testing & code optimization
  • Packages & continuous integration
  • Databases SQL & noSQL
  • Parallel and cloud computing
Online Material