TW.R x HK.R 台港社群交流

• 講者將會以英文演講，聽眾用中文或英文發問都可以。The main talk will be delivered in English, but attendants are free to ask questions in Chinese.

• 此活動與 R-Ladies Taipei 合辦，請在此頁面報名。This event is co-organized with R-Ladies Taipei, please register in this webpage. ( https://www.meetup.com/Taiwan-R/events/236327688/ )

• Program 議程表

19:30-20:00 Lightening Talk 閃電秀
An (Short?) Introduction to Bioconda, UpSetR, and snakemake
@亮亮 liang2

20:00-21:00 Main Session 主議程
Harnessing social media data with machine learning
@Lucia

• Main Session 主議程

Title: Harnessing social media data with machine learning

Abstract: Judging others' psychological traits is not only an essential skill in successful social living, but also an important factor in product development. Psychological traits are a key driver behind human interaction, behavior and emotions. Although accurate judgments stem from social-cognitive skills, developments in machine learning show that computer models can also make valid judgments. It is also possible that this technique can assist clinical diagnosis in the future.

Research by Lucia Chen (speaking), Tao Gong and Rob Davidson.
Directions: https://m-labs.hk/public_events.html

Speaker: Lucia, Lushi Chen

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Master in Linguistics The University of Hong KongMaster in Psychology City University of Hong Kong
Lucia has just finished her master degree of psychology this December. She is going to pursue a doctoral degree in psychology in the coming year.Her major research area is to use social media data to predict psychological traits. Her previous works include using internet data to predict user’s satisfaction with life and depression symptoms.She is also interested in app development, especially a chat bot.
Programming language: R, Python, Javascript, HTML, Meteor Actual speaking language: Chinese, English and some broken Japanese

Interests: watch panda videos on ipanda, foodie, traveling

• Lightening Talk 閃電秀

Title: An (Short) Introduction to Bioconda, UpSetR, and snakemake

Abstract: This short talk will introduce a few interesting on-going R projects and packages in independent sections. First section covers (Bio)conda, the package management system for both R and Python, where bioconda brings sepecific support for commonly used bioinformatic tools in both languages. Second section introduces a R package, UpSetR, which implements a novel way to visualize intersections of sets, that is, to visualize how different groups of samples overlap with each other. If time permits, lastly, an extended makefile-like build system, snakemake, will be demonstrated to construct a parallelized analysis pipeline involving both R and Python scripts.

Speaker: 亮亮 (or liang2), Liang-Bo Wang

亮亮 (or liang2) is a PhD student in Computational and Systems Biology at Washington University in St. Louis (WUSTL) with research interest in cancer genomics. Aside from academics, liang2 attends and speaks in Python and R open source communities, including Taipei.py and MLDM Monday. His recent project is the Chinese translation of the official Python documentation.