Name: R-Ladies ATL Spring 2024 Meeting - March 7
Start: 2024-03-07T18:30:00-05:00
End: 2024-03-07T20:00:00-05:00

**R-Ladies ATL Spring 2024 Meeting - March 7, 2024: 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm**

ZOOM LINK: [https://zoom.us/j/98619499368?pwd=bkp6TTdBU2xNWlFwTGtsa0FBdStGdz09](https://zoom.us/j/98619499368?pwd=bkp6TTdBU2xNWlFwTGtsa0FBdStGdz09)

**AGENDA:**

* 6:30-7:00 Welcome and Introductions
* 7:00-7:45 Rmarkdown Explained and Demo (with brief intro to Quarto)
* 7:45-8:00 Q&A, Open Discussion - Ideas for Next Meeting(s)

**HELPFUL RESOURCES:**

* [RMarkdown Get Started](https://rmarkdown.rstudio.com/lesson-1.html)
* [RMarkdown Cookbook](https://bookdown.org/yihui/rmarkdown-cookbook/)
* [Quarto Get Started](https://quarto.org/docs/get-started/)
* [R Ladies Organization](https://rladies.org/)

**MEETING MATERIALS:**

* [Slides](https://melindahiggins2000.github.io/RLadiesATL_03072024/#/title-slide)
* [Github Repo](https://github.com/melindahiggins2000/RLadiesATL_03072024)

Melinda Higgins

R-Ladies Atlanta

R-Ladies

Technology

Data Analytics

Data Visualization

Data Science

[https://melindahiggins.netlify.app/](https://melindahiggins.netlify.app/)

[https://www.nursing.emory.edu/faculty-staff/melinda-k-higgins](https://www.nursing.emory.edu/faculty-staff/melinda-k-higgins)

Melinda Higgins is co-founder of [R-Ladies Atlanta](https://www.meetup.com/rladies-atlanta/) and current (2020-2022) Vice Chair of District 5 for the [American Statistical Association Council of Chapters](https://www.amstat.org/ASA/Membership/Chapters.aspx). She is also the author/creator of two online courses: [R for SAS Users](https://www.datacamp.com/courses/r-for-sas-users) and [Reproducible Templates for Analysis and Dissemination](https://www.coursera.org/learn/reproducible-templates-analysis). She is a [senior biostatistician and research professor](http://nursing.emory.edu/faculty-and-research/directory/profile.html?id=980) in the Office of Nursing Research - School of Nursing - Emory University in Atlanta, GA (2007-current). She is the author and teacher of two PhD level courses at Emory: [Quantitative Analysis of Clinical Data](https://melindahiggins2000.github.io/N736/) every Fall semester and [Big Data Analytics for Healthcare](https://melindahiggins2000.github.io/N741bigdata/) every Spring semester. Prior to that she was a Principal Research Scientist at the Georgia Tech Research Institute (1996-2011) and Program Manager for the $17M National Guard Bureau Technology Consortium.

R-Ladies ATL Spring 2024 Meeting - March 7

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