Upcoming R Community Events (week of 2018-07-23)
Week's summary: 27 events in at least 6 countries.
Locations:
- Monday 2018-07-23, R-Ladies Seattle, Seattle, United States
- Tuesday 2018-07-24, Tampa R Users Group, Tampa, United States
- Tuesday 2018-07-24, Eugene R Users, Eugene, United States
- Tuesday 2018-07-24, Portland R User Group, Portland, United States
- Wednesday 2018-07-25, Bluenose-R - User Group, Halifax, Canada
- Wednesday 2018-07-25, Berlin R Users Group, 10179 Berlin, Germany
- Wednesday 2018-07-25, NottinghamR - Nottingham R Users Group, Nottingham, United Kingdom
- Wednesday 2018-07-25, R-Ladies East Lansing, East Lansing, United States
- Wednesday 2018-07-25, R-Ladies Washington D.C., Washington, United States
- Wednesday 2018-07-25, Greater Cleveland R Group, Independence, United States
- Wednesday 2018-07-25, R-Ladies Philly, Philadelphia, United States
- Wednesday 2018-07-25, Chicago R User Group (Chicago RUG, CRUG) Data and Statistics, Chicago, United States
- Wednesday 2018-07-25, R-Ladies Austin, Austin, United States
- Wednesday 2018-07-25, Austin R User Group, Austin, United States
- Wednesday 2018-07-25, R-Ladies Irvine, Irvine, United States
- Thursday 2018-07-26, CaRdiff - the Cardiff R User Group, Cardiff, United Kingdom
- Thursday 2018-07-26, Cape Fear R Users Group, Unknown Location
- Thursday 2018-07-26, MadR - Madison R Programming UseRs Group, Madison, United States
- Thursday 2018-07-26, San Carlos R User Group, Unknown Location
- Friday 2018-07-27, R-Ladies Austin, West Lake Hills, United States
- Friday 2018-07-27, R-Ladies London, London, United Kingdom
- Saturday 2018-07-28, R-Ladies Austin, Austin, United States
- Saturday 2018-07-28, Central Iowa R User Group, West des Moines, United States
- Saturday 2018-07-28, Inland Northwest R User Group (INRUG), Spokane, United States
- Saturday 2018-07-28, R-Ladies Los Angeles, Los Angeles, United States
- Sunday 2018-07-29, R-Ladies Remote, San Francisco, United States
- Sunday 2018-07-29, R-Ladies PDX, Portland, United States
- Don't see your event listed? Contact @rachael to get us synced-up with your group.
- If you are thinking of starting an R user group, have a look at the R Consortium R User Group Support Program. It provides financial support to run your r-user group and hooks you up with a pro meetup.com account, greatly easing the organizational load required to manage your group.
- If you are interested in starting an R-Ladies meetup group in your city, or would like to find out more information about starting a meetup group, reach out at
info[at]rladies[dot]org
and check out rladies.org.
July R-Ladies: Blogdown and Networking!
Date: 2018-07-23 at 18:30
Location: Seattle, United States
Description Snippet:
Isabella Velasquez will be giving a talk on how to create a website using blogdown. We'll follow that with a networking / unconference breakout session - come see us on Slack to vote on breakout topics.
... read more at the event page.Sign-up for this event at meetup.com
Venue: Convoy at 1501 4th Ave Floor 20, Seattle, wa, 98101, United States
Organized by R-Ladies Seattle
Social Network Analysis!
Date: 2018-07-24 at 19:00
Location: Tampa, United States
Description Snippet:
• What we'll do
Thomas Keller will walk us through social network analysis of Twitter data using rtweet and tidy principles.
• What to bring
If you wish to bring a laptop to follow along, code and slides will be posted ~24 hours in advance at https://github.com/TampaUseRs/TampaUseRs/tree/master/meetups
Sign-up for this event at meetup.com
Venue: Southern Brewing & Winemaking at 4500 North Nebraska Avenue, Tampa, United States
Organized by Tampa R Users Group
UO Library Services
Date: 2018-07-24 at 18:00
Location: Eugene, United States
Description Snippet:
Jonathan Cain, head of library services at the UO will join us to discuss the resources available to the community via the UO library services including R and other programming training, data management and archiving support https://library.uoregon.edu/
... read more at the event page.Sign-up for this event at meetup.com
Venue: Oregon Research Institute at 1776 Millrace Drive, Eugene, OR, 97403, United States
Organized by Eugene R Users
useR 2018 Watch Party
Date: 2018-07-24 at 18:00
Location: Portland, United States
Description Snippet:
useR 2018 just happened in Brisbane, Australia
The website: https://user2018.r-project.org/
We'll get together to watch a talk or two from useR 2018. The leading candidate right now to watch is Jenny Bryan's keynote, but its not currently available online, so we'll pick another if it's still not available the day of. We'll update with the final selection as soon as we know.
