Workshop- Slidify | Interactive Docs with R Markdown

As promised! Hands-On Slidify Workshop:

We are very pleased to offer a Data Visualization DC workshop hosted by Dr. Ramnath Vaidyanathan as a joint Google+ Hangout with NYC. Dr. Vaidyanathan is the primary developer of the influential R package Slidify (http://slidify.org/), which allows the creation of HTML5-based presentations using R Markdown, which helps present and display your analyses. You can learn more about the good Doc starting with his GitHub account (https://github.com/ramnathv).

About the workshop:

Slidify | Interactive Docs with R Markdown

In this workshop, you will learn how to use Slidify (http://slidify.org/) to create, customize and share interactive web documents using R Markdown. The workshop would cover the following topics. Please find workshop materials (https://github.com/slidify/workshops/) here.

1. Introduction to Slidify

2. Authoring a Document

3. Styling with Frameworks

4. Customizing using Layouts

5. Extending with Widgets

6. Articles, Blogs and More!

Agenda:
• 6:00pm - Doors open, set up
• 7:00pm – Google+ Hangout connection and greetings.
• 7:05pm - PART 1: Introduction to the Slidify project.
• 7:15pm - PART 2: Follow the Google+ hangout in step-by-step assignments.
• 9:00pm - PART 3: Final wrap-up of Slidify project:

About the speaker:

Ramnath Vaidyanathan is an Assistant Professor of Operations Management at McGill University. He holds a PhD in Operations Management from the Wharton School, and has worked at McKinsey and Company. He is addicted to R and has developed two R packages, Slidify and rCharts, both aimed at simplifying the creation and sharing of interactive web-based content with R.

rCharts (http://ramnathv.github.io/rCharts/) allows the creation of dynamic graphical content using a variety of Javascript graphing libraries like d3.js, Highcharts, Leaflet, Rickshaw and others, directly from R using the familiar R syntax conventions

Dr. Vaidyanathan has also developed rNotebook (http://ramnathv.github.io/rNotebook/), an enhanced version of the KnitR Notebook, which allows you to see your Rmarkdown document and the formatted HTML instantaneously side-by-side.