Upcoming R Community Events (week of 2018-07-02)

Conferences & Events
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Upcoming R Community Events (week of 2018-07-02)

Week's summary: 16 events in at least 10 countries.

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Warsztaty R-Ladies

Date: 2018-07-02 at 09:00
Location: Wroclaw, Poland

Description Snippet:

W ramach konferencji Why R? 2018 we Wrocławiu odbędą się warsztaty organizowane przez R-Ladies Warsaw (https://www.facebook.com/RLadiesWarsaw/)!

Interesujesz się analizą danych?
Znasz podstawy programowania?
Miałeś styczność z R i RStudio?

Jeśli na wszystkie pytania Twoja odpowiedź brzmi “tak!”, to zapraszamy Cię do udziału w naszych warsztatach z analizy i wizualizacji danych w R! W czasie warsztatów nauczysz się jak w szybki i czytelny sposób przetwarzać dane m.in. przy pomocy pakietu dplyr oraz jak prezentować je w formie wykresów (również interaktywnych!) używając bibliotek ggplot2 i plotly.

Zapraszamy również panów! :)

Warsztaty będą podzielone na cztery półtoragodzinne bloki:
1. podstawowe przetwarzanie danych (m.in. dplyr)
2. podstawowa wizualizacja danych (m.in. ggplot2)
3. zaawansowane przetwarzanie danych (m.in. dplyr, tidyr)
4. zaawansowana wizualiza ... read more at the event page.

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Venue: Sala 1.03. Wydział Biotechnologii UWr at ul. Fryderyka Joliot-Curie 14a, Wroclaw, Poland
Organized by STWUR - Wroclaw R Users Group Meetup

Summer of Data Science Book Club

Date: 2018-07-02 at 17:30
Location: Charlottesville, United States

Description Snippet:

Now that summer is in full swing, it's the perfect time to dive into a longer term project!

We'd like to challenge you to participate in the Summer of Data Science Twitter initiative started by Data Science Renee (https://twitter.com/BecomingDataSci). While the SoDS18 is open to all programming languages and endeavors related to becoming a (better) data scientist, we wanted to host a space within our Cville R-Ladies community to ask questions, provide support, and work together on group projects! Of course, there will also be snacks. :)

How do I participate?

We're going to kick off the book club by working through the first section of R for Data Science by Hadley Wickham and Garrett Grolemund (available for FREE at http://r4ds.had.co.nz/explore-intro.html). We'll start with Data Visualization with ggplot2, and we'll cover a ... read more at the event page.

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Venue: VividCortex at 300 Preston Avenue (Citizen's Commonwealth Center), 4th Floor, Charlottesville, VA, , United States
Organized by R-Ladies Charlottesville

R-Ladies Summer Social: Sip & Code!

Date: 2018-07-02 at 18:00
Location: Chicago, United States

Description Snippet:

Summer is finally here! Join R-Ladies Chicago to celebrate with wine and R!

• What we'll do:
We will taste some wines (and non-alcoholic drinks too!) and rate them based on the winemag.com scoring system. Then, we will work together in small groups to analyze and visualize the wine preferences of R-Ladies in R! Wine consumption is absolutely optional --we'll have non-alcoholic beverages & food too.

We'll also be introducing some R-Ladies Chicago outreach initiatives, including our new website: rladieschicago.org and kicking-off our Random Acts of Coffee program!

There will be no formal technical talk at this meeting; rather, a time to network with fellow R-Ladies while doing a collaborative coding activity. This is part of our “social” Meetups, focused on networking and idea exchange.

• Collaborative Coding:
We know the idea of coding with others can be daunting, but this is a safe space and everyone is welcome (even if you do not know how to ... read more at the event page.

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Venue: 20 W Kinzie St at 20 W Kinzie St, Chicago, Il, 60654, United States
Organized by R-Ladies Chicago

Survival analysis, news and organisational issues

Date: 2018-07-03 at 19:00
Location: Tbilisi, Georgia

Description Snippet:

The meetup will focus on the following three topics:

1. Survival analysis of timing of death using the “survival” package. Visualising the data using the “ggplot2” and “survminer” packages.
2. News from the eRum conference.
3. Future activities and R-Ladies Tbilisi organisational issues.

