An evening with an R Lady from HaRvard: how to build your first neural network

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Hi Everyone,

R-Ladies Melbourne is now announcing its July event! In this months event we will be hosting an R lady coming from Harvard, Kristen Hunter who will be giving the main presentation of the evening.

Title: An evening with an R Lady from Harvard: how to build your first neural network.

Abstract: I will be giving two lightning talks. The first is on understanding the basic concepts of a neural network, and how to build a neural network in R. Next, I will discuss some underutilized R tools: the debug and profile functions. These built-in tools in Rstudio help you debug your code more easily and show you the bottlenecks in R scripts. I love interacting with the audience and answering questions, and I am also happy to discuss my experiences working in academia, data science, and software engineering.

Kristen is excited to be joining R ladies Melbourne this month! She is currently a visiting PhD student at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research. Normally you can find her in Boston working on her PhD in statistics at Harvard University. Her research focuses on experimental design and causality. Before starting her PhD, she worked as a data scientist and later a software engineer for an education analytics startup. She built machine learning models to predict student performance and data pipeline and processing tools. She loves learning about new technology and bringing together different tools to optimize her work, from GitHub to the Hadleyverse to SQL.

Hope to see you all there!

R-Ladies Melbourne