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R in Africa
R is used around the world and yet, in English-speaking media at least, we tend to hear most about what is happening in North America, Europe, and Australasia. So we would like to highlight some recent initiatives in the R community from other regions of the world, with this first post in the series focusing on R in Africa. satRdays in Cape Town...
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R in Latin America
Following on from our post on R in Africa this next post in the series looks at the R community across Latin America. Conferences As the use of R has grown in Latin America, there has been an increasing demand for local R conferences. The community has responded and a number of conferences are planned for the coming months. International Seminar...
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R in Latin America
Following on from our post on R in Africa this next post in the series looks at the R community across Latin America. Conferences As the use of R has grown in Latin America, there has been an increasing demand for local R conferences. The community has responded and a number of conferences are planned for the coming months. International Seminar...
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HavanaR Workshop 2018
The first meeting of R users in Cuba, HavanaR! Club 2018, will take place from 29-10-2018 to 02-11-2018. The workshop is organized jointly by the Group of Probability and Statistics of Universidad de La Habana, the >eR-Biostat initiative, the Center for Statistics, CenStat & I-Biostat, Hasselt University, Belgium and Forwards. The workshop will f...
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HavanaR Workshop 2018
The first meeting of R users in Cuba, HavanaR! Club 2018, will take place from 29-10-2018 to 02-11-2018. The workshop is organized jointly by the Group of Probability and Statistics of Universidad de La Habana, the >eR-Biostat initiative, the Center for Statistics, CenStat & I-Biostat, Hasselt University, Belgium and Forwards. The workshop will f...
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Workshops for Women and Girls
Thanks to generous funding from the R Consortium, Forwards has offered a series of workshops around the world to support the development of coding skills and to increase the participation of women in the R community. In the last year and a half, more than 10 workshops have engaged more than 100 high school students and women in Australia, New Ze...
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Workshops for Women and Girls
Thanks to generous funding from the R Consortium, Forwards has offered a series of workshops around the world to support the development of coding skills and to increase the participation of women in the R community. In the last year and a half, more than 10 workshops have engaged more than 100 high school students and women in Australia, New Ze...
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The state of R in Africa
Growth of the R ecosystem in Africa Over the past 2 years, we have seen R transform from just an academic and health care research language to one of the major languages in the budding data science community in Africa. For a long time, data scientists and related disciplines have relied on R and many other packages to analyse data, however, the b...
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The state of R in Africa
Growth of the R ecosystem in Africa Over the past 2 years, we have seen R transform from just an academic and health care research language to one of the major languages in the budding data science community in Africa. For a long time, data scientists and related disciplines have relied on R and many other packages to analyse data, however, the b...
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Recap of R-Ladies Charlottesville Forwards Workshop
On September 8, 2019, Samantha Toet and Angela Li co-taught a 3-hour Forwards Package Development Workshop at a weekend R-Ladies Charlottesville Meetup. The workshop took place as a result of Angela being in town – she reached out to Sam and suggested the workshop, Sam thought it was a good idea, and they worked together to coordinate the logis...
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