Spring 2025

Spring 2025: U of A DataLab workshop sessions 

Watch the U of A DataLab Spring 2025 semester workshop series on the UArizona Data Lab YouTube channel.  

AI Makerspace Meetup  

Bioinformatics & Genomics  

1/30 Sequence manipulation, alignment, and assessment - Youtube  

2/6  A Beginner's Guide to RNA-seq with DESeq2 -Youtube 

2/13 RNA-Seq Data Analysis in R: From Raw Counts to Differential Expression Analysis - Youtube  

2/20 Downstream Analysis of RNA-Seq Results in R: GSEA, PPI Networks, and Biological Interpretation -Youtube   

2/27 QTL mapping with qtl2 - Youtube 

3/6  Introduction to GWAS - Youtube 

3/20 De-novo Detection and Annotation of Transposable Elements - Youtube  

3/27 Explore Current AI/ML Trends and Tools in Bioinformatics - Youtube   

CyVerse Webinars 

2/14  Strategies for Managing Data for Team Projects (1 of 2-part CyVerse webinar) - Youtube 

Data Science Tapas  

2/5 Introduction to Python for Data Science - Youtube 

2/19 Introduction to Machine Learning Algorithms - Youtube 

3/5 Introduction to Visualization: Theory and Practice - Youtube 

3/19 Introduction to Deep Learning for Healthcare 

4/2 Introduction to Speech to text with Whisper AI - Youtube 

4/16 Introduction to Python Accelerated Data Science with RAPIDS 

Functional Open Science Skills for AI/ML  

1/28 The moving parts of Functional Open Science - Youtube 

2/4 AI's Role and Tools in Open Science - Youtube 

2/11 Learning to Work in the Cloud: JetStream2 and Reproducibility - Youtube 

2/18 Handling Images & Videos pt. 1 - Youtube 

2/25 Handling Images & Videos pt. 2 - Youtube 

3/4 Training and Testing Models - Youtube 

3/18 End-to-end ML Workflow pt.1 - Youtube 

3/25 End-to-end ML Workflow pt.2 

Mastering Generative AI Foundation Models for Research  

1/30 Scaling up Ollama: Local, CyVerse, HPC - Youtube 

2/6 Using AI Verde  - Youtube 

2/13 Best practices of Prompt Engineering using AI Verde - Youtube 

2/20 Quick RAG application using AI Verde / HPC - Youtube 

2/27 Multimodal Q&A+OCR in AI Verde - Youtube 

3/6 SQL specialized query code generation - Youtube 

3/20 Function calling with LLMs - Youtube 

3/27 Code generation assistants - Youtube 

Introduction to Classical Machine Learning  

1/30 Scaling up Ollama: Local, CyVerse, HPC - Youtube 

2/6 Using AI Verde  - Youtube 

2/13 Best practices of Prompt Engineering using AI Verde - Youtube 

2/20 Quick RAG application using AI Verde / HPC - Youtube 

2/27 Multimodal Q&A+OCR in AI Verde - Youtube 

3/6 SQL specialized query code generation - Youtube 

3/20 Function calling with LLMs - Youtube 

3/27 Code generation assistants - Youtube 

Natural Language Processing for All  

1/30 Introduction to NLP with SpaCy - Youtube 

2/6 Regular Expressions for NLP - Youtube 

2/13 Text pre-processing for NLP - Youtube 

2/20 Introduction to Information Extraction - Youtube 

2/27 NLP with Transformers - Youtube 

3/6 Introduction to Semantic Search - Youtube 

3/20 Introduction to Speech Technology 

3/27 Speech-to-Text with Whisper AI 

4/3 AI applications for Audio data 

Research Productivity Workshops (Series 1 and 2)