R-Ladies Boulder

Presentations and materials from R-Ladies Boulder events and discussions.

Upcoming events (we plan for the second Tuesday of the month)

• Meeting 27: TBD
  • Tuesday, June 14, 2022
  • Meetup event

Past Events

2022

• Meeting 26: Government Data

  • Tuesday, May 10, 2022
  • Christina Brady walked through some common (and some lesser known) data sets published by the federal government as well as some state and local data sources.
  • Materials
  • Meetup event

• Meeting 24: rtweet Tutorial!

  • Tuesday, March 8, 2022
  • Zane Dax walked through the rtweet package documentation (https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/rtweet/rtweet.pdf).
  • Materials
  • Meetup event

• Meeting 22: Frequentist & Bayesian Random Effects Models in R: RStan Tutorial

  • Tuesday, January 11, 2022
  • Amanda Koepke presented on random effects modeling in RStan.
  • Meetup event

2021

• Meeting 21: Ugly Holiday Plot contest

  • Tuesday, December 14, 2021
  • Meetup event

• Meeting 20: Reproducible Code & Visualization Best Practices

  • Tuesday, November 9, 2021
  • Lara Southard, PhD walked us through Reproducible Code (including the Project Template library) and Visualization Best Practices. Lara is a Sr. Research Scientist at Pearson and has her PhD in Cognitive Neuroscience from CSU.
  • Recording
  • Materials
  • Meetup event

• Meeting 17: From csv to Slippy Map - Intro to Spatial Data in R

  • Tuesday, August 10, 2021
  • Anna Spiers introduced spatial data broadly, and covered some of the basic workflows and troubleshooting steps in R. Specifically, we worked with vector data, focused on the sp and sf libraries, and produced an interactive map in R.
  • Meetup event

• Meeting 14: rstudio::global 2021 Conference Talk Watch Party

  • Tuesday, May 11, 2021
  • Materials
  • Meetup event

• Meeting 13: Lasso, Ridge, and Elastic Net Regression

  • Tuesday, April 13, 2021
  • Marta Jankowska gave us a tutorial on Elastic Net, Ridge, and Lasso Regression approaches.
  • Materials
  • Meetup event

2020

• Meeting 10: Introduction to Flexdashboards

  • Tuesday, November 10, 2020
  • Hilary Traut guided us through the basics of flexdashboard. Flexdashboards are a widely useful method (based in R Markdown) for presenting interactive analysis reports, usually focusing on graphs or other types of data visuals.
  • Materials
  • Meetup event

• Meeting 9: Unsupervised Clustering Methods in R

  • Tuesday, October 13, 2020
  • Dr. Marta Jankowska showed us the ropes of some common machine learning algorithms in R. She focused on unsupervised clustering methods.
  • Materials
  • Meetup event

• Meeting 8: Lightning Talks!

  • Tuesday, September 8, 2020
  • Teaching R to undergraduates (Speaker: Kelly Carscadden)
  • Meetup event

• Meeting 7: Virtual Happy Hour!

  • Tuesday, July 14, 2020
  • Meetup event

• Meeting 6: Introduction to Shiny!

  • Tuesday, March 10, 2020
  • Lisa Moller gave us a tutorial on how to build an R Shiny app from scratch.
  • Materials
  • Meetup event

• Meeting 5: Coding Hour and Networking

  • Tuesday, February 11, 2020
  • We met, chatted and coded!
  • Meetup event

• Meeting 4: Introduction to Building R Packages

  • Tuesday, January 14, 2020
  • Leigh Alexander gave us a tutorial on how to build an R package from the ground up.
  • Materials
  • Meetup event

2019

• Meeting 3: Ugly Holiday Plot Contest

  • Tuesday, December 10, 2019
  • We shared our ugliest holiday-themed plots!
  • Meetup event

• Meeting 2: TidyTuesday

  • Tuesday, October 8, 2019
  • We participated in TidyTuesday. A fun, low-stress coding challenge posted weekly by the R4DS online learning community.
  • For more information on TidyTuesday, see here: https://github.com/rfordatascience/tidytuesday
  • Meetup event

• Meeting 1: R-Ladies-Boulder Kickoff Meeting

  • Tuesday, September 10, 2019
  • Welcome from the organizers...
    • Courtney VanDenElzen
    • Marta Jankowska
    • Leigh Alexander
    • Lisa Moller
  • Introductions around the room and discussions about what we want from the group!
  • Materials
  • Meetup event