Upcoming Events
How to Build Portfolio Website with GitHub Pages
Hello RiveRside community ;-)
Join us for a virtual meeting of networking and learning next Tuesday, November 9th, at 12:00 PM (PST). Don't forget to RSVP in our Meetup to get access to the meeting ID and password.
We will learn how to build a portfolio website from scratch with GitHub Pages and Jekyll. This presentation will demonstrate how to create an entirely free, easy-to-maintain, friendly, and secure website. Please sign up for a GitHub account before the session.
At the end of the meeting, we will have time to help each other with any R-related questions.
Big thanks to UCR Library and UCR GradQuant for supporting us and our guest speaker *Daniela Cassol* from the Department of Botany and Plant Sciences at UCR!
See you soon!
Past Events
Intro to GitHub and R
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Join us for a virtual meeting of networking and learning next Thursday, September 23th, at 10:00 AM (PST). Don't forget to RSVP in our Meetup to get access to the meeting ID and password.
We will learn how to navigate between GitHub and R-studio. These tools will be helpful for collaborative coding, version control, and developing reproducible workflows. Please make a GitHub account and download R-studio before the session.
At the end of the meeting, we will have time to help each other with any R-related questions. Please have R and RStudio already installed on your computers.
Big thanks to UCR Library and UCR GradQuant for supporting us, and to our guest speaker *Kaleigh Fisher* from the Department of Entomology at UCR!
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A Semi-Tidy Tuesday: Dataframe to simple maps
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Come join us for a virtual meeting of networking and learning next Tuesday, April 13th, 12:00 PM (PST). Don't forget to RSVP in our Meetup to get access to the meeting's ID and password.
Whether you are new to R or a data scientist, join us for an introduction to Maps in R. We will introduce a variety of packages to use coordinates from a dataframe and create maps without GIS software.
At the end of the meeting, we will have time to help each other with any R-related questions. Don't forget to RSVP in our Meetup to get access to the meeting's ID and password.
Big thanks to UCR Library and UCR GradQuant for supporting us, and to our guest speaker *Tessa Shates* from the Department of Entomology at UCR!
See you soon!
Data Science as a Team Sport
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Join us for our next virtual meeting of learning and networking, Thursday, December 10th, at 5:00 PM (PST).
We will hear from Gabriela de Queiroz , founder of R-Ladies and AI Inclusive. Gabriela will tell us about her career journey, as well as the many different roles a Data Scientist may have.
At the end of the meeting, there will be time to ask any questions you may have about data scientist careers or questions about R in general. Don't forget to RSVP in our Meetup to get access to the meeting's ID and password.
Big thanks to UCR Library and UCR GradQuant for supporting us.
See you soon!
Analyzing Genomics Data in R with Bioconductor
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Come join us for a virtual meeting of networking and learning next Wednesday, July 22nd, 12:00 (PST). Don't forget to RSVP in our Meetup page page to get access to the meeting's ID and password.
Whether you are new to R or a data scientist, join us for an introduction to Bioconductor and tools for analysis and comprehension of high-throughput genomic data.
At the end of the meeting, we will have time to help each other with any R-related questions.
Big thanks to UCR Library and UCR GradQuant for supporting us, and to our guest speaker *Dr. Stephanie Hicks* from the Department of Biostatistics at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health!
Slides and code for the meeting!
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A Random Forests Tutorial with Examples in R
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Come join us for a virtual evening of networking and learning on Tuesday, June 2nd, 5:15 pm (PST). Please, don't forget to sign up on our Meetup page page to get access to the meeting's ID and password.
Whether you are new to R or a data scientist, join us for a Random Forest algorithm tutorial and see how you can apply machine learning in your research. At the end of the meeting, we will have time to help each other with any R-related questions.
Please have R and RStudio already installed on your computers. Also please install and verify that the package is loaded and working properly by running the first three lines of code in the tutorial here.
Big thanks to UCR Library and UCR GradQuant for supporting us, and to our guest speaker Rebecca Paulette Kurtz-Garcia from Statistics Department, UCR!
See you soon!
R Shiny for research and teaching
Tidy Tuesday
The wonders of R Markdown
Come plot with us!
