CANCELLED: A ~Very Special~ R Function Show & Tell
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UPDATE 2024-02-04: Given the extreme weather that's rolling through Santa Barbara, we've decided to cancel this meetup. We hope you all can stay home, safe, and dry until this storm passes!
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Hi R-Ladies SB!
What do we all love more than a well-designed and helpful function?
Learning how to use that function with friends (and a minimal, easy-to-reproduce example), of course :)
Inspired in part by data science artwork (see Allison Horst’s amazing portfolio as an example) and in part by our own attempts at coming up with creative ways to remember new tools, we invite you to join us for an R function show-and-tell! This event will be held in person at the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS) on Monday, February 5th, from 5:30 to 7 pm.
What to expect:
- Attendees should arrive with a favorite function(s) in mind
- We’ll facilitate some mixing and mingling so that folks with similar interests might find one another to collaborate with.
- We’ll provide paper and pens for sketching out your function. Got artists in your group? Feel free to get creative with it! Not so confident in your drawing skills? No problem. Some hand-written annotations and arrows can get the job done.
- Everyone will hang their functions on the wall, gallery-style, for others to explore and learn from. We may take turns saying a few words about our function, why it’s so rad, and how others might use it.
ADDITIONALLY: This is a special edition R-Ladies SB meetup, which was planned to intentionally coincide with when some R-Ladies from other chapters are in town (a huge thanks to Beatriz Milz, from R-Ladies São Paulo, who reached out and inspired this meetup). We are so excited to meet and network with others from our global community, and we hope you all are too :)
See you there!
Sam, Camila, Danielle
Banner art by Allison Horst. Alt Text: “janitor::clean_names(): convert all column names to *_case!” Below, a cartoon beaver putting shapes with long, messy column names (pulled from a bin labeled “MESS” and “not so awesome column names”) into a contraption that converts them to lower snake case. The output has stylized text reading “Way more deal-withable column names.” Learn more about clean_names and other awesome data cleaning tools in janitor.
