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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crosspost - PyLadies Vancouver July Meetup
improving, 116 W 6th Avenue Suite 300, Vancouver, BC, CAJoin PyLadies Vancouver for our July meetup, hosted at Improving Vancouver! This month we have two talks on AI agents and large language models.
⚠️ Please RSVP through Luma, not Meetup: https://luma.com/3oxfwqry
Your spot is only confirmed once you register on Luma, so we can plan for the right headcount and space.
Talk 1: What Happens When Your Agent Has to Wait for a Human by Melanie Warrick
You built an agent in Python. It reasons, calls tools, handles its own steps. Then it hits a step that needs a human to approve something, and that approval might take five minutes or five days. The process sits there holding all its state in memory, waiting, until it crashes and everything the agent figured out is gone. This talk is about that moment: the agentic loop, why its state is only as durable as the process running it, and how durable execution with Temporal makes the loop survive crashes and long waits. Includes a short live demo.
Melanie has been developing AI solutions for over a decade and leads developer relations at Temporal, focused on AI and durable execution.
Talk 2: A Practical Introduction to Generative AI and Large Language Models by Daniel Chen
A grounded, practical look at how generative AI and LLMs actually work: how they generate responses, why the same prompt can give different outputs, and what that means for applications that need reliability. We'll also look at how LLMs fit into real data science workflows in Python, with a focus on building intuition for what these models can and can't do.
Daniel is a Data Science Lecturer in the Statistics Department at UBC and teaches for the UBC Master of Data Science program.
Support PyLadies Vancouver
The event is free to attend. If you'd like to support us, donations help keep our meetups running, and a $25 donation gets you a PyLadies Vancouver tote bag: https://psfmember.org/civicrm/contribute/transact/?reset=1&id=60
A huge thank you to Improving Vancouver for hosting us in their space and providing pizza for the evening! 🍕
## Thank you to our venue host: Improving Vancouver
Improving Vancouver is an IT consulting and software development firm (formerly Bit Quill Technologies) based in Vancouver, BC. They specialize in application development, data engineering, and AI solutions — helping teams build modern, scalable, data-driven applications. We're grateful for their support of the local Python community.
👉 Remember: RSVP on Luma to secure your spot — https://luma.com/3oxfwqry1 attendee
Past events
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