Winter 2019

[arnavs]

Will this group be meeting this semester?

[ttimbers]

Yes! I think there will be a very informal meeting today at 1 in Koerner 216, and then actually start formally next week. Please come today if you can/want!

[arnavs]

Perfect, I'm in.

[ttimbers]

Brainstorming

What do we want to learn?

• data types, how to write functions
• purrr's map functions, loops, apply (Travis - @travis-m-blimkie Feb)
• NSE (non-standard evaluation - tidy evaluation) (Amy @minisciencegirl )
• simple/intro visualization (ggplot2, scatter plots, histograms) (Richie @rzitomer mid/late Feb)
• more advanced viz (pheatmap, network diagrams via igraph or ggraph?) (& clustering)?
• exploratory data analysis (Aaron @aaronquinton early March)
• dimensionality reduction & viz (PCA, t-sne) (& clustering)?
• machine learning (Ian @ian-flores March)
• R packages (group project 2) (Tiffany @ttimbers kick-off before group project - end of March/early april)
• Shiny (group project)
• Julia
• NLP
• data cleaning/munging (group project 1)

Should we organize our own beginner workshop?

• will take some weeks to get organized? Maybe in February?
• 3hr long, covering basic dataframe manipulation and data viz using tidyverse
• any volunteers interested in helping with teaching and organizing?
• use Data Carpentry/Software Carpentry materials
• plan out at next session (which will be a co-working session)

[brian604]

Hello, I am Jiwon Kim who came yesterday for first session. I have a time conflict because I have a class (MWF 1:00 PM~ 2:00 PM; Also I have TueThu 11~12, 2:00 ~ 3:00 PM)

[brian604]

Hello, this is just a side-note. I would like to publicize a project I will start to work on, and I believe that R-study group page is hosted by GitHub. Could any of you teach me how, to make a website using Github?

[arnavs]

@brian604 My personal website is hosted through github (https://github.com/arnavs/website is the source repository).

Send me an email at arnav.sood@ubc.ca and I can try and help you out.

[ian-flores]

@ttimbers @minisciencegirl @arnavs - I can collaborate for the 3hr workshop covering the tidyverse.

Also for the talk about Machine Learning in R, I can do it the first week of March on the 6th.

[arnavs]

I can do the julia one (if that's something people want, I know at least one person two weeks ago was interested). Late March would probably be best. I've figured out how to set up my own JupyterHub for the talk, so no more technical issues :-)

[laijasmine]

interested in helping out with organizing/teaching the beginner workshop! Hopefully I can get out of my lab meeting to come to the planning session.

[minisciencegirl]

Beginner workshop planning will be issue #27.

We've tentatively set the schedule for our winter session below. If the time doesn't work for you, please let us know and switch it with one of the work-a-longs. Thank you!

Date	Topic	Name	GitHub username
2019-01-30	Work-a-long and Planning
2019-02-06	Workshop Planning
2019-02-13	Workshop Planning
2019-02-20	Intro Plotting (gg, scatter, histograms, etc.)	Richie Zitomer	@rzitomer
2019-02-27	Work-a-long
2019-03-06	Exploratory Data Analysis	Aaron Quintin	@aaronquinton
2019-03-13	Work-a-long
2019-03-20	Machine Learning in R	Ian Flores	@ian-flores
2019-03-27	Work-a-long
2019-04-03	The Julia Programming Language	Arnav Sood	@arnavs
2019-04-10	Work-a-long
2019-04-17	purr	Travis Blimkie	@travis-m-blimkie
2019-04-24	Work-a-long
2019-05-01	Non-Standard Evaluation in R	Amy Lee	@minisciencegirl
2019-05-08	Group Project Presentations/Party
2019-05-15	End-of-year Party

@ian-flores and @travis-m-blimkie: would you guys be able to create issues/ post for the scheduled sessions?