Hello everyone! We're very excited to be hosting our March meetup together with the Royal Statistical Society Environmental Section (https://rss-environmental.github.io/). We have two great speakers lined up:
Gergana Daskalova: "How to teach coding to increase diversity"
Gergana will discuss what they have learned across four years of Coding Club and introduce some of the approaches being taken in the new course to make data science skills accessible to broad audiences, as well as sharing some practical tips for creating online teaching materials. To illustrate those concepts, data visualisation examples will be presented on what Gergana calls the beautification journey.
Gergana is a PhD student in Global Change Ecology at the University of Edinburgh with research interests in biodiversity change, agro-ecology and quantitative syntheses. Gergana has led over 40 workshops on programming and statistics using R, covering themes such as working with big data, data visualisation, version control and hierarchical modelling.
