<p>R-Ladies Dublin next meetup is kindly hosted by NewsWhip.</p> <p>Join us for an evening of networking and super-interesting talks.</p> <p>When &amp; Where</p> <p>Thursday, 21st February<br/>NewsWhip - 47 Merrion Square, Dublin 2</p> <p>The Agenda</p> <p>6:30-7:00 Networking<br/>7:00-7:15 John Flynn - Demo - Use R to analyse media coverage<br/>7:15-8:30 Ilaria Torre - Create great data visualisations with ggplot (talk &amp; hands-on programming)</p> <p>The Speakers</p> <p>Ilaria Torre - Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Trinity College Dublin</p> <p>Ilaria's research is focused on trust in Human-Machine Interaction. Ilaria has a PhD from the University of Plymouth, during which she learned R and used it on a daily basis to run statistical analyses, create plots, and even write her dissertation. You can find out more about Ilaria's research here: <a href="http://edge-research.eu/fellows/ilaria-torre/" class="linkified">http://edge-research.eu/fellows/ilaria-torre/</a></p> <p>In her talk Ilaria will go through the main concepts behind ggplot and will show us how to create some cool plots. This talk is suitable for beginners of both R and ggplot, but there will be plenty of handy tricks for more advanced users.</p> <p>John Flynn - Insights Analyst at NewsWhip</p> <p>John will demo how he uses R in a production environment to analyse media coverage of candidates for the 2020 American presidential election.</p> <p>---</p> <p>If you want to follow along Ilaria's talk on your laptop, it would be good if you had the latest version of R and ggplot already installed. Ilaria will be using the R Studio interface, but it's optional.</p> <p>Download R: <a href="https://cran.r-project.org/" class="linkified">https://cran.r-project.org/</a><br/>(Optional) download R Studio: <a href="https://www.rstudio.com/products/rstudio/download/" class="linkified">https://www.rstudio.com/products/rstudio/download/</a></p> <p>To install ggplot, type the following into the R console and press ENTER after each line:<br/>install.packages("ggplot2")<br/>library(ggplot2)</p>