What is a Birds of a Feather Session? As we see it, a BoF is just a short unconference within a conference, organized or left un-organized (mostly) by participants! Topics may be narrow or broad. Some may have agendas and others may be purely for networking. Depending on the size of the group or other conflicts, some may meet during lunch and others in a BoF lounge during breaks between sessions.
At a minimum, each group will have a friendly set of people working in common areas or on common issues, or working with common tools.
Schedule & Location Notes
- Thursday Evening Happy Hour: Certain BoFs meeting Thursday evening, 6-7:00 PM, in large dedicated rooms.
- Lunch or Breakfast: we'll have a section of the dinning hall reserved for this group.
- Lounge: for meetings during breaks between talks, we have a special lounge set aside for BoFs.
- R-Ladies: To meet Friday evening, 6-7:00 PM in a large dedicated room.
R-Ladies
R-Ladies promotes diversity in the rstats community via meetups, mentorship & global collaboration.
RStudio, R-Ladies Global and R-Ladies Austin are hosting a meet-up at rstudio::conf.
- When: Friday at 6:00 PM (no other events are scheduled for this time)
- Where: Park View A, 7th Floor.
- Details: Connect ahead of the conference on RStudio Community
Birds of a Feather Sessions
Thursday - Breakfasts, Lunches, and Breaks
| BoF RStudio Community | Schedule | |
|---|---|---|
| R-Admin / DevOps | Thursday Breakfast | R-Administrators, API development, Productionalizing Data Analytics, dev-ops, shiny in production. Hosted by RStudio Solutions Engineering |
| Data for Good | Thursday Breakfast | social and governance (ESG), data science for social good, corporate social responsibility, Ethics in data science, non-profit data analysis, Open Data, open science, Ethical R Usage, Not For Profit, diversity, gender equality Hosted by @rachael, @gvwilson and others |
| Retail / CPG | Thursday 10:30-11AM | Retail, consumer products group Hosted by @tonya in the BoF Lounge 1 |
| Natural Language Processing | Thurs 10:30-11AM | Hosted by @julia in the BoF Lounge 2 |
| Education | Thursday Lunch | Education data analysts, higher education, Teaching, Teaching and learning R/Data Science!, Teaching R, Teaching RStudio Hosted by @mine and the RStudio Education team |
| Manufacturing | Thursday 3:30-4PM | Hosted by @tonya in the BoF Lounge 1 |
| EdTech | Thursday 3:30-4PM | Hosted by @sam and community folks. In the BoF Lounge 2 |
Thursday Evening - Happy Hour, 6:00 - 7:00 PM
| Pharma and Life Sciences Location: Poppy room, 4th floor |
Hosted by @PhilBowsher & @laurenchadwick Sponsored by Thermo Fisher Scientific |
| Finance Location: Indigo room, 4th floor |
Hosted by Jonathan Regenstein (@jkr216) and Nick Rohrbaugh (@nrohr) Sponsored by DataCamp |
| Healthcare and Insurance Location: Verbena room, 4th floor |
Keywords: Healthcare, epidemiology, clinical research, public health, Insurance Hosted by @Hadrien & @PhilBowsher |
| Business Intelligence Location: Lantana room, 4th floor. |
Keywords: Business intelligence, Marketing/Digital Analytics, Web Experimentation Hosted by @TMock & @rachael |
Friday - Breakfasts, Lunches, and Breaks
| BoF RStudio Community | Schedule | |
|---|---|---|
| Academic / Research | Friday Breakfast | analysts/scientists in academia (e.g., institutional research), reproducible research Hosted by RStudio Education Team; @mine |
| Spatial / Maps | Friday Breakfast | Hosted by @zross & @alandipert in the dining hall. |
| StartUps | Friday Breakfast | Hosted by @MarkEngeln in the dining hall |
| Energy | Friday 10-10:30AM | Hosted by @TMock in the BoF Lounge 1 |
| Media / Journalism | Friday 10-10:30AM | Hosted by @MarkEngeln in the BoF Lounge 2 |
| Machine Learning | Friday Lunch | Machine Learning, tensorflow, kerasHosted by @scott, @javierluraschi, @Max and others. |
| Package-dev | Friday Lunch | Hosted by @jimhester and others |
| Government / Public Sector | Friday Lunch | Hosted by @TMock |
| Sport | Friday 2:30-3PM | Hosted by @mara in the BoF Lounge 1 |
| Environmental | Friday 2:30-3PM | Environmental, Ecology, Wildlife Hosted by @tyegagne and community in BoF Lounge 2 |
| Tidy-eval | Friday 2:30-3PM | Hosted by @lionel just outside Manchester Ballroom |
