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The 果冻影院 R user group is a friendly group for R users to meet, hear a talk and discuss R questions.
Originally set up in 2019 for staff and postgrad students at the Bartlett School of Environment, Energy and Resources听(BSEER), in 2020 we expanded to welcome the wider R community at 果冻影院 and beyond.
We currently meet online every 4 weeks on Thursdays at 1-2pm UK time online and in person. The idea is to create a friendly space for R users to come together, listen to a talk (typically 20-45 minutes) and ask questions. We aim to have a variety of talks to benefit beginners and more advanced R users. To join the group email听naomi.launders.19@ucl.ac.uk.
Talk recordings are available to group members on our Microsoft Teams group. Contact Naomi Launders to join the group and get a link to the MS Teams group. Occasionally our talk materials are on听.
2022/23 events: online at 1pm every 4th Thursday of term (approximately)
| Date | Title | Speaker(s) |
|---|---|---|
| 13th Oct 2022 | Scientific writing and reproducible research with R Markdown | Alasdair Warwick |
| 10th Nov 2022 | Using R to study hospital use for physical health in people with severe mental illness | |
| 8th Dec 2022 | The false positive risk: a shiny app | |
| 19th Jan 2023 | Dynamic documents using Quarto | |
| 16th Feb 2023 | Using the UK Government People鈥檚 Survey to Understand the Experiences of Civil Servants who identify as Lesbian, Gay or Bisexual 鈥� with the help of R! | |
| 23rd Mar 2023 | R (or Python) for Open and Reproducible Science | |
| TBD | Visualizing choice experiment data in ggplot | |
| 25th May 2023 | Using predictive modelling techniques to study the impact of COVID-19 on domestic energy consumption in GB (and how to make some nice-looking plots) | |
| 22nd June 2023 | An introduction to testing R code |
果冻影院 R User Group end-of-year Meetup Wednesday 6th July 2022
Join us for an exciting talk from Victoria and Albert Museum鈥檚听听on his work as a data scientist using R. We鈥檒l also be hosting a peer-programming session for R users to bring their code for help and feedback. Should be a great opportunity to meet other R users, find out how other people code and improve or get help with your code. Plenty of refreshments for all those who can join us in person. For all the details and to sign up check out听
2021/22 events: online at 1pm every 4th Thursday of term (approximately)
| Date (2021) | Title | Speaker(s) |
|---|---|---|
| 28th Oct | Introducing the group and the organisers | 听&补尘辫;听Scott Orr |
| 2nd Nov | In-person SOCIAL* | Organised by Ellen and Scott |
| 18th Nov | Building a stochastic model of COVID-19 outbreaks in homeless accommodation settings | |
| 16th Dec | ~Postponed~ | 听 |
| 27th Jan | The use of R in developing analytical literacy for policy | |
| 23rd Feb | Working with data: Introducing and comparing data.table and dplyr | 听&补尘辫;听Jonathan Bourne |
| 24th Mar | Parallel R |
* 1-2pm Tuesday 26th October at the 果冻影院 Student Centre (inside on the听. An informal, bring-your-own-lunch get-together, with cake.
R Project Showcase, Thursday 17th June 2021
In June 2021 the 果冻影院 R User Group held our the first听听- a free online event showcasing R projects by 果冻影院 students and early-career researchers (ECRs), and part of the听果冻影院 Festival of Code. Dr Kirsten McMillan from Dogs Trust gave the keynote speech and there were prizes for best student/ECR talk in each category. The book of abstracts is available听.
2020/21 talks (1pm every 4th Thursday)
| Date (2020) | Title | Speaker(s) |
|---|---|---|
| 1st Oct | Teaching R remotely | |
| 29th Oct | 听&补尘辫;听Jonno Bourne | |
| 26th Nov |
| Date (2021) | Title | Speaker(s) |
|---|---|---|
| 28th Jan | ||
| 18th Feb | The graph is always greener: Making (better) use of colour in R | Scott Orr |
| 25th Mar | ||
| 15th Apr | Multilevel modelling with pretty outputs in R | |
| 13th May | Innovating with R-Studio for online course delivery: lectures, practicals, thesis templates and more! | 听&补尘辫;听 |
| 10th Jun | tba | 听 |
* Slides say RLadies Coventry but otherwise they鈥檙e the same
2019/20 talks
- Introduction to RMarkdown听
- Introduction to Spatial Analysis and Mapping with R听
- Tips and tricks for designing effective figures in base R听Scott Orr
- Optimising algorithms听Jonno Bourne
- Regression in R and general good practice听Patrick de Mars
- Interactive Visualisations in R听Despina Manouseli
- How I use R (with a focus on dplyr)听Harry Kennard
- Cluster Analysis in R with Factoextra and NbClust听Andrew Mitchell
Get involved
To find out more, join the group, offer to give a talk, or provide feedback please email听naomi.launders.19@ucl.ac.uk.
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