R-Ladies Melbourne Events
Events in 2024
Leveraging the Power of Data in Sport
We look forward to hearing from Elisa Koch & Lauren Boothby on the 20th of November.
Join us in person, or online. Signup via meetup
It Takes a Spark 2024
Dionne and Kathleen presented this year's workshop titled "Become a Disease Detective! Solve an Outbreak!"
All our learning material is available online as a website and slides.
Actions to increase diversity in the R-Ladies community - São Paulo
Presented by Beatrix Milz, Post-doc UFABC/Laplan and co-organizer of R-Ladies São Paulo.
Watch the recording here
Careers in data science and statistics
A panel discussion with:
Events in 2023
It Takes a Spark: Become a Disease Detective
An interactive workshop presented by R Ladies Melbourne at the annual It Takes a Spark conference, held for students and teachers to inspire, learn and engage with current advances in science, technology, engineering and maths. Our workshop material is available online here and the slides from the workshop here.
Teaching Computers to See Scatterplots with Scagnostics
Presented by Harriet Mason, PhD candidate at Monash University
Checkout the CassowaryR package
What's New in the Tidyverse?
Presented by Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel, Professor of the Practice and the Director of Undergraduate Studies at the Department of Statistical Science at Duke University.
Find slides here.
Navigating Public Health Careers: insights into career journeys
Presented by Dr. Danielle Ingle, Steph Main and Dr. Danielle Hock.
Find slides for each presenter here, here, and here.
Events in 2022
Choose your own adventure: Tools for Open and Reproducible Research
Presented by Cynthia Huang, PhD Student in Econometrics and Business Statistics at Monash University.
How I use workflowr to create reproducible analyses
Presented by Jovana Maksimovic, Postdoctoral Researcher in Bioinformatics at the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre.
Switching between space and time: Spatio-temporal analysis with cubble
Presented by Sherry Zhang, PhD Student, Monash University
Find video recording on Youtube
The workflow of tidy data, constructing plots and making data-driven decisions
Presented by Di Cook, Professor, Econometrics and Business Statistics, Monash University
Find video recording on Youtube
Data viz for mass audiences
Presented by Juliette O'Brien, journalist and founder/maintainer of covid19data.com.au
Find video recording on Youtube
Building a new geom in ggplot2
Presented by Sayani Gupta
Find video recording on Youtube
How to do analysis for others without going crazy: My mistakes in consulting
Presented by Taya Collyer
Find video recording on Youtube
AI Ethics Workshop
Presented by Laura Summers founder of debias.ai
Find video on Youtube:
Automate your CV using R Markdown: Easy as 1, 2, knit
Presented by Shazia Ruybal-Pesántez
Find video on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fc1RwRskk08&t=223s&ab_channel=R-LadiesMelbourne
Events in 2021
The Art of Design: Software & Experimental Design
Presented Emi Tanaka, Lecturer in Statistics, University of Sydney
Find video on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8caV0KvmNNw&t=645s&ab_channel=R-LadiesMelbourne
Anomalies! You can’t escape them
Presented by Sevvandi Kandanaarachchi
Find video on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9yK7EP7dcM&ab_channel=R-LadiesMelbourne
A remote glimpse into the useR!2021 conference
Presented by Anna Quaglieri
Find video on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBoWCTYUvgY&t=240s&ab_channel=R-LadiesMelbourne
Create and publish your personal website with Blogdown
Presented by Danyang Dai
rstudio::global(2021) %>% filter(workshops == “diversity scholars”) %>% summarize()
Presented by Dr Shazia Ruybal Pesántez.
2021-02-25-Tidy-Tuesday
Organised by Danyang Dai.
Events in 2020
How R you? - 4-year anniversary
Go to R-Ladies Melbourne Tips website.
Resume Guru
Presented by Tahlia Marks.
Sport, Data and R
Presented by Alice Sweeting.
R Markdown - A Better Way of Communicating with Data
Presented by Danyang Dai.
Would you like to become a more Confident and Engaging Speaker?
Presented by Jo Evans.
Recent work in cluster trials and the representation of women in statistics
Presented by Jessica Kaska, Senior Lecturer, Biostatistics Unit, Dept. of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine.
Binovisualfields Package: Development and Publication to CRAN
Organised by Nikki Rubinstein and run by Virginia Liu.
TidyTuesday
Organised by Sepideh Foroutan and Anna Quaglieri and run by Sepideh.
Events in 2019
Christmas networking party
Designing Data Science
Prepared and presented by Hadley Wickham
R-Shiny Tricks or Treats, Maybe Both?
