Looking back @ my R journey : Tips and Tricks

About the instructor:
Rahul Venugopal is a fourth-year Ph.D. scholar at the Centre for Consciousness Studies, NIMHANS, Bengaluru, India. His research revolves around understanding: how we experience the world as it is, how to improve intelligence/memory, and similar questions. He relies on many statistical & signal processing tools to make sense out of the brain. He has worked in multiple research projects involving topics like brain-computer interface, meditation, sleep, cognition, well-being, etc.

Abstract:
I am a consciousness researcher exploring various puzzles involving human minds, intelligence, and consciousness. This is an experiential talk looking back at my journey through the R verse. For my Ph.D. research work I had to model some complicated functions which were not available in conventional GUI based and one of my seniors in the lab suggested R. There it began. This talk is a reflection on challenges I faced in the process of learning R, all the things I wish I knew at multiple time points in the journey and type of mentors, I wish I dodged.