Twitter Workshop

Dear R-Ladies of Melbourne,

We have a fun and informative workshop ahead this month. The workshop will be presented by Saskia Freytag and Anna Quaglieri.

In the first of part of the workshop, you will learn how to create a Twitter API and scrape tweets from the internet. In the second part, everyone will get their hands dirty with a fun-centred analysis of tweets relating to #RuPaulsDragRace. The focus will be the creation of quick informative graphs, as well as gaining an understanding of twitteR data structures. At the end, everyone will be encouraged to create their own graphical analysis - with the best graph being awarded a small prize.

What to do/bring with you:

DO NOT forget to bring your laptop if you would like to take part in the competition.

Please also make sure to install the following packages from CRAN prior to the workshop:

# twitter setup

install.packages(c("twitteR", "ROAuth","RCurl", "RJSONIO", "RSentiment"))

install.packages(c("tm", "wordcloud", "tidyr", "dplyr", "ggplot2", "purrr", "rvest", "stringr"))

Workshop materials will be posted on our GitHub closer to the date.

Start Your Engines! and May the Best Woman Win!

Speakers' Biographies

Saskia Freytag completed her Masters in Statistical Science at University College London. After finishing she moved back to Germany, where she completed a PhD in Biostatistics in 2014. She then got the opportunity to relocate to Melbourne to work as a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute. Her research focus is methodological development for the analysis of high-throughput sequencing data. She is the co-founder of R-Ladies.

Anna Quaglieri completed her Master Degree in Statistics between the Universities of Bologna, Glasgow and Melbourne. After finishing uni she became involved in the Bioinformatics Division at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute and now she doing her PhD with Professor Terry Speed. She is the co-founder of the R-Ladies in Melbourne and hopefully, in the early future, she will be able to push for the birth of an R-Ladies in Bologna!

We are looking forward to having you there!

Don't forget to RSVP!