purrr with Phoebe Wong

• What we'll do
Phoebe will walk through the purrr package, a complete and consistent functional programming toolkit for R. It will be a hands-on workshop focusing on map() functions that help to perform iterative tasks with more readable code. It is especially helpful when working with nested list, for example, JSON objects, a common data format from web scraping outputs and databases.

The workshop is designed to be beginner friendly that no prior experience with purrr is required. However, some experience with data manipulation in lists and data frames in R will be helpful to understand the content. We recommend you to bring your personal laptop with R and RStudio installed, however, it is not a requirement. More setup details to follow closer to the date.

About the speaker

Phoebe Wong is a research analyst in the analytics group of a Hollywood movie production company. She uses R at her day job, while outside of work, she uses R to wrangle interesting public data and build Shiny applications. She presented at useR! 2017 on her personal project, a Shiny application to visualize Microsoft Outlook calendar history. She holds a Bachelor degree in Psychology at University of California, Berkeley.

• What to bring
A laptop with R and RStudio installed, and cat puns/jokes if you've got 'em ;)

• Important to know
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