DSS Computing Bootcamp 2026
Department of Statistical Science, Duke University
Computing bootcamp materials for incoming Ph.D. and M.S. students in the Department of Statistical Science at Duke University. These materials are adapted from those developed by Shawn Santo, Alex Fischer, Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel, and Colin Rundel.
Slides
| Session | Topic |
|---|---|
| 1 | Introduction & Resources |
| 2 | Reproducibility, Version Control, & Literate Programming |
| 3 | Duke Compute Cluster (DCC) |
Materials
All source files for the slides and in-class activities are available in the GitHub repository, which you will learn to fork and clone during the bootcamp.
The literate programming activity uses the UN votes example (examples/unvotes.qmd in the repository).