Manchester R Meetup! March 2024.


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Hi Manchester R!
** this event is open to ALL of our community! **
Happy New Year - Welcome back to the best R Meetup around!
This time, we have an extra special event for you... Manchester R will be collaborating with R Ladies to bring you three wonderful lightning talks from women in the data industry. We are all about championing and empowering our community here, so we couldn't be more excited!
R-Ladies Manchester is part of a global initiative designed to improve the gender diversity of R users worldwide and in particular, the participation and experience of women in the R community.
Follow us on meetup https://www.meetup.com/rladies-manchester/.
As before, the event will be brought to you by Datacove. We are a Data Consultancy Team based in Brighton, with experience in founding many well-attended events for R and Python. The event will be presented by our very own organiser - Abbie Brookes, Senior Analyst and AI Consultant, with assistance from Laura Mawer, Data Science Consultant at Datacove.
We will be supported by the generous team at Better Placed, at The Live Lounge, Huckletree Ancoats, Manchester. As always, we LOVE working with them!
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Our lightning talks will feature our three wonderful experts below:
Martyna Adam, Lead Data Analyst at GRAYCE. Martyna will be daring us to dream by sharing her already-successful career. In the short time since the start of her career, Martyna has worked for a multinational logistics company, and now a Magic Circle law firm, in a variety of roles, all with the goal of helping organisations make better data-driven decisions. She began with a non-traditional pathway into the tech community, and now empowers others as an SQL instructor, charity Trustee and Rising Star Award winner. She will encourage us all to transcend beyond the norm to achieve something incredible.
Agnes Bungsy, Director at **AnalyticsHacker.com** will be making R less daunting for any newcomer with her talk 'R Skills for Everyone'. She will show how AI and other tools can be utilised to make R code easier in the realm of marketing, automation, and cleaning. Previously working for large companies like Google, Moonpig, Trainline, Yahoo, McDonalds and many others... she knows a trick or two!
Fiona Pye, Senior Data Analyst at AutoTrader. Fiona began her career with a non-traditional route into tech - by completing degrees in Geosciences and Palaeobiology. She landed her first Data position at WSP, then began to thrive at the N Brown Group. During Fiona's degree, she ventured into scripting with R but recognized the demand for Python in the job market. To bridge this gap, she embarked on BINDICATOR! - a notification system to ensure she never misses a bin collection day again. This project utilizes Raspberry Pi, web scraping, automation, and system integration.
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Now, refreshments! Drinks and pizza will be served from 6pm. Introductions will begin at 6:30pm. Talks will commence at 6:45pm and the event will conclude at 8:30pm. The conversation will continue after the event at a local pub TBC – obviously!
If you didn't already have a million reasons to come, there will be (free!) R Merchandise kindly sent by Posit themselves.
Please feel free to register guests and spread the word. We look forward to seeing you all again for our exciting R Ladies x MancR!
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Manchester R Meetup! March 2024.