There will be R-Ladies hex-stickers for participants to grab. This meetup is not a hands-on workshop. The meetup will be held in English.

... read more at the event page.

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Venue: ჯეოლაბი GeoLab at 8 Merab Aleksidze St, Tbilisi 0160, Tbilisi, Georgia
Organized by R-Ladies Tbilisi

R-Ladies London visits R-Ladies Berlin

Date: 2018-07-03 at 18:00
Location: Berlin, Germany

Description Snippet:

We are happy to welcome R-Lady Grace from London at our additional meet-up session next week!

# Speaker details

Grace Meyer is a commercial analytics expert with proven success in advising business strategy based on data driven insights. She is currently based in London and works for the economics consultancy Oxera where she applies machine learning to strategic projects and is developing the data science and programming team. She is a mentor in the R-Ladies London chapter, uses R on a daily basis to crunch data and problem solve and presented at both UseR! and EARL last year.

# Dive into dplyr

Data is seldom already in a tidy format for you to start analysis on straight away. My personal experience confirms that about 80% of the analytics work-flow is massaging and crunching data into a useful state. R is a master of analytics and modelling which would be useless without its strong data manipulation functionality, especially from the tidyverse package dp ... read more at the event page.

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Venue: WeWork Ku‘Damm at Kurfürstendamm 11, 10719 Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Organized by R-Ladies Berlin

R :heart: Python

Date: 2018-07-03 at 17:30
Location: Sheffield, United Kingdom

Description Snippet:

This month we’ve got special guest Raniere Silva visiting all the way from Manchester and we'll focus the whole session on how R & Python can play nicely together. Whether you are an R developer that uses Python for some of your work or a member of data science team that uses both languages, reticulate can dramatically streamline your workflow!

We'll kick off with a talk by Raniere in which he'll discuss the basics of Python and R interoperability through package reticulate.

The rest of the session we leave open for YOUR examples of R ❤️ python workflows. Examples can be at any stage of development, even if (if not especially if) you are stuck on something. The idea is to get as broad a sample as possible of the many ways the two languages can interact and help out if we can.

Speaker Bios

My name is Raniere Gaia Costa da Silva but sometimes you will see me writing only Raniere Silva. I work for the Software Sustainability Institute (Sign-up for this event at meetup.com
Venue: The Red Deer at The Red Deer, Sheffield, United Kingdom
Organized by SheffieldR - Sheffield R Users Group

Big Data BBQ (Mannheim)

Date: 2018-07-04 at 17:00
Location: Mannheim, Germany

Description Snippet:

Registration for the event is only possible via Eventbrite and free of charge; however, the number of participants is restricted.
All the talks will be held in English and the event day (July 4th) is a game-free day of the World Cup.

Registration is now open: https://www.eventbrite.de/e/big-data-bbq-tickets-47016216770

When it comes to big data, regular discussions about possible operational implementations are crucial in order to discover and evaluate opportunities for one’s own business. Which processes have the greatest optimization potentials? What kind of prerequisites are necessary in terms of technical and organizational structures for facilitating these optimization strategies?
These and many more questions will lay the foundation of the discussions on this year's Big Data BBQ.

Königsweg and STARTUP Mannheim organize the Big Data BBQ on Wednesday, July 4t ... read more at the event page.

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Venue: MAFINEX Technologiezentrum at Julius-Hatry-Str. 1, Mannheim, Germany
Organized by Mannheim MongoDB User Group

Data Science With R Bootcamp

Date: 2018-07-04 at 20:00
Location: Kano, Nigeria

Description Snippet:

Training on R for data science

... read more at the event page.

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Venue: DiceBox Innovation Hub at Nassarawa, Kano, Nigeria
Organized by Kano R User Group

Modelos de Regressão no R

Date: 2018-07-04 at 18:30
Location: Florianópolis, Brazil

Description Snippet:

Prezados:

Comunico que nosso próximo Meetup será realizado no dia 04/07/2018.

