Class Catalog

Learn to code, access the cluster, work better with your colleagues, or tell stories with plots and spreadsheets

You can sign up for a class or workshop if you are affiliated with a Cancer Consortium institution (Fred Hutch, UW, or SCH). All class and workshop materials are available online. Classes with asterisks (*) have a prerequisite, offered here.

You are welcome to work through them yourself, but you can only get a badge if you sign up for the class.

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Data 4 All


No matter who you are, improve your skills at working with data and communicating with data. These workshops are designed to be tool-agnostic, and are discussion oriented. No prerequisites for these workshops.

Reproducible Research Workshops Beginner-friendly

Better Plots (offered in fall)

Better Spreadsheets (offered in winter)

Better Tables (offered in spring)

Data Science Programming


Learn to load, clean, and visualize data in R, Python, and SQL. Classes with prerequisites are marked with a (*)

Data Science Programming R Beginner-friendly

Intro to R (offered fall and spring)

Intermediate R (*) (offered fall and winter)

Data Science Programming any language Beginner-friendly

Intro to Python (offered fall and winter)

Intermediate Python (*) (offered winter)

Data Science Programming SQL Beginner-friendly

Intro to SQL (offered fall and winter)

Scalable Computing


Learn how to use Fred Hutch’s scientific computing resources so you can analyze large data sets or do computing more efficiently. Workshops and classes with prerequisites are indicated with a (*)

Scalable Computing Beginner-friendly

Intro to command line (offered fall and summer)

Intro to FH Cluster Computing (*) (offered fall and spring)

Bash for Bioinformatics (*) (offered fall and spring)

Reproducible Research


Learn best practices for reproducible research to make your work transparent and reusable by your labmates, your PI, your own future self, and the scientific community. Workshops with prerequisites are marked with a (*)

Reproducible Research Workshops Beginner-friendly

Intro to Git and GitHub (offered in winter and summer)

Intermediate Git and GitHub (*) (offered in winter and summer)

Package Management for R and Python (*) (offered in winter and summer)

Making Code Ready for Publication (*) (offered in winter and summer)