Copilot for R

We are back to virtual for this month so we have the opportunity to pull in long time friend of the meetup, David Smith, from the West Coast.

Questions are encouraged in the monthly-meetup-chat channel in the nyhackr slack. Likewise, people should list jobs in the job-postings channel.

After the talk we are going to give away free tickets to attendees to both Data Council in Austin March 28-30 and D4 Conference in Tampa April 9-21.

Those that don't win free tickets can use code NYOpenStat20 for 20% off Data Council and nyhackr for 20% off D4 Conference.

About the Talk:
Did you know that Copilot, GitHub's AI "pair programmer", knows how to program in R? In this talk, I'll demonstrate how you can speed up the process of writing R code in Visual Studio Code. Copilot dynamically generates R statements and even entire functions based on context from your existing projects.

By way of example, I'll write a function to interface R with the new Azure OpenAI Service, and have Copilot assist with the process by generating the required code.

Please come along with any questions you may have about Copilot, Azure OpenAI Service, and AI generally and I'll do my best to answer them after the talk.

About David:
David leads the Cloud Advocacy team for Microsoft specializing in the topics of artificial intelligence and machine learning. Since 2009 he has been the editor of the Revolutions blog http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com where he writes regularly about applications of data science with a focus on the programming language "R", and is also a founding member of the R Consortium. Follow David on Twitter as @revodavid.

The talk will begin at 7 PM America/New_York and we will start admitting people to the event shortly before. Since this is completely remote there will be no pizza but everyone is encouraged to have pizza individually.