Communication
Join us on Slack
June 27, 2026
8:00 - 9:00 Registration and Breakfast
9:00 - 9:10 Introductions
- Cameron Mulder, Cascadia R Conference
- Dr. Qing Hu, Portland State University, School of Business
9:10 - 9:40 Morning Keynote
- Hannah Waight: State Media Control Influences Large Language Models
9:40 - 10:40 Career Skills and AI in R
- Shubham Anandani: Designing Trust Signals: Turning User Behavior into Measurable Drivers of Growth
- Kristin Bott: ellmer for all? Building context around LLMs
- Ed Borasky: xen.assist, Assisted Xentonal Algorithmic Composition with R
10:40 - 11:00 Break
11:00 - 11:20 Lightning Talks!
- Jeremy Miller: Cell HierARchy Gene Explorer (CHARGE), an R Shiny app for exploring cell type data
- Arilene Novak: API made simple, automating data access in R
- Ben Chaney: R-Powered Transportation Planning and Analysis in Oregon
11:20 - 12:20 Connecting Data and Teams with R
- 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
12:20 - 1:30 Lunch Break
1:30 - 2:00 Afternoon Keynote
- Dror Berel: Stop Building, Start Assembling
2:00 - 3:00 Advanced Statistical Modeling and Analytics
- 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
3:00 - 3:15 Break
3:15 - 3:35 Lightning Talks!
- Leland Russell: An R package for estimating mixtures of Benter models with ranked data
- Eric Kiflawi: Quality Assurance in Point of Care Using R
- Kelsey MacKenzie: Methods for Facilitating Multi-Institutional Data Collaboration Using Shiny
3:35 - 3:50 Break
3:50 - 4:50 Messy Data to Meaningful Insights with R
- Mohsen Soltanifar: CMHSU - An R Statistical Software to Detect MH/SU/MHSU Status in North American Healthcare Databases
- Randi Bolt: Making Sense of Messy Survey Responses with R
- David Gerbing: A framework for value visualizations