This page contains the data science tutorials for the 2025 Modelers and Storytellers: Transdisciplinary Training to Advance Community Health Intervention Research project.
This training is hosted by the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health (FSPH) and sponsored by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD). Principal investigators are Drs. Roch Nianogo, Michael Prelip, May Wang, and Hua Zhou.
Run tutorials in RStudio: Posit Cloud
Run tutorials in Jupyter notebooks (can be slow):
| Time | Topic | Instructor |
|---|---|---|
| 8:30a-10:10a | Data science overview, data source, intro. to R [tutorial] | Dr. Hua Zhou |
| 10:10a-10:20a | Break | |
| 10:20a-11:50a | CPS-FSS data: ingest, wrangle, visualize [tutorial] | Dr. Hua Zhou |
| 11:50a-12:20p | Lunch Break | |
| 12:20p-1:50p | Predictive modeling (logistic regression) [tutorial] | Dr. Hua Zhou |
| 1:50p-2:00p | Break | |
| 2:00p-2:30p | Wrap-up & Closing & Group Work | Emily Abrahams |
| Time | Topic | Instructor |
|---|---|---|
| 8:30a-10:10a | Predictive modeling (random forest) [tutorial], Predictive modeling (food recognition) [tutorial] | Dr. Hua Zhou |
| 10:10a-10:20a | Break | |
| 10:20a-11:50a | Policy evaluation by DML [tutorial] | Dr. Hua Zhou |
| 11:50a-12:20p | Lunch Break | |
| 12:20p-1:50p | TBD | Guest Speaker |
| 1:50p-2:00p | Break | |
| 2:00p-2:30p | Wrap-up & Closing & Group Work | Emily Abrahams |
| Time | Topic | Instructor |
|---|---|---|
| 8:30a-10:10a | TBD | Dr. Roch Nianogo |
| 10:10a-10:20a | Break | |
| 10:20a-11:50a | TBD | Dr. Roch Nianogo |
| 11:50a-12:20p | Lunch Break | |
| 12:20p-1:50p | TBD | Dr. Roch Nianogo |
| 1:50p-2:00p | Break | |
| 2:00p-2:30p | Wrap-up & Closing & Group Work | Emily Abrahams |