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R-Ladies Book Club

Details For our November book club, we’ll be discussing “The Manager’s Path: A Guide for Tech Leaders Navigating Growth and Change” by Camille Fournier. 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. R-Ladies is dedicated to providing a harassment-free experience for everyone.

R-Wars Tidyverse vs. Base R and Writing Reports in R Markdown

Details For our November event, we will have two guest speakers. Dorota Biedzio will discuss the advantages and disadvantages between the tidyverse and base R. Alyssa Goldberg will teach us how to batch-process reports using RMarkdown. 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): 7:05pm - 7:10pm: R-Ladies NYC Announcements 7:10pm - 7:40pm: Dorota’s talk on tidyverse vs.

R-Ladies NYC Lightning Talks

Details We are excited to host an online version of one our most popular events - R-Ladies NYC Lightning Talks! We are extending the submission deadline to provide more support for interested speakers, and have added a speaker workshop on 9⁄23 to provide guidance and support. If you are interested in proposing a talk but want to brainstorm ideas, get feedback, or some encouragement, join us for the event on 9⁄23 and RSVP on our meetup page.

Panel Discussion Working with and Learning from COVID-19 data

Details We are thrilled to host a series of experts to discuss their experiences working with different types of COVID-19 data, insights they’ve gleaned, and challenges they’ve encountered with these complex and rapidly evolving data. This event will be hosted over Zoom; the link will be available on this page the morning of the event, and the passcode will be emailed to you. R-Ladies is dedicated to providing a harassment-free experience for everyone.

R-Ladies NYC Lightning Talks (Prep and Submission Workshop)

Details We are excited to host an online version of one our most popular events this fall - R-Ladies NYC Lightning Talks! We are extending the submission deadline, and are holding this workshop to provide guidance and support for interested speakers. If you are interested in proposing a talk but want to brainstorm ideas, get feedback, or some encouragement, join us! — Talk Abstract — Lighting talks are five minute talks.

Publishing your R or Data Science book with Chapman & Hall/CRC

Details Together with the R-Ladies DC and Chicago chapters, we are thrilled to co-host this lunchtime presentation with editors from Chapman & Hall/CRC Press. This event will be hosted over Zoom; the link will be available on this page the morning of the event, and the passcode will be emailed to you. R-Ladies is dedicated to providing a harassment-free experience for everyone. We do not tolerate harassment of participants in any form.

Making Plots to Explore Data Using R

Details For our August event, we are excited to host Professor Di Cook of Monash University who will be presenting strategies for making plots to explore data using R. There is an interactive component to her talk, and she has requested that attendees download packages tidyverse, plotly, forcats, and nullabor from CRAN, as well as yowie from Github using remotes::install_github(“numbats/yowie”). 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.

R-Ladies Book Club - Algorithms of Oppression

Details For our August book club, we’ll be discussing “Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism” by Safiya Umoja Noble. Important Update: While this month’s Book Club was originally scheduled to be in person, in light of oppressive heat this week in NYC and expected thunderstorms throughout the afternoon of Saturday, August 14th, this will now be an online event. The zoom link will be available on this page Saturday morning, and a message with the meeting passcode will go out at that time.

Creating model en mass with workflowsets

Details For our second July event, we are excited to host Max Kuhn of RStudio who will be presenting on the workflowsets package. 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 7:05-7:50: “Creating model en mass with workflowsets” 7:50-8:15: Questions and wrap-up — Talk Abstract —

The Epidemiologist R Handbook

Details For our July event, we are excited to host authors Neale Batra, Aminata Ndiaye, and Paula Blomquist, who will present the Epidemiologist R Handbook, a free new code reference book targeted to R users working in applied epidemiology and public health, but handy for anyone. 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.