Local: Anfiteatro B – Programa de Pós-Graduação em Engenharia de Produção (PPGEP) -CTC-UFSC

Horário: 18h 30min

Programação

Modelagem de Dados Complexos por Meio de Extensões do Modelo de Regressão Clássico
Ministrante: Luiz Ricardo Nakamura

Resumo: Em todos os campos da ciência e tecnologia, a quantidade de dados vem crescendo rapidamente e analisá-los de maneira adequada tornou-se mais desafiador do que nunca. Comumente, os conjuntos de dados apresentam uma variável resposta univariada que pode ser explicada por uma ou mais variáveis explicativas. Em geral, esse tipo de problema é estudado por meio de modelos de regressão linear e não-linear clássicos e/ou modelos lineares generalizados (GLM) quando a normalidade da variável resposta não é constatada. Em alguns casos um pouco mais complexos, em que não só a variação residual deve ser considerada como uma variá ... read more at the event page.

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Venue: Anfiteatro B – Engenharia de Produçao-PPGEP/CTC at UFSC-CTC/EPS, Florianópolis, Brazil
Organized by Florianópolis R-NNQ R users group

5 Year Anniversary Meetup With R Co-Creator Ross Ihaka

Date: 2018-07-05 at 17:30
Location: Auckland, New Zealand

Description Snippet:

The Talk:
Closures and Environments: R's "Secret" Programming Weapons

Abstract:
R's idea of environments and closures were adopted from the Scheme
programming language. In this talk I'll describe what they are and
how they are a useful part of an R programmer's toolkit.

Associate Professor Ross Ihaka has retired from academic life, the opportunity to hear his talks will become limited when he "get off the grid" in the near future.

Bio:
https://www.stat.auckland.ac.nz/en/about/news-and-events-5/news/news-2017/2017/12/ross-ihaka-retires.html

Networking from 6:30 - 7:30 p.m. with pizza, snacks and soft drinks

If the attached picture is subject to copyright, please let me know and I will take it off immediately. Photo credited to ©Adrian Malloch

... read more at the event page.

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Venue: **Lecture Theatre MLT3 - Room 101, Level 1, Building 303 Science Building ** at 38 Princes Street, The University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
Organized by Auckland R Users Group (AKLRUG)

Advanced Analytics & Machine Learning Case Study in Insurance by GENERALI

Date: 2018-07-05 at 18:00
Location: Milano, Italy

Description Snippet:

We are delighted to invite you to a special event called “Women in Data Science” sponsored by Generali.
This event welcomes all those who support a more inclusive and gender-balanced workplace and culture.
In this event 3 challenges will be explored in the insurance business and how they have been addressed by data analytics touching different areas of the value chain.
Please find the below the agenda of the event:
18:00 – 18:15 Welcome drink
18:15 – 18:20 Opening – by Group D&I Team
18:20 – 18:30 Introducing Rladies – by Parvaneh Shafiei, EY
18:30 – 18:50 Machine learing applied to fraud and early claims prediction in Life Business – by Gloria della Noce
18:50 – 19:00 Q&A
19:00 – 19:20 Steering Health Insurance Customers to the most appropriate healthcare facility through a recommendation engine – by Valeria Danese
19:20 – 19:30 Q&A
19:30 – 19:50 Predicting Euro exchange rate through deep learning – by Katerina Milosevic
1 ... read more at the event page.

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Venue: Assicurazioni Generali at Piazza cordusio, 2, Milano, Italy
Organized by R-Ladies Milan

Genève R Users Meetup

Date: 2018-07-05 at 19:00
Location: Genève, Switzerland

Description Snippet:

*** NOTE: The SDG Solution space is just on the south-west side of Campus Biotech (see map)**

We are planning to have a couple of presentations by members who will discuss how they use R at work. There will hopefully be a lot to discuss after. We will be providing some crackers and cheese during the meetup so you can hold off dinner temptations for a couple of hours.

Please do bring your curiosity whether you're a beginner or an expert, and good spirits (not the alcoholic type). More details will be shared closer to the date of the meetup. We look forward to seeing you there.

