R Ladies KC Inaugural Meetup
Details
Location still needs to be determined. It will likely be downtown KC, the plaza, or in the Mission, KS area
Join us for an event about Exploratory Data Analysis in R! We'll also have a post-workshop social where we can chat over coffee near the event location.
Agenda
10:30-10:45 Welcome and Introductions
10:45-11:45 Workshop by Gabi Cipriano and Anna Pechenina
11:45-12:00 Q&A and Discussion
About the Talk
For our first workshop, we start with Exploratory Data Analysis (EDA, for short). With EDA you can answer questions about your data with visualizations, transformations, and data models. You can then use those outputs to refine and create new questions. This talk will cover how to ask these types of questions at the beginning of your analysis in order to lead to the more interesting and substantive questions about your data.
The topics we'll cover are the following:
- Visualizing variation within and between variables
- How to deal with pesky and ever-present missing data
- Descriptive statistics and their corresponding visualizations
- Intro to string variables manipulation
Key packages we'll use: ggplot2, ~the tidyverse~, plotly, rmarkdown
We'll wrap up the workshop with an introduction to reporting in R Markdown. You'll see how to convert your code into attractive reports and presentations, and, if time permits, how to create interactive documents using Shiny.
About the Speakers
Gabi Cipriano is a data analyst at Cerner, where she transforms and visualizes clinical data from the electronic medical record for a school of public health's research projects. Anna Pechenina is a research analyst for the Department of Human Health and Services as well as a Political Science lecturer. Both have joined forces with Boryana Koseva, a bioinformatician at KU, to found R Ladies' Kansas City chapter.
Things to Know
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Feel free to bring a laptop if you would like to follow along, but it is not required. Code will be shared with attendees!
Snacks will be provided as the workshop is very close to lunch time.
We expect all attendees to abide by our community code of conduct. Please review it here: https://github.com/rladies/starter-kit/wiki/Code-of-Conduct