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Thank you so much to Anisha BharathSingh, who originally wrote this post for her blog, found here. We are reposting her post with her consent. If you are an R-Lady interested in writing a blog post or cross-posting a blog post on your own blog, please let us know (via email nyc@rladies.org or via DM on twitter @RLadiesNYC)! On Thursday, May 23, I attended my first R-Ladies NYC meetup! R-Ladies NYC is an organization that promotes gender diversity amongst the R community by organizing a series of events (including this meetup) to support women who want to learn R or want to share their experiences as R programmers.

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

Date: Wednesday, June 19, 2019

Time: 6:00pm - 9:00pm

Speakers: A whole lot of R ladies!

Host: OppenheimerFunds

Event Organizers: Brooke Watson, Elizbeth Sweeny

Meetup page

The New York R conference attracts a diverse yet technical audience which means the bar is high for all invited speakers. This year, over half the speakers were women, including several R-Ladies NYC members. It was such a fun and good experience that we decided to collaborate and write a blog post to encourage others to speak at conferences and provide some tips. Speakers: Ludmila Janda, Emily Robinson, Emily Dodwell, Gabriela Hempfling, Elizabeth Sweeny, Soumya Kalra, Brooke Watson, Amanda Dobbyn, Letisha Smith

Join us to discuss How Not To Be Wrong by Jordan Ellenberg

Date: Saturday, May 25th, 2019

Time: 2:00pm

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

Meetup page

R-Ladies NYC are excited to be hosting an evening of lightning talks on Wednesday June 19! We held this event last year and it was a tremendous success, so we are really excited about the event this year! Lighting talks are five minute talks. You can talk about anything R, Tech, and/or Data Science related. Looking for ideas? How about talking about a cool package you found, how you use R in your company, a favorite learning resource, your journey into Data Science, or a side project you’ve been working on?

We are excited to announce that we are holding open submissions for an R-Ladies NYC logo for hex stickers! Design notes: the R-Ladies font is Open Sans and the colors are #88398a (Purple) & #a7a9ac (Gray), though the logo can use variants of these colors and other colors. Here is the repo for the R-Ladies logo as a reference. Also, the hexSticker package is useful, but you are welcome to use any tool you desire!

Angeline and Kaelen will discuss their transition into Data Science.

Date: Thursday, May 23rd, 2019

Time: 6:30pm - 8:30pm

Speakers: Angeline Protacio and Kaelen Medeiros

Host: JP Morgan

Event Organizer: Emily Robinson

Meetup page

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 excited this month to host two very active R-Ladies from our chapter: Amanda Dobbyn and Maryam Jahanshahi! See our Meetup page to RSVP. Details Date Tuesday, February 12, 2019 Time 6:00pm Host WeWork (205 Hudson S) Amanda’s talk will focus on the package ‘drake’. Drake is a package designed to make designing and executing analysis pipelines easier and more reproducible. In this talk Amanda will run through an example of how drake can be used to manage an analysis workflow.

At our next book club meeting, we’ll discuss Algorithms to Live By, by Brian Christian and Tom Griffiths.

Visit our Meetup page to RSVP.

Details

Please support our wonderful host bookstore, Rizzoli, by ordering the book directly from them through this link

Date Saturday, January 26, 2019

Time 2:00pm

Host Rizzoli Bookstore (1133 Broadway Ave)