Agenda

Communication

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June 27, 2026


Tentative

8:00 - 9:00 Registration and Breakfast

9:00 - 9:10 Introductions (10 min)

  • Cameron Mulder, Cascadia R Conference
  • Dr. Qing Hu, Marilyn and Gerry Cameron Dean, Portland State University, School of Business

9:10 - 9:40 Morning Keynote (30 min)

  • Hannah Waight: State Media Control Influences Large Language Models

9:40 - 10:40 Session: LLMs and AI in R (1 hr)

15 min each speaker + 15 min Q&A

  • Kristin Bott: ellmer for all? Building context around LLMs
  • Ed Borasky: xen.assist, Assisted Xentonal Algorithmic Composition with R
  • Kylie Bemis: Out-of-memory computing strategies for R and Bioconductor

10:40 - 11:00 Break

11:00 - 12:00 Session: Connecting Data and Teams with R (1 hr)

15 min each speaker + 15 min Q&A

  • Josh Roll: Pedestrian Traffic Volume Data Fusion - Using R for Data Integration, Analysis and Presentation
  • Tim Anderson: Automating Educational Finance Validation: R as the Orchestration Layer in a Government Workflow
  • Alexandria Reed: Reproducibility in Practice: Using R to Bridge Teams

12:00 - 1:15 Lunch Break

1:15 - 1:45 Afternoon Keynote (30 min)

1:45 - 2:45 Session: Advanced Statistical Modeling and Analytics (1 hr)

15 min each speaker + 15 min Q&A

  • Jon Downs: Efficient Fuzzy Joins, Introducing FozzieJoin
  • Melissa Bather: Sasquatch Statistics, Spatial Point Regression with R
  • Simone Mendes: Simplifying Data Structuring for Complex Survival Analysis with pammtools

2:45 – 3:05 Break

3:05 - 3:40 Session: Lightning Talks (35 min)

5 min each speaker + 10 min Q&A

  • Gabriel Becker: R Dev Day Recap
  • Jeremy Miller: Cell HierARchy Gene Explorer (CHARGE), an R Shiny app for exploring cell type data
  • Ben Chaney: R-Powered Transportation Planning and Analysis in Oregon
  • Leland Russell: An R package for estimating mixtures of Benter models with ranked data
  • Eric Kiflawi: Quality Assurance in Point of Care Using R

3:40 – 4:40 Session: Messy Data to Meaningful Insights with R (1 hr)

  • Randi Bolt: Making Sense of Messy Survey Responses with R
  • David Gerbing: A framework for value visualizations
  • Aditya Gadkari: Power of Parquet: Improving efficiencies using the Apache Ecosystem

4:40 - 5:00 Closing Remarks

5:00 - 6:30 Reception