R-Ladies Lightning Talks: How You Use R

Join us in June for an evening of short and insightful talks related to using R. Topics will highlight the breadth of use cases our members solve using R and the packages they love. Stay tuned as we update the list of topics and speakers!

Agenda:
6:00 - 6:10 - Join online
6:10 - 6:20 - Welcome and announcement
6:20 - 7:20 - Talk part 1
7:20 - 7:25 - Short break
7:25 - 8:00 - Talk part 2

Speakers and talk titles:

• Shannon Pileggi - Leveraging the R community for the job interview

Shannon Pileggi (@PipingHotData) is an enthusiastic statistical collaborator and educator with experience partnering on data analysis in corporate, tech, and government settings. Shannon is currently a Senior Statistician at Adelphi Research in Doylestown, PA working in pharmaceutical market research. Shannon’s day-to-day in R include: fine-tuning ggplots to convey analysis results, contributing to an internal package to automate routine analyses/tasks, streamlining work-flows for repetitive analyses, and developing shiny aps.

• Alice Walsh - Data nightmares: True stories for scary data

Alice Walsh (@sciencealice), Ph.D. is a computational biologist who studies diseases at the molecular level. She is also an organizer of R-Ladies Philly and enjoys data cleaning, generating hypotheses from complex data, and mentoring others.

• Zhenya Cherkas - Rshiny : connecting the silos

Zhenya Cherkas is an Associate Director at Johnson & Johnson Global Medical Safety. Using R for over 15 years, she always worked on the better access and use of multiple disconnected data sources for better data science in less time. She holds PhD in Statistics, MS and BS in Mathematics and BS in Applied Mathematics and Computer Science.

• Jake Riley - Headliner: a new package for dynamic insights

Jake Riley is a data analyst at CHOP and the author of several R packages to improve the workflow of data analysis. His new R package, [headliner], allows users to generate dynamic, informative titles for charts and reports. Read more here https://rjake.github.io/headliner/"

• June Choe - Using icon fonts for data viz

June Choe (@yjunechoe) is a PhD student in Linguistics at the University of Pennsylvania, where he studies the mechanisms of human language acquisition and processing. He enjoys blogging about R and reading about data visualization in his free time.

• Madhavi Ratnagiri - Identification of pulmonary dysfunction using machine learning

Madhavi Ratnagiri is a research associate at the University of Delaware, with a PhD in Electrical Engineering and a Masters in Biomedical Engineering. Over the years she has worked with various types of data including speech, image and time sequence. She programs in C++, matlab, perl, R and most recently python.