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January Recap

Our January meetup marked an important event in R-Ladies Philly history - our first ‘birthday’! We honored this occasion by celebrating what our community has achieved over the past year, and planning for an exciting 2019.
Feb 1, 2019 2 min read

December Recap

We collaborated with Women in Kaggle Philly to provide an Introduction to Machine Learning (ML). ML is the science of getting computers to learn from data without explicit programming. ML has led to advances in speech recognition, tumor identification, self-driving cars, and many other arenas.
Jan 2, 2019 3 min read

November Recap - Geographic Information Systems

Geographic Information Systems or GIS are specialized technology used for spatial data that require mapping. In our November meetup, R-Ladies Philly member and GIS Specialist Mary Lennon introduced R-Ladies Philly to manipulating and plotting spatial data from our favorite city (Philly!
Dec 4, 2018 19 min read

October Recap - Dashboards and Apps with Shiny

Shiny is an R Package that combines the computational power of R with the interactivity of the web to enable users to create interactive web apps (and dashboards!) in R.
Oct 17, 2018 3 min read

September Recap: Learn to make a website with R and blogdown!

In our September meetup hosted at the Penn Dental School, R-Ladies LA founder and recent Philadelphia transplant Dr. Katie Scranton led an interactive workshop on making websites (like this one!
Sep 19, 2018 3 min read

August recap: Data Cleaning with R, Part 2

Data cleaning is the process of preparing your data for analysis; ensuring that it is technically correct and in the desired format. Data cleaning can often be more time-consuming than the actual analysis!
Aug 15, 2018 2 min read Meetups

June recap: Data Cleaning with R

Our June meetup Our June meetup was about cleaning data using R. Data cleaning is the process of preparing your data for analysis; ensuring that it is technically correct and in the desired format.
Jun 21, 2018 2 min read Meetups

May recap: Git happieR with GitHub

Our May Event! The May R-Ladies meetup took place on May 16, 2018 at Drexel’s LeBow School of Business. Thanks for hosting us again, Drexel, and thanks to our sponsors Datacamp and the R consortium!
May 22, 2018 2 min read Meetups

April recap: Introduction to Text Mining with R

Our April Event! The April R-Ladies meetup was held on April 19th at Drexel. Thanks again to Drexel for hosting us and to DataCamp and the R consortium for sponsoring us!
Apr 29, 2018 2 min read Meetups

Who are the Philly R-Ladies? Analyzing Data from Google Forms

Why do a new member survey? One of the goals of R-Ladies Philly is for the group to be focused on the needs and interests of its members. With this goal in mind, we created a survey to query members about meeting logistics and R experience level.
Mar 11, 2018 6 min read