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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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We are hosting a very special event - lightning talks from the R-Ladies community! Come out to hear a variety of R and Data Science talks.

This event will be hosted over Zoom, and the link will be available on this Meetup page and sent to all attendees at noon on the day of the event.

Agenda:

7-7:05: Welcome and R-Ladies NYC Announcements

7:05-8:30: Lightning Talks!

Talks and Speakers:

• “Partial Correlation Networks in R” – Erin McDonnell
• “Batch Production of Reports in RMarkdown” – Alyssa Goldberg
• “Time Series Analysis of Bird Migrations Above NYC Skies Using bioRad” – Mei Guan
• “Webscraping with ‘rvest’” – Anisha BharathSingh
• “Intro to Latent Variable Modeling” – Apoorva Srinivasan
• “Automating Reports with Gmailr” – Samantha Emanuele
• “How to create a bookdown book in 5 minutes” – Joyce Robbins
• “Model Explainability and Interpretability” – Isabel Zimmerman
• “Website Checkout Funnel Analysis in R” – Christina Kim
• “The ‘comorbidity’ package” – Yolanda Barrón
• “Using Google Trends data to assess the impact of COVID-19 on suicidality and suicide - risk factors” – Emily Halford
• “Melvin: a DL-based companion bot” – MaryLena Bleile

Meetup event

Though we’ll be remote at least through the end of 2020, R-Ladies NYC doesn’t want to lose the magic of meetups, where we get to network, socialize, meet new people, and make connections. For our August meetup, we’ll be hosting a networking social event where we’ll utilize breakout rooms to allow participants to connect (or re-connect) with other members of our community in smaller groups. This event will be hosted over Zoom, and the link will be available on this Meetup page and sent to all attendees at noon on the day of the event.

Authors of “Build a Career in Data Science” Emily Robinson and Jacqueline Nolis will read selections from their book and discuss why they were meaningful and what thinking went into making it. In this session you’ll learn about some of the higher-level thinking that went into designing a book to help people excel in their data science careers, as well as hear stories from Emily and Jacqueline’s pasts that ended up shaping the narrative.

Our very own R-Ladies NYC board members Erin Grand and Kaelen Medeiros will give two short talks this month on leading R trainings for coworkers and flexdashboard! This event will be hosted over Zoom, and the link will be available on this Meetup page and sent to all attendees at noon on the day of the event. Agenda: 7-7:05 pm: R-Ladies NYC Announcements 7:05-7:30: “Leading R Trainings for Coworkers” by Erin Grand

Our very own Ayanthi Gunawardana and R-Ladies Chicago board member Angela Li join us this month to talk spatial statistics in R! This event will be hosted over Zoom, and a link will be sent to all attendees at noon on the day of the event. Agenda: 7-7:05 pm: R-Ladies NYC Announcements 7:05-7:30: “Uncharted Territory: An Introduction to Making Clear and Accurate Maps” by Ayanthi Gunawardana 7:30-7:55: “How to Be a Resilient Geospatial R useR: First Steps, Learning More, and the Spatial R-Ladies Community” by Angela Li

We’re so excited to have Angeline, Anisha, Emily, and Sharla talk about their experience with sharing their work through blog posts and twitter! Please email us at nyc@rladies.org with your question(s) for our amazing panelists to address, or submit them below in the comments. This event will be hosted over Zoom. A link will be sent to all attendees at noon on the day of the event. Panelist Bios Emily Robinson Emily Robinson is a senior data scientist at Warby Parker, where she works on a centralized team tackling some of the company’s biggest projects.

As New Yorkers do all we can to stay well in the times of coronavirus, all of our routines have changed. For some of us, this may mean more time devoted to strengthening our data skills. If this is you, here is a collection of resources that can get you up and running with learning a new skill in R. These were originally compiled for the R-Ladies NYC Code-llaboration Hangout back in January, and are organized by topic: Tidy Tuesday, Building a Package, Building a Website, Time Series Analysis and Everything Else.

Our speakers for the night will be Jessica Lavery and Margie Hannum from Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. Jessica will be talking about the timetrackR app. Margie will be discussing the gtsummary package. Agenda: 6:30-6:55 pm Introductions and Social Time 6:55-7 pm R-Ladies New York Announcements 7-7:10 Sponsor Message from IBM Developer New York 7:10-7:40 It’s Time to Shine with timetrackR App, Jessica Lavery 7:40-8:10 Creating publication-ready and reproducible analytical tables with gtsummary, Margie Hannum

We’ll kick off the year with a hands-on working session where we’ll work together on our own projects or tutorials. Come in curious about a subject or looking to make progress on a project you’re working on! We’ll divide ourselves into groups who’ll be working on similar topics, and we’ll have prompts and tutorials at hand for those who don’t have a particular project in mind. We believe that by collaborating with other R-Ladies who share your curiosity you’ll get much further than you would at home with google, and that even if you don’t have a set goal you’ll learn through sharing and receiving tips and tricks.