Communication
Join us on
Slack
June 21, 2025
8:00 - 9:00 Registration and Breakfast
9:00 - 9:10 Introductions
- Cameron Mulder & Tim Anderson, Cascadia R Conference
- Dr. Qing Hu, Marilyn and Gerry Cameron Dean, Portland State
University, School of Business
9:10 - 9:40 Keynote
- David Keyes: 25 Things You
Didn’t Know You Could Do with R
9:40 - 10:40 Building Smarter R Workflows
- Yan Liu: Leveraging Large
Language Models in R: Practical Applications with {ellmer}
- David Gerbing: Simplified
Data Analysis
- Mauro Lepore: Creating a
better universe with dverse
10:40 - 11:00 Break
11:00 - 11:20 Lightning Talks! Automation Edition
- Megan Holtorf: Taking
Action While You Sleep: Using GitHub Actions to Schedule Email
Updates
- Lindsay Dickey:
Simplify repetitive report creation
- Frank Aragona: Language
Translation at Scale: Automating Bulk Document Translation with R and
Quarto
11:20 - 12:20 Development in R: Evolution, Automation, and
Adoption
- Jonathan McPherson:
10 Years of RStudio and What Happens Next
- Ben Matheson: Supercharge
your work with Github Actions for R
- Dror Berel: From Roadblocks
to Breakthroughs: Navigating the Challenges of Adopting New Open Source
Tools
12:20 - 1:30 Lunch Break
2:30 - 2:55 Lightning Talks!
- Samer Hijjazi:
Navigating the BLS API with R: A Step-by-Step Guide
- L. K. Borland: Decoding R
needs: Bridging the gap with university library workshops
- R-Ladies+: Returning to
Portland this year!
2:55 - 3:15 Break
3:15 - 4:15 R in Public Health: From Dashboards to Healthcare
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