May 2018: Creating interactive data application with R-Shiny for beginners

Hi @RLadies Vancouver community!

Here's an announcement for our May meetup, please make sure you carefully read to the end of the message.

To get a spot: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/creating-interactive-data-application-with-r-shiny-for-beginners-tickets-45923757194

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Join us for a 1.5-hour introductory workshop on how to turn R analysis into an interactive web application using R Shiny. Huge thanks to our members Akshi Chaudhary and Nazli Ozum Kafaee from UBC Masters of Data Science for preparing and leading the workshop.

What is R-Shiny and why learn it?

• Shiny is an R package that makes it easy to build interactive web apps straight from R.
• These apps are a powerful tool for communicating and sharing data to your stakeholders, research community or clients.
• Need some familiarity with R, but does not require knowledge of typical web development software such as HTML, CSS, or JavaScript
• Would you like to learn how to create an online platform for your data to be explored interactively using RShiny? Join us!

Here are some examples of how RShiny is used:

• environmental monitoring: https://kfrost.shinyapps.io/INmetals/
• fish stock assessment app: https://gallery.shinyapps.io/lake_erie_fisheries_stock_assessment_app/
• disease monitoring: https://gallery.shinyapps.io/CDCPlot/

About the workshop & instructions:

• Please expect a hands-on session in a friendly and laid-back atmosphere where we all encouraged to learn together.
• All levels are welcome, but be prepared that we created this with beginners in mind. You should be familiar with R and RStudio.
• Sorry, we have no edibles available for this meetup, so grab a bite before or after the workshop

We are sponsored by Lighthouse Labs,thank you!!!

IMPORTANT**

1. Get ticket via eventbrite to guarantee a spot. Feel free to RSVP here, but we use eventbrite for spot bookings. To get ticket follow here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/creating-interactive-data-application-with-r-shiny-for-beginners-tickets-45923757194
2. Bring your LAPTOP
3. If this is your first R-Ladies event, please take a moment to review our R-Ladies Global code of conduct: https://github.com/rladies/starter-kit/wiki/Code-of-Conduct
4. Who is this allowed to attend the workshop?
   Everyone is welcome to join us at our events and to be a part of our mission to empower gender minorities with the skills and knowledge to code in one of the top programming language in data science, which is R. To fulfill this mission we do ask participants to respect a focus on the encouragement and support for women and non-binary people during our events.

See you there!

Ozum, Akshi, Marion, Anna