Writing Functions with R (W / RL East-Lansing)

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We're back for another virtual meetup! Stephanie Kirmer will be giving a workshop about writing functions. We'll discuss when you need to write a function, how they're written, documenting ad writing test for your functions.

Information about the Speaker:

Stephanie Kirmer is a Senior Data Scientist at Saturn Cloud, a company making large scale Python easy and accessible to the data community using Dask. She has used R as well as Python for machine learning and data science throughout her career, including as a DS Tech Lead at a travel data startup, and as a Senior Data Scientist at Uptake, an industrial data science company. She holds Master's degrees in sociology and education, and was formerly an adjunct faculty member at DePaul University in Chicago.

The Zoom link is available once you completed Spring 2021 RLEL/RLC event registration link:

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