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Details For our October Meetup, we welcome Liz Hare, who will lead a workshop titled “Writing Meaningful Alt-Texts for Data Visualizations in R.” Liz will introduce “alt-text” and offer guidance on best practices. Alt-text is important to incorporated into your work not only to adhere to accessibility laws but also to ensure your work reaches everyone. During the workshop, Liz will give the audience an opportunity to share their own data visualizations and discuss how they could be improved with alt-text.

Details For our February Meetup, we welcome R-Ladies NYC board member Ayanthi Gunawardana, who will teaching a workshop titled “An Introduction to Working with Geospatial Data in R.” She will show participants how to import, process, and map geospatial data in R. Ayanthi will also introduce some basic geospatial concepts, different file formats, and best practices in creating maps. She will primarily be working with the sf package for processing the geospatial data, and ggplot2 for plotting the data.

Details We are thrilled to kick off our 2022 programming by welcoming Joyce Robbins to lead us through a two-day interactive package development workshop! This first module will guide participants through creation of their first package. Besides familiarity with R/RStudio and basic function writing, there are no prerequisites. RSVP for this workshop is via Google Form: https://forms.gle/3rkuU8CZDMBrudfK8/. For more information about “Package Development Day 2 - Package Documentation,” see Meetup event https://www.

Details We are thrilled to kick off our 2022 programming by welcoming Joyce Robbins to lead us through a two-day interactive package development workshop! This second hour-long module will guide participants through types of and tools for package documentation. It builds upon material from “Package Development Day 1 - Your First Package” (see Meetup event https://www.meetup.com/rladies-newyork/events/283033216/), however participants can join this second session independently. Besides familiarity with R/RStudio and basic function writing, there are no prerequisites.

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.

Bring your laptop and come out to our next workshop to learn about building your very own R package! Visit our Meetup page to RSVP. Details Sebastian’s workshop will focus on R package development from the ground up. We will cover package structure, set-up, creating functions, documentation, testing, dependencies, sharing the package with others, package vignettes, hex stickers, and other methods. An example package will be developed during the workshop so attendees can follow along and create their own.

We are kicking off this year with an introduction to Github by Joyce Robbins. Visit our Meetup page to RSVP. Details This is a hands on workshop so please bring your laptop to follow along and please be prompt to make sure the workshop kicks off on time:) Date: Wednesday, January 9, 2019 Time: 6:30pm Host: Columbia University (1255 Amsterdam Ave, Room 903) About Joyce Joyce Robbins, Ph.D., is Lecturer in Discipline in the Statistics Department at Columbia University, where she specializes in data visualization.

Come out for our May event for a tutorial on Shiny! Julia Wrobel, a PhD candidate in biostatistics at Columbia University, will be teaching us to make and deploy Shiny apps using NBA data. The materials for this talk can be found on Julia’s website. Bring your laptops so that you can code as you go! Visit our Meetup page for more details and to RSVP. Date: Tuesday, May 8, 2018