Modelers and Storytellers

2025 Transdisciplinary Training to Advance Community Health Intervention Research

Modelers and Storytellers

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.

Data Science Module, June 24-26, 2025

Run tutorials in RStudio: Posit Cloud

Run tutorials in Jupyter notebooks (can be slow): Binder

Tuesday, June 24

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

Wednesday, June 25

Time Topic Instructor
8:30a-10:10a Predictive modeling (random forest) [tutorial] Dr. Hua Zhou
10:10a-10:20a Break  
10:20a-11:50a Predictive modeling (food recognition) [tutorial] Dr. Hua Zhou
11:50a-12:20p Lunch Break  
12:20p-1:50p Policy evaluation by DML [tutorial] Dr. Hua Zhou
1:50p-2:00p Break  
2:00p-2:30p Wrap-up & Closing & Group Work Emily Abrahams

Thursday, June 26

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