Agenda
Communication
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August 19, 2023
- All times in PST
- All talks in Pelton Auditorium in the Weintraub building
- Lunch and reception in the Weintraub lunch room
8:00 - 9:00 AM: Registration and breakfast
9:00 - 9:05 AM: Welcome
9:05 - 9:35 AM: Isabella Velásquez
- The medium is the message: R programmers as content creators
9:35 - 9:45 AM: Break
9:45 - 10:35 AM: Teaching R to yourself and others
- David Keyes: How to Convince Your Teammates to Learn R
- Deepsha Menghani: Learning to create Shiny modules by turning an existing app modular
- Colleen O’Briant: Teaching Programming with Tidyverse Koans: A Journey of Successes and Failures
10:35 - 10:45 AM: Break
10:45 - 11:35 AM: Stats and my story
- Dror Berel: Tidy everything… How I finally got to dive in Time series, Tree and Graph/Network data structures and analysis, thanks to their tidy packages
- Kangjie Zhang: Beyond the Comfort Zone: Traditional Statistical Programmers Embrace R to Expand their Toolkits
- Valeria Duran: Maximizing Performance: Strategies for Code Optimization #### 11:35 - 11:45 AM: Break
11:45 AM - 12:35 PM: More than just R
- Ted Laderas: A gRadual introduction to web APIs and JSON
- Mark Niemann-Ross: Use R to control a Raspberry Pi
- Ed Borasky: Eikosany: Microtonal Algorithmic Composition with R
12:35 - 1:35 PM: Lunch
1:35 - 2:05 PM: Jessica Minnier, Ted Laderas
- Retrospective of Cascadia R
2:05 - 2:55 PM: Shiny for research
- Jadey Ryan: Using Shiny to optimize the climate benefits of a statewide agricultural grant program
- Lovedeep Gondara: Using
R Shiny for cancer surveillance, lessons from the trenches
- Zachary Ruff: Shiny_PNW-Cnet: AI-powered desktop audio processing for biodiversity research and monitoring
2:55 - 3:05 PM: Break
3:05 - 3:25 PM: Lightning talks
- Cari Gostic: RShiny, Big Data and AWS: A tidy solution using Arrow
- Sean Kross: Visualize Data Analysis Pipelines with Tidy Data Tutor
- C. Nathalie Yuen: Come TogetheR, Right Now, OveR R
- Mohsen Soltanifar: SimSST: An R Statistical Software Package to Simulate Stop Signal Task Data
3:25 - 3:30 PM: Break
3:30 - 4:20 PM: R is for statistics
- Nathan TeBlunthuis: Misclassification Causes Bias in Regression Models: How to Fix It Using the MisclassificationModels Package
- Melissa Bather: Using R to Estimate Animal Population Density
- Justin Sherrill: Transit Access Analysis in R