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2020 Oct: Flexdashboard debugging with shinyobjects

Shiny applications and dashboards help communicate analytics insights to both technical and non-technical audiences in an interactive and efficient way. However, debugging them is not an easy process. For 2020 October virtual meetup, 30+ data enthusiastics joined the interactive workshop led by R-Ladies Philly member Jake Riley.
Oct 26, 2020 2 min read Meetups

Decision Trees & Random Forests

Our September 2020 meetup was on the topic of Decision Trees & Random Forests. It featured three presentations on the topic of tree-based models in R: Hierarchical clustering in R (Kavana Rudresh)
Sep 15, 2020 3 min read Meetups

So you want to teach a workshop!

Teaching a workshop with R-Ladies At R-Ladies Philly, we have held over 40 events since our first meetup in January 2018! Some of our events are networking focused like our happy hour events.
Aug 15, 2020 4 min read

August 2020: Hands on Machine Learning Workshop

Our August Virtual Workshop Five months into the U.S. Coronavirus pandemic R-Ladies Philly continues to host monthly events virtually. In August we hosted “Hands-On Machine Learning Workshop” by Jaclyn Taroni.
Aug 13, 2020 2 min read

July 2020: How to Test and Roll

This month R Ladies Philly hosted Elea McDonnell Feit and Ron Berman for a follow up to our previous MeetUp “A/B Testing in R with Elea McDonnell Feit”.
Jul 26, 2020 2 min read Meetups

June 2020: Intro to R Workshop

Our June Virtual Workshop R-Ladies Philly continues to host free online events during the Coronavirus pandemic. On June 9th, we hosted an introduction to R workshop for beginners with a featured lighting talk.
Jun 28, 2020 2 min read

A/B Testing in R with Elea McDonnell Feit

R-Ladies Philly was delighted to host Elea McDonnell Feit, who led a virtual workshop on the topic of A/B Testing in R. Our presenter Elea McDonnell Feit is an Assistant Professor of Marketing at the LeBow College of Business at Drexel University.
Jun 27, 2020 3 min read

April Recap: tidyverse

On April 14th, R-Ladies Philly hosted our first virtual meetup event. It was an exciting interactive workshop on tidyverse, led by our member Kelsey Keith. Kelsey is an associate bioinformatics scientist at Coriell Institute for Medical Research, who uses R daily to wrangle, test, and visualize data.
Jun 13, 2020 3 min read

Announcing Our New YouTube Channel

With the recent transition to running R-Ladies Philly workshops and events virtually, we have launched a YouTube channel, R-Ladies Philly! We plan to share recordings of our events whenever possible.
Jun 11, 2020 1 min read

The 2020 Opioid Data Hack

In early 2020, R-Ladies Philly joined forces with Code for Philly, DataPhilly, and the Philly Data Jawn to organize a data science hackathon addressing Philadelphia’s opioid crisis. Organizers partnered with the Health Federation of Philadelphia and Prevention Point to obtain data and subject matter expertise that would help hackathon participants focus on the most pressing issues.
May 26, 2020 5 min read