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Getting Started with Unit Testing in R

Shannon Pileggi and Gordon Shotwell led a hands-on workshop on how to get started with unit testing in R at the R-Ladies Philly November meetup. This workshop picked up exactly where we left our little ralph (aka R-Ladies Philly) package one year ago at the R package development workshop “Your first R package in 1 hour: Tools that make R package development easy”.
Nov 15, 2021 1 min read

Alicia Johnson presents Bayes Rules!

Bayesian statistics can be really intimidating! Alicia and her co-authors set out to demystify Bayesian statistics. On October 18th, 2021, we hosted Alicia for an interactive workshop on Bayesian statistics in R where we learned about the difference between Bayesian and Frequentist statistics and how to work with Bayesian statistics in R with the bayesrules R package.
Oct 25, 2021 1 min read

Mapping COVID-19 Vaccination Across the US

Michelle Chiu prepared and delivered the R-Ladies Philly July workshop, which provided a hands-on introduction on how to display data onto relevant geographic locations using R. All of Michelle’s materials are available in the GitHub repo for the workshop.
Jul 17, 2021 2 min read

Panel Discussion: What Are Hiring Managers Looking For in Candidates?

On June 3rd 2021, we partnered with DataPhilly and The DataLab to host a panel event with hiring managers in the fields of Data Science and Data Engineering
Jun 19, 2021 2 min read

How do judges judge? A community effort exploring Philadelphia's judicial patterns through data

This post originally appeared as a guest post on Technical.ly Philly The 2021 R-Ladies Philly and Judge Accountability Table community datathon brought together data science enthusiasts to shed light on judicial trends in Philadelphia.
Jun 9, 2021 5 min read

March and April 2021: JAT datathon

For this year datathon, we partnered with the Judge Accountability Table (JAT) - a coalition of organizations working toward a shared mission of holding judicial candidates and judges accountable to our community’s vision of justice, and engaged R enthusiasts to explore judicial patterns in Philadelphia courts.
Apr 28, 2021 3 min read

February 2021: From Learn-R to Teach-R

Our February 2021 event On February 18th, we gathered virtually for a lively and engaging panel discussion on teaching R effectively. The event kicked off with some announcements and then introductions to our three panelists.
Feb 28, 2021 7 min read

January 2021: Introduction to R dashboard development with Shiny Dashboard

January 2021 Event For our January meetup, Anastasia Lucas gave a fantastic introductory workshop on Shiny Dashboard in R using the “shinydashboard” package. Various facets of dashboard development such as reactivity, appearance (i.
Jan 28, 2021 2 min read

December 2020: Data Visualization

Take a sad chart and make it better On December 8, we were incredibly fortunate to have Trang Le lead us through a data visualization workshop. You can find a recording of the meetup on our YouTube channel.
Dec 12, 2020 2 min read

2020 Nov: Your first R package in 1 hour

Package development can be intimidating, but it doesn’t have to be! In this month’s workshop, Shannon Pileggi gives us a step by step guide for how to get started, and shares her experience with “usethis”, “devtools” and various handy functions for package development.
Dec 7, 2020 2 min read Meetups