Prepared and presented by Goknur Giner
Intro to Data Analysis and Graphics with R
Presented and prepared by ZHUOWEN(Tobey) Zhang
Take a sad plot and make it better
Prepared and presented by Alison Hill
Gold star reproducibility: straightforward containerisation with open-source tools
Prepared and presented by Saras Windecker
Introduction to R workshop
Prepared and presented by Goknur Giner and Nikki Rubinstein
Cluster analysis with international education data – challenges and insights
Prepared and presented by Jenny Shen
NLP with SpaCy in R
Prepared and presented by Ana Mamatelashvili
Baby one more time - reproducibility in R and when to bring in the big guns
Prepared and presented by Lavinia Gordon
Producing publication-ready documents in R Markdown
Prepared and presented by:
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Soroor Zadeh, Master Student in Statistics at the University of Melbourne and Research Assisant at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research
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Anna Quaglieri, PhD Student in Bioinformatics at the University of Melbourne and the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research
Events in 2018
Semiparametric and non parametric models in R
Prepared and presented by Soroor Zadeh, Master Student in Statistics at the University of Melbourne and Research Assisant at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research.
From zero to science hero in 1 week
Speaker: Fiona Milne, data scientist at Eliiza, a ML/AI consulting company.
How R you? - R-Ladies Melbourne second anniversary
Organised by Anna Quaglieri, Saskia Freytag and Göknur Giner.
Find introduction slides here.
Go to How R you - R-Ladies Melbourne Tips website.
R as a tool for complex systems modelling
Run by Caitlin Adams, PhD Student at Swinburne University’s Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing.
Getting down and up with blogging with R!
Run by Emi Tanaka, Lecturer in Statistics, University of Sydney
Follow me! Introduction to social media analysis in R
Run by:
- Maria Prokofieva, Senior Lecturer, College of Business, Victoria University
- Anna Quaglieri, PhD Student in Bioinformatics, The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute
- Saskia Freytag, Postdoctoral Fellow, The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute
Introduction to R
Run by:
- Roxane Legaie, Lead Clinical Bioinformatician at Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre.
- Adele Barugahare, Bioinformatician at Monash University.
Everything you need to know to create your R package!
Find all the R code here.
Prepared and presented by Earo Wang.
More than words - Text analysis in R
Prepared and presented by Maria Prokofieva Find video of the seminar on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOVwOQ5XhTI.
Parallel Programming in R
Prepared and presented by Soroor Zadeh Find video of the seminar on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXEn4M6YDOA.
Public Transport Maps and Geospatial Data In R
Speaker Belinda Maher. Find video of the seminar on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84G6ZNTEHCo
Events in 2016-2017
Launch Meetup
Speaker: Di Cook, Professor of Business Analytics in the Department of Econometrics and Business Statistics at Monash University.
R Notebooks and Interactive Graphics
Speakers:
- Natalia Da Silva, PhD in Statistics from Iowa State University
- Jovana Maksimovic, Postdoctoral scientist in Bioinformatics at the Murdoch Children Research Institute.
Git and GitHub workshop
Speaker: Soroor Zadeh, Research Assistant in Bioinformatics at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute.
Twitter Workshop
Speaker: Anna Quaglieri, PhD candidate in Bioinformatics at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute.
Helper: Saskia Freitag, Postdoctoral scientist in Bioinformatics at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute.
Web Scraping & Sports Analytics
Speaker: Stephanie Kovalchik, Tennis Data Scientist at the Game Insight Group at Tennis Australia and researcher at the Institute of Sport Exercise and Active Living at Victoria University.
Build Neural Network with R
Speaker: Kristen Hunter, PhD candidate in statistics at Harvard University.
mixOmics: Combine Large Scale Datasets
Find materials on how to use the mixOmics package, an R package to combine large scale genomics datasets.
Speaker: Kim-Anh Le Cao, Academic, Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Melbourne.
Find video of workshop on YouTube: - Part 1. Introduction to mixOmics https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnIFeguzNA4&t=34s - Part 2. Hands on turorial on mixOmics https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8ReqvpdSI0
Introduction to R Workshop
Speakers:
- Roxane Legaie, Lead Clinical Bioinformatician at Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre.
- Nikki Rubinstein, PhD candidate at Melbourne University.
Random Forest, Climate Change and Food Production
Speaker: Elizabeth Vogel, PhD researcher at the Australian-German Climate & Energy College, University of Melbourne, focusing on climate extreme events and agriculture.
Find video of seminar on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rjhPGa4ef0&t=2s.
One Year of R-Ladies Melbourne
Prepared by Anna Quaglieri and Marie Trussart and presented by Marie Trussart.
Introduction to R-Shiny
Prepared and presented by Soroor Zadeh and Marie Trussart.
Christmas Party
Organised and directed by Saskia Freytag