SheffieldR

SheffieldR : Hacktoberfest 2024

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We kick off this semester’s Sheffield R User Group meetings in October with a series of hackathons to participate in Hacktoberfest 2024.

SheffieldR : June 2024 Meetup

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This month, we’re shaking things up with an exciting line-up of lightning talks presented by you, our vibrant community members! This is your chance to share your knowledge…

SheffieldR : April 2024 Meetup

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Join us for the April edition of SheffieldR User Group, where we continue to explore the exciting world of R programming and its applications. This month, we’re thrilled to…

SheffieldR : Bring your Data and Code

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This March meetup see’s a slight deviation from the normal format of the SheffieldR meetups as we are inviting you to bring your data, code, R knowledge and enthusiasm along…

SheffieldR : February 2024 Meetup

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Apologies for the short notice but thanks to Simon Rolph, who has volunteered to give a talk, we have scheduled a meeting for February.

SheffieldR : January 2024 Meetup

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SheffieldR User Group is back in January 2024 with a Health Economics special and two talks from Robert Smith and Wael Mohammed of Dark Peak Analytics and the University of…

SheffieldR : November Meetup

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After October’s Reboot, we are back with another Meetup this 20th November for a showcase using Shiny to illuminate the power of data-driven insights. Join us as we delve…

SheffieldR Reboot : Quarto for slides

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After a long hiatus SheffieldR User Group is back and we’ll be starting things off by looking at the new document preparation system Quarto and how to use it with GitHub to…

rrtools: Tools for Writing Reproducible Research in R

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NOTE: Because of the Easter holidays April’s meetup will be on the 2nd Tue of the month.

Docker and Interactive unit testing

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In this month’s meetup, Mark Dunning will give a general introduction to the Docker container platform and Phil Mike Jones will introduce strategies for interactive unit…

Stan and the Tidyverse

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Welcome back to the Sheffield R Meetup! We’re kicking off 2018 with two great talks:

R coding social

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In the run up to the festive season we’d like to invite Sheffield R users to come and join us for an R coding social! Come along for a chance to meet and greet fellow R…

Managing projects with workflowr and Introduction to DiagrammeR

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We’re back to our regular schedule after last month’s Hacktoberfest fun. Join us for talks on managing your projects with workflowr and a brief introduction to the…

Celebrating Hacktoberfest… #rstats style!

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We’ll be following up our introductory Celebrating Hacktoberfest session with drop-in sessions throughout October, so do join us if you’d like to get involved or learn more…

September Sheffield R Meetup: Object oriented systems in R + The Reproducible Thesis w/ Bookdown

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We’ve got an exciting pair of talks for you this month!

July Sheffield R Meetup: Thermal images and Object oriented systems in R

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We’ve got two great talks lined up for our last meeting before the summer break.

June Sheffield R Meetup: Literate programming and Writing a decision tree package for R

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This month Anna Krystalli will present a exploration of literate programming, following up from a discussion on literate programming techniques at our meetup in April, and…

May Sheffield R Meetup: Making R Faster

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This month we’ll be learning from Théo Michelot how to make R go faster using a couple of techniques.

April Sheffield R Meetup: Using R Notebooks and Ensembles in Machine Learning

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This month’s talks cover ensembles in machine learning and using R notebooks as a learning tool.

March Sheffield R Meetup: Code surgery and social

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In March we held our first R coding surgery and social, a chance for our members to meet, greet, learn from and collaborate with fellow R users.

February Sheffield R Meetup: Martin Garlovsky and Christopher Hopkinson

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In this month’s meeting we’ll explore survival analysis, a means of analysing data in which the outcome is the time to the occurrence of an event of interest. We’ll also be…

December Sheffield R Meetup: Dan Olner, James Waterhouse and Darrell Taylor

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This month we’ll be learning about R’s capabilities for wrangling and handling spatial data and how Sky Betting and Gaming does data science.

November Sheffield R Meetup: Shaun Coutts and Lukas Drapal

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At this month’s meeting we’ll be talking about modelling, inference, and prediction.

October Sheffield R Meetup: Mathew Hall and Mike Croucher

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At this month’s meeting we’ll be talking about how R interacts with different languages and technologies.

September Sheffield R Meetup: Alison Parton and Jeremy Oakley

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After the summer break, Sheffield R group is back with a couple of great talks to kick off the new season.

NBN Hack Results

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In March we ran a series of hack events centred around the National Biodiversity Network’s data gateway. We teamed up with Sheffield Wildlife Trust to investigate the data…

National Biodiversity Hack Event

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We’re running a hackathon event over three sessions in March. The hack will focus on the National Biodiversity Network’s data to collaboratively develop outputs that benefit…

January Sheffield R Meetup: Happy New-ish YeaR!

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This month we will be talking in more detail about our upcoming NBN Biodiversity Hack event, which will be held over the first 3 weeks of March. Paul and Anna will share…

November Sheffield R Meetup: Matt Aldridge

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This month we are delighted to welcome a guest speaker Matt Aldridge from Mango Solutions - a company which specialises in data analysis/science, training and consultancy…

October Sheffield R Meetup: Git, GitHub, and Shiny apps

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This month we will be taking a look at integrating git and github use with R. Git is a great tool to help you manage your code using version control - helping avoid that…