<p>Hi everyone!</p> <p>Per your requests, we're having a tutorial on interactive data visualization with R Shiny and using R with a related data visualization platform, Tableau!</p> <p>Guest speaker Dave Forse will lead a 45-minute tutorial on data visualization with R and Tableau, and the R-Ladies Irvine co-organizers will show you how to create an R Shiny application in under an hour.</p> <p>Please bring your laptops and have R, RStudio, and the tidyverse and shiny packages (all open-source and free) installed and working. However, if you're having issues with any of these, don't worry! We're all here to help. :)</p> <p>To Install R: <a href="https://cran.r-project.org/" class="linkified">https://cran.r-project.org/</a><br/>To Install RStudio: <a href="https://www.rstudio.com/products/rstudio/download/" class="linkified">https://www.rstudio.com/products/rstudio/download/</a><br/>To Install the Tidyverse Package: <a href="https://www.tidyverse.org/" class="linkified">https://www.tidyverse.org/</a><br/>To Install the Shiny Package: <a href="https://shiny.rstudio.com/" class="linkified">https://shiny.rstudio.com/</a></p> <p>You can install Tableau for free as a student (<a href="https://www.tableau.com/academic/students" class="linkified">https://www.tableau.com/academic/students</a>) or with a trial (<a href="https://www.tableau.com/products/trial" class="linkified">https://www.tableau.com/products/trial</a>).</p> <p>Schedule:<br/>6:30pm - 7:00pm: Welcome and Networking<br/>7:00pm - 8:30pm: Announcements and Tutorial</p> <p>Map of UC Irvine:<br/><a href="https://communications.uci.edu/documents/pdf/UCI_16_map_campus.pdf" class="linkified">https://communications.uci.edu/documents/pdf/UCI_16_map_campus.pdf</a></p> <p>Parking Map:<br/><a href="https://communications.uci.edu/documents/pdf/UCI_12_map_vis_pkg.pdf" class="linkified">https://communications.uci.edu/documents/pdf/UCI_12_map_vis_pkg.pdf</a><br/>Note: you’ll have to pay for hourly parking if you park in any of these lots (or you’ll risk a ticket).</p> <p>Healthy snacks will be provided. :)<br/>Free tidyverse hex stickers will also be given out.</p> <p>Slides will be sent out and posted on our GitHub after the meeting.</p>