An intro to the R tidyverse - TBDSG Standard Meeting
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This monthly meetup will be a presentation by Dr. Thomas Keller on:
An intro to the R tidyverse: dplyr,ggplot2, and some Twitter conference data visualization
In a recent ranking of programming languages, R has climbed the ranks to 5th place in 2016; notably making it the most popular statistical programming language, and is free and open-source to boot! One reason for its continue popularity is the unparalleled power of its visualization libraries. In the past few years one library, ggplot2, and a cluster of related support libraries called the "tidyverse" have arisen that provide powerful idioms to R, including piping and functional approaches that are popular amongst data scientists in other programming languages for its ability to allow the concise expression of a workflow of transforming or reshaping data. I will introduce a few worked examples showing off the the utility of the dplyr library when matched with ggplot2. I will close with a demonstration of a library I am developing now aimed at helping people analyze the some of social medial (Twitter, specifically) of conferences. The Twitter library code is available at https://github.com/thomas-keller/tweet-conf . Slides and R code will end up here http://thomas-keller.github.io/talks/ .
Thomas Keller is a Computational Biologist and Data Scientist in the Tampa Bay region. He completed a PhD in 2012 in the field of Evolutionary Biology, and has been writing code to throw data around and visualize it since 2007 in Python and R. He is currently exploring postdoctoral appointments studying evolutionary biology, and can be reached by email at thomas (dot) e (dot) keller (at) gmail (dot) com or on Twitter at @tek_keller. Longer-form thoughts coalesce on a blog at http://thomas-keller.github.io/blog/ .
Tampa Bay Data Scientists!
The intent of this meeting is to bring together people in the Tampa Bay and surrounding areas involved or interested in data science or related professions.
There will be presentations and discussions surrounding trends, issues, news, and directions in data science.
TEKSystems has graciously provided the space as well as food and refreshments, so please come, enjoy, and help us build this community!