About us
About us
We are a local chapter of R-Ladies, a global non-profit organization encouraging, inspiring and empowering women and non-binary people to become contributors and leaders in the R programming community ([https://rladies.org/).](https://rladies.org/).)
Our mission is to create a friendly, inclusive and diverse community for people who code or would like to learn how to code in R in the Vancouver area. As a community, we focus on giving opportunities, mentorship and voice to women and non-binary people who remain an underrepresented group in the programming realm.
Videos of your past events can be found here https://m.youtube.com/@r-ladiesvancouver2962
Questions and Answers:
What is R and who is R for?
R is one of the top programming languages for processing, analyzing and visualizing data. Anyone who works with data, which in this day and age is almost most of us, can benefit from basic knowledge of R and find its data science tools useful. R is open-source, free and is supported by a welcoming, generous and fun community of developers.
What events are run or planned to be run by R-Ladies Vancouver?
Workshops, talks, spotlight on research utilizing R, hackathons and coding cafe evenings. Monthly, free of charge.
Who can join the R-Ladies Vancouver community & events
Everyone. You can be a part of building diverse and inclusive communities. Join us in our mission towards an increased presence of women and non-binary people as programmers and leaders. How can we attain this? By focusing our support and resources on this group during meetups, allowing their voices to be heard and when space is limited considering donating a spot to women/non-binary members. Also, all levels of R welcome. We do require our members to follow the R-Ladies Global Code of Conduct
How can I contribute?
Share your knowledge and coding skills by facilitating a workshop, give a talk, suggest a talk/workshop, suggest a speaker, mentor, help us find a sponsor to host our free of charge monthly events
Who organizers & contributes to R-Ladies Vancouver events?
Anything events: Yuka Takemon, @YukaTakemon | Jasmine Lai, @jmultiflorum | Cici Li|
Connect!
Email: vancouver@rladies.org
Twitter: https://twitter.com/RLadiesVan
Upcoming events
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Finding the Best Cherry Blossom Streets in Vancouver
·HybridVancouver Public Library - Mt. Pleasant Branch, 1 Kingsway, Vancouver, BC, CAFinding the Best Cherry Blossom Streets in Vancouver: Geospatial Analysis, Route Optimization, and Science Communication with R
Every spring, Vancouver's streets burst into pink, but which ones are *actually* worth visiting? And could you see the best of them all in a single route?
This talk walks through an end-to-end open data science project that answers
exactly those questions. Using freely available datasets from the
City of Vancouver Open Data Portal (public tree
inventories, street networks, and neighbourhood boundaries) we filter thousands of
trees down to Japanese flowering cherry varieties, snap each tree to its nearest
street segment using `{sf}`, and compute blossom density per block to rank the top
streets city-wide. We then solve a Traveling Salesman Problem with `{sfnetworks}`,
`{igraph}`, and Kyle Walker's `{spopt}` package to produce the **Vancouver Cherry
Blossom Marathon**: an optimized route through the 10 or 30 densest cherry blossom streets,
exported as GPX files for Garmin/Strava and as a one-click Google Maps link.The second half of the talk covers how `{Quarto}` ties the analysis into a public-
facing website with interactive maps using `{mapgl}` (MapLibre GL), sortable tables
via `{DT}`, neighbourhood choropleths, and a blog post that made it into local news.
We'll also discuss the reproducibility scaffolding (a `Makefile` pipeline) and what
it means to do science communication with genuinely open tools: MIT-licensed code,
CC-licensed public data, and an R ecosystem that anyone can run from scratch.**************************************************************
Note: this will be a hybrid event, taking place at the Mt Pleasant branch of the Vancouver Public Library as well as online via Zoom. If you are coming to the event in person, you are welcome to join us for some food and drinks at Main Street Brewing after we have finished.
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Past events
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