... read more at the event page.Sign-up for this event at meetup.com
Venue: Custom House/WeWork at 222 NW 8th Avenue, Portland, OR, , United States
Organized by Portland R User Group
Amelia McNamara - Key Attributes of a Modern Statistical Computing Environment
Date: 2018-07-25 at 12:00
Location: Halifax, Canada
Description Snippet:
Statistical computing tools are often separated into one of either: professional or educational tools. R is clearly a professional tool yet much of the variety of its functionality stems from the education and research industry. ... read more at the event page.
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Venue: Goldberg Faculty of Computer Science - Jacob Slonim Room (430 at 6050 University Avenue, Halifax, NS, , Canada
Organized by Bluenose-R - User Group
#29 data bases in pliers
Date: 2018-07-25 at 19:00
Location: 10179 Berlin, Germany
Description Snippet:
Kirill Müller will present about the DBI projects in the R consortium. Mikhail (Misha) Balyasin will continue "touring the tidyverse" with a session on dplyr.
During the last two years, Kirill Müller was part of the "Improving DBI" and “Establishing DBI” projects, funded by the R Consortium.
... read more at the event page.
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Venue: Hypoport at Klosterstr. 71, 10179 Berlin, Germany
Organized by Berlin R Users Group
NottinghamR Quarterly Meetup
Date: 2018-07-25 at 18:00
Location: Nottingham, United Kingdom
Description Snippet:
Welcome to the next meeting of the NottinghamR group!
Agenda for this Meetup:
We're aiming to have four talks in this session - hence the earlier start time than normal!
... read more at the event page.Sign-up for this event at meetup.com
Venue: Capital One at Station Street, Nottingham, United Kingdom
Organized by NottinghamR - Nottingham R Users Group
Kick-off meeting
Date: 2018-07-25 at 18:00
Location: East Lansing, United States
Description Snippet:
*Agenda*
– Who we are & what we do
– Meet & Greet
– Pick your topics, activities, roles
– Snapshot: Data Visualization w/ R
* Please fill out the Pre-meeting Survey: https://bit.ly/rlel-gettingstarted
* ... read more at the event page.
Sign-up for this event at meetup.com
Venue: Biomedical & Physical Sciences Building at 567 Wilson Road, East Lansing, MI, , United States
Organized by R-Ladies East Lansing
Workshop Leaders and Organizer Team Interest Meeting
Date: 2018-07-25 at 18:00
Location: Washington, United States
Description Snippet:
This is an interest meeting for R-Ladies who would like to lead an event or join our team of organizers for the[masked] season. R-Ladies is an R users group organized by women and non-binary individuals.
... read more at the event page.Sign-up for this event at meetup.com
Venue: WeWork Apollo at 810 7th Street Northeast, Washington, United States
Organized by R-Ladies Washington D.C.
Intro to Machine Learning in R
Date: 2018-07-25 at 18:00
Location: Independence, United States
Description Snippet:
This talk was given in May at Stir Trek 2018 in Columbus OH. A whirlwind tour of supervised learning, unsupervised learning, data exploration and deep learning in R. The idea is to survey the landscape of what is possible, and suggest next steps for aspiring machine learners.
... read more at the event page.Sign-up for this event at meetup.com
Venue: Crown Centre Building at 5005 Rockside Road, Independence, OH, 44131, United States
Organized by Greater Cleveland R Group
Coffee and Coding
Date: 2018-07-25 at 18:30
Location: Philadelphia, United States
Description Snippet:
Join R-Ladies Philly for a relaxing Wednesday evening of coffee, conversation, and coding!
We will meet at Chapterhouse Cafe from 6:30-8:30PM on July 25, 2018 for an informal opportunity to share current R projects with one another, debug code, and network (and of course indulge in delicious coffee and pastry).
Please bring your laptop. The cafe has free WiFi, but attendees are responsible for paying for their own food/drink.
Because space is limited, we can only accommodate 20 attendees - please RSVP before space runs out!
See you there!
... read more at the event page.Sign-up for this event at meetup.com
Venue: Chapterhouse Cafe & Gallery at 620 S 9th St, Philadelphia, PA, 19147, United States
Organized by R-Ladies Philly
CRUG & ChiPy: The cross-over meetup of the year!
