Rafael Irizarry
Professor of Biostatistics, T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Rafael Irizarry is a Professor of Biostatistics at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and a Professor of Biostatistics and Computational Biology at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute. For the past 15 years, Dr. Irizarry’s research has focused on the analysis of genomics data. During this time, he has also has taught several classes, all related to applied statistics. Dr. Irizarry is one of the founders of the Bioconductor Project, an open source and open development software project for the analysis of genomic data. His publications related to these topics have been highly cited and his software implementations widely downloaded.

Faculty Courses

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Perform RNA-Seq, ChIP-Seq, and DNA methylation data analyses, using open source software, including R and Bioconductor.

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Free*
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5 weeks long
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The structure, annotation, normalization, and interpretation of genome scale assays.

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Free*
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4 weeks long
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Learn advanced approaches to genomic visualization, reproducible analysis, data architecture, and exploration of cloud-scale consortium-generated genomic data.

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Free*
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5 weeks long
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A focus on several techniques that are widely used in the analysis of high-dimensional data.

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Free*
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4 weeks long
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A focus on several techniques that are widely used in the analysis of high-dimensional data.

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Free*
Duration
4 weeks long
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An introduction to basic statistical concepts and R programming skills necessary for analyzing data in the life sciences.

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Free*
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4 weeks long
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Build a foundation in R and learn how to wrangle, analyze, and visualize data.

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Free*
Duration
8 weeks long
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Learn probability theory — essential for a data scientist — using a case study on the financial crisis of 2007–2008.

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Free*
Duration
8 weeks long
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Keep your projects organized and produce reproducible reports using GitHub, git, Unix/Linux, and RStudio.

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Free*
Duration
8 weeks long
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Learn to process and convert raw data into formats needed for analysis.

 

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Free*
Duration
8 weeks long
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Build a movie recommendation system and learn the science behind one of the most popular and successful data science techniques.

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Free*
Duration
8 weeks long
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