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To close out 2019, we are thrilled to welcome Jenny Bryan for our R-Ladies New York end-of-year celebration and social! In the potluck tradition of year-end socials past, you are welcome to bring a dessert. Thank you to WarnerMedia for hosting us. Agenda: 6:30-6:55 pm Introductions and socializing 6:55-7 R-Ladies New York Announcements 7-7:10 Welcome from WarnerMedia 7:10-7:45 Jenny Bryan on debugging and troubleshooting 7:45-8:30 Socializing and networking Jenny Bryan is a Software Engineer and Data Scientist at RStudio and an Adjunct Professor of Statistics at the University of British Columbia with a Ph.

This Meetup features a triple-hitter of talks on R in medicine, biostats and health tech. Each speaker will talk for roughly 20 minutes about the topics below, before and after a half hour of socializing and snacks at Flatiron Health.

Date: Thursday, November 14, 2019

Time: 6:30pm - 8:30pm

Speakers: Jacqueline Gutman, Jessica Streeter, Sam Adhikari

Host: Flatiron Health, 233 Spring St

Event Organizers: Brooke Watson, Rika Gorn

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Join us to discuss Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men by Caroline Criado-Pérez

Date: Saturday, November 9, 2019

Time: 2:00pm

Host: Rizzoli Bookstore, 1133 Broadway (between 25th & 26th)

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Our speakers for the night will be Emily H Ho from Fordham and Samuel Crane from Amplify. Emily will be talking about working with psychological scales in R. Samuel will be talking about building a data dictionary using blogdown.

Date: Tuesday, October 22, 2019

Time: 6:30pm - 8:30pm

Speakers: Emily H Ho and Samuel Crane

Host: Amplify, 55 Washington St

Event Organizers: Ludmila Janda, Erin Grand

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Our speakers for the night will be Elizabeth Mauer and Kat Hoffman from Weill Cornell Medicine. Elizabeth will be talking about parameterized reporting in R Markdown. Kat will be discussing the Superlearner machine learning algorithm using the sl3 package.

Date: Tuesday, September 10, 2019

Time: 6:30pm - 8:30pm

Speakers: Elizabeth Mauer and Kat Hoffman

Host: Weill Cornell Medicine, 1300 York Ave

Event Organizers: Elizabeth Sweeney, Alejandra Gerosa

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R-Ladies NYC is proud and excited that one of our members, Emily Robinson, is co-authoring a book with a fellow R-lady, Jacqueline Nolis! The book, Build a Career in Data Science, is available for pre-order, which comes with online access to all currently available chapters (1-9) access to the rest of the chapters as they come out. This book is a practical guide to preparing for, finding, and excelling in a data science role.

Our speakers David Shilane and Madison Volpe will share tools and workflows to increase productivity and integrate R with Tableau.

Date: Monday, August 26, 2019

Time: 6:30pm - 8:30pm

Speakers: David Shilane and Madison Volpe

Host: AT&T NYC Data Science Research Center

Event Organizers: Gabriela Hempfling, Alejandra Gerosa

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Join us to discuss Data Visualization: A Practical Introduction by Kieran Healy

Date: Saturday, August 31, 2019

Time: 2:00pm

Host: Rizzoli Bookstore, 1133 Broadway (between 25th & 26th)

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The R-Ladies NYC call for a hex sticker design produced three creative and unique submissions. We would like to thank Ayanthi Gunawardana, Kat Hoffman, and Ludmila Janda for their involvement with the R-Ladies NYC community and time spent crafting their designs! Below, each of these R-Ladies shares her inspiration behind her design: Ayanthi Gunawardana: My goal was the keep the logo and colors as simple as possible to ensure it could be scaled to any size.

Come hang out with R-Ladies at the Royale Bar outdoor patio for an afternoon social full of fun, board games, and splendid R conversation!

Drinks and food will be available for purchase. Collaborative, multi-player and two-player table games will be provided, but feel free to bring your own!

Date: Saturday, July 13, 2019

Time: 2:00pm - 5:00pm

Location: Royale, 157 Loisaida Ave, New York, NY, 10009

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