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Details For our June event, R-Ladies Anna Sofia Kircher and Joyce Robbins will share short talks about using color palettes, themes, and schemes to improve data visualization in R. This event will be hosted over Zoom, and the link will be available on this Meetup page at noon on the day of the event. Agenda (times approximate): 7-7:05 pm: R-Ladies NYC Announcements 7:05-7:30: “ggplot and I” by Anna Sofia Kircher 7:30-7:55: “Does your color palette match your data?

Details For our April event, we will have two guest speakers. Megan Robertson will be talking about how to write production level data science code, while Natalie O’Shea will be discussing how to use the nyccensus package and how to wrangle/use census data for equity. This event will be hosted over Zoom, and the link will be available on this Meetup page at noon on the day of the event.

Details For our March event, Dr. Connie Brett, the CEO, founder, & principal data scientist of Aggregate Genius, Inc. will talk to us about the Periscope package and enterprise-level Shiny apps! This event will be hosted over Zoom, and the link will be available on this Meetup page at noon on the day of the event. Agenda (times approximate): 6:05 - 6:10 pm: R-Ladies NYC Announcements 6:10 + : Connie’s talk on periscope with time for Q&A

Details Join us for a collaborative exploration of the Tidy Tuesday dataset of the week! First, we will have a short demo of working through a previous Tidy Tuesday dataset, led by Ludmila Janda. Then we will work in groups to do some exploration and visualization of the dataset of the week and then we will come together to share our work. No preparation is necessary but participants are welcome to check out the dataset(s) and come with any ideas they may have.

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Details For our February book club, we’ll be discussing “Data Feminism” by Catherine D’Ignazio and Lauren F. Klein.

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This event will be hosted over Zoom, and the link will be available on this Meetup page the morning of the event. We will request your email address upon registration to ensure you receive the Zoom passcode on the day of the event.

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Details If getting more involved with your local R-Ladies New York chapter was on your list of 2021 resolutions, here’s your chance! We are looking for new members to join us as event organizers on the R-Ladies NYC Board. This information session will be a meet and greet with current board members: we’ll introduce ourselves, explain responsibilities and the expected time commitment of a board member, and highlight initiatives we’d like to pursue in 2021.

Details [Please note: At the request of members of our community for an R-Ladies space exclusively for minority genders, this event is limited to those who identify as such (including but not limited to women, trans men, non-binary, and gender nonconforming individuals). Male allies have been great supporters of our chapter and the R-Ladies mission to promote gender diversity in the R Community – for which we are grateful! – and we believe the best way male allies can support us this month is by honoring the need for and benefit of such a space.

Details This event will be hosted over Zoom, and the link will be available on this Meetup page at noon on the day of the event. We will request your email address upon registration to ensure you receive the newly required Zoom passcode on the day of the event. Agenda (subject to change): 7:30-7:35 pm: R-Ladies NYC Announcements 7:35-8:05: Book talk 8:05 - end Audience Q&A Book Description Data Science in Education Using R is the go-to reference for learning data science in the education field.

Details For our October event, R-Ladies Yipeng Lai and Stacy Lansey will share short talks on using R for analyzing gender bias on Wikipedia and learning R through data visualization (which motivated an interesting side project on gender). This event will be hosted over Zoom, and the link will be available on this Meetup page at noon on the day of the event. Agenda (times approximate): 7-7:05 pm: R-Ladies NYC Announcements

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For our September book club, we’ll be discussing “How Charts Lie: Getting Smarter about Visual Information” by Alberto Cairo.

Zoom link will be available to attendees on the Meetup event page as of 9 am Eastern on September 26th.

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