R-Ladies First Meetup

Hello!

The first ever RLadies, Denver meeting is next week, Tuesday, October 29th, at 7:30 pm at the Galvanize Platte location - 1644 Platte St, Denver, CO 80202.

We will be discussing the vision for the new group.

We’ll also have a presentation about a ggplot dialect, “slow ggplotting”, for teaching and learning the ggplot2 package, the beloved implementation of the layered grammar of graphics in R:

One rather savvy and experienced R described his experience with ggplot2: “All good ggplots start like all good makefiles, by copying the last one you edited and deleting most of it.” I’d agree that it’s possible to get a lot done with good examples and copy paste. But is this ideal? How can we teach/learn/internalize ggplot and maybe get away from this copy/paste approach? Using some “slow ggplot” principles might help. The approach emphasizes incrementalism, clarity, and aesthetic mapping; and it deemphasizes geoms. While verbose and a little unorthodox, slow ggplotting might assist more users unlock the power of ggplot2. A short demo using this approach will be part of the talk. And we can of course discuss --- feedback on these ideas will certainly be welcome.

Please feel free to pass along this announcement to more “RLadies”. We (Meghan Sposato and Gina Reynolds are co-organizing) hope many can make it to this first meeting and future meetings! 😊