About us
About us
We are a local chapter of R-Ladies, a global non-profit organization encouraging, inspiring and empowering women and non-binary people to become contributors and leaders in the R programming community ([https://rladies.org/).](https://rladies.org/).)
Our mission is to create a friendly, inclusive and diverse community for people who code or would like to learn how to code in R in the Vancouver area. As a community, we focus on giving opportunities, mentorship and voice to women and non-binary people who remain an underrepresented group in the programming realm.
Videos of your past events can be found here https://m.youtube.com/@r-ladiesvancouver2962
Questions and Answers:
What is R and who is R for?
R is one of the top programming languages for processing, analyzing and visualizing data. Anyone who works with data, which in this day and age is almost most of us, can benefit from basic knowledge of R and find its data science tools useful. R is open-source, free and is supported by a welcoming, generous and fun community of developers.
What events are run or planned to be run by R-Ladies Vancouver?
Workshops, talks, spotlight on research utilizing R, hackathons and coding cafe evenings. Monthly, free of charge.
Who can join the R-Ladies Vancouver community & events
Everyone. You can be a part of building diverse and inclusive communities. Join us in our mission towards an increased presence of women and non-binary people as programmers and leaders. How can we attain this? By focusing our support and resources on this group during meetups, allowing their voices to be heard and when space is limited considering donating a spot to women/non-binary members. Also, all levels of R welcome. We do require our members to follow the R-Ladies Global Code of Conduct
How can I contribute?
Share your knowledge and coding skills by facilitating a workshop, give a talk, suggest a talk/workshop, suggest a speaker, mentor, help us find a sponsor to host our free of charge monthly events
Who organizers & contributes to R-Ladies Vancouver events?
Anything events: Yuka Takemon, @YukaTakemon | Jasmine Lai, @jmultiflorum | Cici Li|
Connect!
Email: vancouver@rladies.org
Twitter: https://twitter.com/RLadiesVan
Upcoming events
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Posit Conf 2026 Watch Party
UBC, 6359 Agronomy Road, UBC, Vancouver, BC, CACan't make it to the Posit Conference in Houston Texas? Come join us for a Posit Conf 2026 watch party! This is the premier event for the open-source data science community, focusing on the human ingenuity behind today's most powerful technical tools. This will feature talks in R, Python, and AI.
More information of the sessions are available here:
https://conf.posit.co/2026/sessions/
Schedule (Times are in CT which is 2 hours ahead)
https://irp.cdn-website.com/d4d6e48c/files/uploaded/PST-Conf26-AgendaAtAGlance-preConf-v5.pdfWe will have Rladies Stickers and other Rstickers for participants!
The stream will be running from 7am - 3:15pm Pacific but we will be watching together from 9-3 on Tuesday and Wednesday so feel free to drop in at any time. Add when you will be there or see when other people are around here: https://www.when2meet.com/?38365288-3SZic
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- 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
- Who is this allowed to attend the event?
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.
3. 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.3 attendees
Past events
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