<p>Hi All</p> <p>We are very excited to have Steph Locke from <a href="https://itsalocke.com/" class="linkified">https://itsalocke.com/</a> at this month's meetup.</p> <p>** Time **</p> <p>6:00 arrival for a 6:30pm start.</p> <p>** Bio **</p> <p>Steph is the founder of a consultancy in the UK. Her talks, blog posts, conferences, and business all have one thing in common – they help people get started with data science. Steph holds the Microsoft MVP award for her community contributions. In her spare time, Steph plays board games with her husband and takes copious pictures of her doggos.</p> <p>Currently, Steph organises MSFT Stack which is the SQL group, the .Net group, and more combined, plus CaRdiff, the local R group.</p> <p><a href="https://itsalocke.com/company/steph/#kit-for-event-organisers" class="linkified">https://itsalocke.com/company/steph/#kit-for-event-organisers</a></p> <p>** Abstract **</p> <p>Learn SQL from the comfort of RStudio in this 2.5 hour hands-on workshop. Using SQLite as our database of choice, we’ll learn the fundamentals of good data structures, querying single datasets, and combining multiple datasets for getting answers from across your database.</p> <p>** What to bring **</p> <p>Laptops with R, RStudio, and Packages: RSQLite, rmarkdown installed, arrive early if you are a beginner and would like help with your R install.</p> <p>Soft drinks will be provided.</p> <p>As with all our meetups all levels of R welcome, from beginners to regular users. Our meetups are about sharing knowledge and inspiring others. <a href="https://rladies.org/about-us/" class="linkified">https://rladies.org/about-us/</a></p> <p>Please read the code of conduct before attending this meetup.</p> <p>** Training Day **</p> <p>If anyone would like an intro to R that covers data wrangling, data viz, and data science, my training day can be booked standalone by contacting the organisers [masked]</p> <p>Details at <a href="http://difinity.co.nz/pre-conference-workshops-difinity-2019/#R" class="linkified">http://difinity.co.nz/pre-conference-workshops-difinity-2019/#R</a></p>