Date: 2018-07-25 at 17:59
Location: Chicago, United States
Description Snippet:
CRUG and ChiPy are holding their first ever joint R and Python meetup! We've got an R talk, we've got a Python talk, we've even got R AND Python talks, and we'll host a Round table discussion about R and Python!
https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/m ... read more at the event page.Sign-up for this event at meetup.com
Venue: Braintree Payments at 222 Merchandise Mart Plaza Suite 800, Chicago, IL, , United States
Organized by Chicago R User Group (Chicago RUG, CRUG) Data and Statistics
Lightning Talks: Joint Meetup with Austin R User Group at Dell Med
Date: 2018-07-25 at 18:30
Location: Austin, United States
Description Snippet:
Come join us for a night of networking and lightning talks with the Austin R User Group. Drinks and food courtesy of Merck's Austin IT Hub.
6:30-7: Networking + Free Food
7-8:30: Lightning Talks
Confirmed speakers:
Laura Ellis (IBM)
"Creating pretty map visualizations with the ggmap package"
Karena Yu (Merck)
“Building a Geospatial Heat Map with Plotly & Shiny”
Daniel Woodie (Merck)
"Reactive Applications with Shiny"
*Interested in speaking? Please reach out!*
... read more at the event page.Sign-up for this event at meetup.com
Venue: Health Discovery Building at 1701 Trinity Street, Austin, tx, 78705, United States
Organized by R-Ladies Austin
Joint Meetup with R-Ladies Austin at Dell Med
Date: 2018-07-25 at 19:00
Location: Austin, United States
Description Snippet:
Come join us for a night of networking and lightning talks with R-Ladies Austin. Drinks and food courtesy of Merck's Austin IT Hub.
6:30-7: Networking + Free Food
7-8:30: Lightning Talks
Confirmed speakers:
Confirmed speakers:
Laura Ellis (IBM)
"Creating pretty map visualizations with the ggmap package"
Sign-up for this event at meetup.com
Venue: Health Discovery Building at 1701 Trinity Street, Austin, tx, 78705, United States
Organized by Austin R User Group
Lightning Talks!
Date: 2018-07-25 at 19:00
Location: Irvine, United States
Description Snippet:
Hi everyone!
This month's meeting will be a series of lightning talks given by **you!**
... read more at the event page.Sign-up for this event at meetup.com
Venue: UC Irvine at Irvine, CA, Irvine, CA, 92618, United States
Organized by R-Ladies Irvine
TalkRs
Date: 2018-07-26 at 18:00
Location: Cardiff, United Kingdom
Description Snippet:
A laid-back get together to discuss aspects of R and data science, and get help on any current data challenges you're having.
You don't have to come along every fortnight but if you're looking to learn R, commiserate over the latest stumbling block, or help others learn R, we'd love to meet you!
... read more at the event page.Sign-up for this event at meetup.com
Venue: Bar 33 at 33 Windsor Place, Cardiff, United Kingdom
Organized by CaRdiff - the Cardiff R User Group
Case Study On Predictive Modeling Using R
Date: 2018-07-26 at 18:30
Location: See event signup, orgainized by Cape Fear R Users Group
Description Snippet:
Brad Elliot will highlight some of the packages (dplyr, tidyr, and ggplot2) he used for data cleaning, manipulating and visualization and how he used the data to build logistic regression, decision tree and random forest models for prediction.
... read more at the event page.Sign-up for this event at meetup.com
Venue: TBD, see event signup link at Meetup
Organized by Cape Fear R Users Group
Topic TBD
Date: 2018-07-26 at 18:00
Location: Madison, United States
Description Snippet:
The topic is yet to be determined. Please fill out the survey to help determine what the topic(s) will be: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/9R9CN7L
... read more at the event page.Sign-up for this event at meetup.com
Venue: AT UW STUDENT UNION(South) at 1308 West Dayton STreet, Madison, WI, 53715, United States
Organized by MadR - Madison R Programming UseRs Group
Reunion Usuarios R
Date: 2018-07-26 at 19:00
Location: See event signup, orgainized by San Carlos R User Group
Description Snippet:
19:00 - 20:00 Reunión de Usuarios R
Organizamos las reuniones del Grupo de Usuarios R en linea, y por lo tanto no hay cupo para mas que 25 participantes. Mas informacion sobre la agenda en nuestro sitio web: http://sancarlos-rug.github.io/
... read more at the event page.Sign-up for this event at meetup.com
Venue: TBD, see event signup link at Meetup
Organized by San Carlos R User Group
Women's Machine Learning Bootcamp!
