Training

I am a Senior Fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy (SFHEA) & a Carpentries Instructor trainer.

RStudio Certified training

I am an RStudio Certified Instructor with 6+ experience in developing and delivering training commercially and at Go8 Universities in Australia. If you are interested in commercial data science training using R or Python, please reach out via email at d.vanichkina at gmail dot com. My ABN is 14 264 195 525.

Professional experience

I have developed and delivered a wide range of training:

Date Organisation Details
2022 Sydney Quantum Academy Contribution to developing Intro git and Parallel Python
2022 Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia Python for Geosciences (online, attendees from Santos, BHP, Origin, Beach Energy etc)
2022 New Quarto-based SIH training template SIH Quarto training template
2022 Sydney Informatics Hub A gentle introduction to computer vision
2022 Sydney Informatics Hub Introduction to R-Shiny
2021 Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia Python for Geosciences (online, attendees from Santos, BHP, Origin, Beach Energy etc)
2021 eHealth@Sydney Python for analysing disease spread & electronic health records (online)
2020 Sydney Informatics Hub Machine learning in R (online and in-person); Machine learning in python (online); Publication-quality tables in R (online); Profiling R code (online); Teaching at the Informatics Hub
2020 University of Sydney Business School Business School Data Science Summer School
2020 Carpentries Carpentries Instructor Training (online)
2019 Monash University Carpentries Instructor Training
2019 University of Sydney Business School Business School Data Science Summer School
2019 Sydney Informatics Hub Machine learning in R (in-person x 4); Machine learning in python (in-person x 4)
2019 UNSW Geospatial data analysis
2019 SIH RNA-seq data analysis course using R + HPC
2018 Women Who Code Sydney R for Data Analysis (https://github.com/dvanic/wwc2018)
2018 University of Sydney Brain and Mind Centre R for Biomedical Researchers
2018 Sydney Informatics Hub Geospatial data analysis
2018 CSIRO Introduction to SQL for the CSIRO Data School
2018 Macquarie University Introduction to R for reproducible scientific analysis
2017 University of Technology, Sydney Introduction to R, Unix and version control
2016 University of Sydney Introduction to python, Unix and version control
2016 pyconAU Introduction to data management, python for data analysis and version control
2015 University of Queensland Lead tutor for courses in microbiology, cell biology and bioinformatics
2014 University of Queensland Awarded competitive grant to develop flipped learning materials for bioinformatics course. Subsequent feedback indicated that “these materials were a lifesaver for the course when the COVID pandemic and associated pivot to online learning occurred”.
2014 University of Queensland Lead tutor for courses in bioinformatics and cell biology
2013 University of Queensland Lead tutor for courses in bioinformatics, cell biology and microbiology
2012 University of Queensland Tutor/lead tutor for courses in microbiology and cell biology
2011 University of Queensland Tutor/lead tutor for courses in microbiology and genetics