This meetup is organised with the support of the EPFL Extension School ( https://exts.epfl.ch | @epfl_exts (https://twitter.com/epfl_exts)). Event venue is kindly provided by Geneva SDG Solution Space and Université de Geneve ( Sign-up for this event at meetup.com
Venue: SDG Solution Space at Avenue de Sécheron 15, Genève, Switzerland
Organized by Genève R User Group

Genève R Users Meetup

Date: 2018-07-05 at 19:00
Location: Genève, Switzerland

Description Snippet:

*** NOTE: The SDG Solution space is just on the south-west side of Campus Biotech (see map)**

We are planning to have a couple of presentations by members who will discuss how they use R at work. There will hopefully be a lot to discuss after. We will be providing some crackers and cheese during the meetup so you can hold off dinner temptations for a couple of hours.

Please do bring your curiosity whether you're a beginner or an expert, and good spirits (not the alcoholic type). More details will be shared closer to the date of the meetup. We look forward to seeing you there.

This meetup is organised with the support of the EPFL Extension School ( https://exts.epfl.ch | @epfl_exts (https://twitter.com/epfl_exts)). Event venue is kindly provided by Geneva SDG Solution Space and Université de Geneve ( Sign-up for this event at meetup.com
Venue: SDG Solution Space at Avenue de Sécheron 15, Genève, Switzerland
Organized by Genève R User Group

Blogdown Tutorial: Build Your Own Website

Date: 2018-07-05 at 18:30
Location: San Diego, United States

Description Snippet:

In this meeting we will do a hands on tutorial with blogdown (https://bookdown.org/yihui/blogdown/). We will build mini-personal websites to showcase some of our work.

More details to follow, but come with you computer and the package blogdown installed!

... read more at the event page.

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Venue: WeWork 8910 University Center Lane at 8910 University Center Ln, San Diego, ca, 92122, United States
Organized by R-Ladies San Diego

Getting better together: applications of R within the data science workflow

Date: 2018-07-07 at 10:00
Location: Dallas, United States

Description Snippet:

Our next session will be broken up as follows:

10:00AM - 11:00AM RLadies lightning talks on packages we love
11:00AM - 12:00PM Collaborative work on a #TidyTuesday project, with a guided walk-through
12:00PM - 12:30PM Lunch! Bring your own, order in, or head out to a local restaurant
12:30PM - 2:30PM Independent work session

Members are encouraged to stay as long as they would like, and to use the natural break times to leave if they will not be staying the entire session.

Because we have members traveling from all over the metroplex, the four hour session was created to enable RLadies to get the most out of our time together.

Lightning talks have already been scheduled for this session.

*** It can get _incredibly_ cold in this space. Please dress in layers, and consider bringing a heavy sweater or sweatshirt!***

Please email dallas [at] rladies [dot] org with any questions!

... read more at the event page.

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Venue: Jesse Mostipak c/o Teaching Trust at 1825 Market Center Boulevard, Dallas, tx, 75207, United States
Organized by R-Ladies Dallas

R and Python study group

Date: 2018-07-07 at 10:00
Location: West des Moines, United States

Description Snippet:

Are you tired of learning and playing with Python and R alone? Would you like to get together with a few friends and learn together? I have been starting to learn R and Python for data science and following the typical route of videos and practice projects. I really want to ramp up my learning and exposure to different ways. Here is my proposal:

- Gather a small group of 2-5 and learn together.
- Meet at a coffee shop, library, or some other space that has Wi-Fi.
- Pick a project, data set or problem, then work to solve it with different tools.
- Keep it fluid and informal.
- Meet on a regular basis, say weekly to start, and adjust as needed.
- Aim to keep the meetings 2-4 hours long, but this can be adjusted to the project or group. People can come and go as needed.
- It does not have to be the same people each time, so you only have to commit to going once to check it out.

Are you interested? Show up at the meeting spot, have some coffee, meet ... read more at the event page.

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Venue: Panera Bread at 4150 Westown Pkwy, West des Moines, IA, 50265, United States
Organized by Central Iowa R User Group

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