The Department of Statistics and Data Sciences is again offering a Summer Statistics Institute this May.
See: https://stat.utexas.edu/training/ssi for more information. I will be offering a course "Geospatial Data Analysis in R" that covers using R as a GIS. See: https://stat.utexas.edu/training/ssi/courses#geo for details. Hope you can join us. THK -- http://www.keittlab.org/