Date: 2018-07-27 at 08:00
Location: West Lake Hills, United States
Description Snippet:
RSVP here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/women-in-tech-machine-learning-product-hackathon-tickets-45897966052
... read more at the event page.Sign-up for this event at meetup.com
Venue: Expero, Inc. at 305 Camp Craft Road, West Lake Hills, United States
Organized by R-Ladies Austin
Shiny Dashboard Workshop
Date: 2018-07-27 at 18:30
Location: London, United Kingdom
Description Snippet:
Registration via Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/shiny-dashboard-workshop-tickets-46765574091
... read more at the event page.Sign-up for this event at meetup.com
Venue: King at The Ampersand Building 178, Wardour Street, WC1B 3AA, London, United Kingdom
Organized by R-Ladies London
Women's Machine Learning Product Hackathon!
Date: 2018-07-28 at 08:00
Location: Austin, United States
Description Snippet:
RSVP here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/women-in-tech-machine-learning-product-hackathon-tickets-45897966052
... read more at the event page.Sign-up for this event at meetup.com
Venue: Capital Factory at 701 Brazos St Ste 1601, Austin, TX, , United States
Organized by R-Ladies Austin
R and Python study group
Date: 2018-07-28 at 10:00
Location: West des Moines, United States
Description Snippet:
Are you tired of learning and playing with Python and R alone? Would you like to get together with a few friends and learn together? I have been starting to learn R and Python for data science and following the typical route of videos and practice projects. I really want to ramp up my learning and exposure to different ways. Here is my proposal:
... read more at the event page.Sign-up for this event at meetup.com
Venue: Panera Bread at 4150 Westown Pkwy, West des Moines, IA, 50265, United States
Organized by Central Iowa R User Group
Using R to study impact of exclusion policies of schools during a mumps outbreak
Date: 2018-07-28 at 09:30
Location: Spokane, United States
Description Snippet:
Mumps is a contagious viral disease that primarily affects school-aged children. Before the introduction of the MMR vaccine, hundreds of thousands of cases occurred annually in the US. While the vaccine was successful in dramatically reducing the number of cases, growing trends against childhood vaccinations since the 1990s have reduced vaccination coverage, with consequent re-emergence of mumps. Most jurisdictions of the United States allow parents to exempt their children from vaccination requirements that are mandatory for school enrollment. In response to reduced vaccination rates, some jurisdictions (e. g. Spokane county) grant health officers authority to exclude under-vaccinated students from school during mumps outbreaks for the length of the incubation period (up to 25 days) after their last exposure to a mumps case. During the winter of[masked], 333 probable and confirmed cases of mumps were reported in the Spokane area. Under-vaccinated students in 33 schools were exclude ... read more at the event page.
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Venue: Gonzaga University School of Business Administration at Room: Jepson 120, Spokane, WA, , United States
Organized by Inland Northwest R User Group (INRUG)
Data Visualization! R-Ladies July meetup
Date: 2018-07-28 at 12:00
Location: Los Angeles, United States
Description Snippet:
Hi Los Angeles R-Ladies!
We'll be having our next meetup on July 28th at 12pm on campus at UCLA.
... read more at the event page.Sign-up for this event at meetup.com
Venue: **Mildred E Mathias Botanical Garden ** at 777 Tiverton Drive , Los Angeles, CA, , United States
Organized by R-Ladies Los Angeles
July Slack Coffee Chat
Date: 2018-07-29 at 12:00
Location: San Francisco, United States
Description Snippet:
July 29th at 7pm GMT (UTC 0)
https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html?iso=20180729T190000&p1=224&p2=136&p3=tz_gmt
We'll all be hanging out in the R Ladies Remote Slack #CoffeeChat channel talking about R and working remote. Very casual, just a way to get to meet some of the other remote R Ladies and build community. Also a great way to share your ideas with the organizers!
To join the slack please sign up for our email list, and you will receive an invite
eepurl.com/dy1bm1
... read more at the event page.Sign-up for this event at meetup.com
Venue: San Francisco, CA at San Francisco, CA, San Francisco, Ca, , United States
Organized by R-Ladies Remote
South Waterfront Study Group
Date: 2018-07-29 at 12:00
Location: Portland, United States
Description Snippet:
Bi-weekly, informal study group.
I'm committing to 2 hours per week to improve my data science skills and I'm inviting others to join me!
Currently working through "R for Data Science" http://r4ds.had.co.nz/ and "Deep Learning with R" https://www.manning.com/books/deep-learning-with-r
If you would prefer a different time, topic, or location please reach out to me about hosting your own study group!
... read more at the event page.Sign-up for this event at meetup.com
Venue: OHSU Center for Health & Healing (Bottom of Tram by the River) at 3303 SW Bond Ave, Portland, OR, 97239, United States
Organized by R-Ladies PDX