Publications by Why R? Foundation
Riinu Pius – R for Health Data Science – from clinicians who code to Shiny interventions
Few weeks ago we finished Why R? 2020 conference. We had an honour to host Riinu Pius, a data scientist at the Centre for Medical Informatics, The University of Edinburgh. This post contains a biography of the speaker and an abstract of her talk: R for Health Data Science. Riinu Pius is a data scientist at the Centre for Medical Informatics, T...
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Why R? Webinar – How to start your own rstats group – Building an inclusive and fun R community
This Thursday we have Kyla McConnell and Julia Muller from Freiburg R-Ladies with a talk: How to start your own #rstats group: Building an inclusive and fun R community. 8pm UTC+1 on youtube.com/WhyRFoundation Potentially valuable for every R Group Organizer! meetup event Abstract Ever thought about starting your own R-stats group, whether for l...
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Roger Bivand – Applied Spatial Data Analysis with R – retrospect and prospect
A month ago we finished Why R? 2020 conference. We had an pleasure to host Roger Bivand, a professor at Norwegian School of Economics and Member of R Foundation. This post contains a biography of the speaker and an abstract of his talk: Applied Spatial Data Analysis with R – retrospect and prospect. When we began over 20 years ago, spatial d...
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Upcoming Why R? and X-Europe Webinars in November
Why R? Webinars are back after successful launch of Why R? 2020 Conference! All videos from the past series and from the recently finished conference can be watched on our youtube.com/WhyRFoundation channel. See this post to find out about upcoming webinars in November 2020. The aim of webinars is to support local R groups during the pandemic. ...
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Frank Harrell – Controversies in Predictive Modeling and Machine Learning
A month ago we finished Why R? 2020 conference. We had an pleasure to host Frank Harrell, a professor and a founding chair of the Department of Biostatistics at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine.. This post contains a biography of the speaker and an abstract of his talk: Controversies in Predictive Modeling and Machine Learning. Frank is...
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Małgorzata Bogdan – Recent developments on Sorted L-One Penalized Estimation
A month ago we finished Why R? 2020 conference. We had an pleasure to host Małgorzata Bogdan, an associate professor of statistics at University of Wrocław. This post contains a biography of the speaker and an abstract of her talk: Recent developments on Sorted L-One Penalized Estimation. Sorted L-One Penalized Estimator is an extension of LA...
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Why R Webinar – R on AWS
Last week at Why R? Webinars we had Marcin Kosinski who presented a short workshop about R on AWS. The biogram and the link to YouTube and GitHub materials are below. GitHub materials https://github.com/MarcinKosinski/RonAWS webinars http://whyr.pl/webinars/ donate http://whyr.pl/donate/ Amazon Web Services (AWS) offers reliable, scalable, and...
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Upcoming Why R Webinar – Preserving wildlife with computer vision AND Scaling Shiny Dashboards on a Budget
This Thursday (Nov 12th 7:00pm UTC) at Why R? Webinars we will have Jędrzej Świeżewski PhD and Damian Budelewski from Appsilon with 2 talks Preserving wildlife with computer vision AND Scaling Shiny Dashboards on a Budget. The link to the webinar, biograms and abstract are included in this post. Also we share current open positions at Appsilo...
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Why R Webinar – Satellite imagery analysis in R
Today at Why R? Webinars we will have a chance to host Ewa Grabska who is planning to present Satellite imagery analysis in R. The biogram and the link to YouTube are below. To go the video and set a reminder! Thursday November 19th. 7:00pm UTC webinars whyr.pl/webinars/ donate whyr.pl/donate/ past videos youtube.com/WhyRFoundationVideos Sate...
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Why R Webinar – Mocking in R
Tomorrow at Why R? Webinars we will have a chance to guest Max Kronborg who will present Mocking in R. The biogram and the link to YouTube are below. Go the video and set a reminder! Thursday November 26th. 7:00pm UTC webinars whyr.pl/webinars/ donate whyr.pl/donate/ past videos youtube.com/WhyRFoundationVideos Mocking allows the programmer t...
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