Communication
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June 21, 2025
8:00-9:00 Registration and Breakfast
9:00-9:10 Introductions
9:10-9:40 Keynote
- David Keyes: 25 Things You Didn't Know You Could Do with R
9:40-10:40 Building Smarter R Workflows
- Yan Liu: Leveraging Large Language Models in R: Practical Applications with {ellmer}
- David Gerbing: Simplified Data Analysis
- Mauro Lepore: Creating a better universe with dverse
10:40-10:55 Break
10:55-11:20 Lightning Talks! Automation Edition
- Megan Holtorf: Taking Action While You Sleep: Using GitHub Actions to Schedule Email Updates
- Zak Kindl: Automating Sports Science Reporting with R
- Lindsay Dickey: Simplify repetitive report creation
- Frank Aragona: Language Translation at Scale: Automating Bulk Document Translation with R and Quarto
11:20 - 12:20 Development in R: Evolution, Automation, and Adoption
- Jonathan McPherson: 10 Years of RStudio and What Happens Next
- Ben Matheson: Supercharge your work with Github Actions for R
- Dror Berel: From Roadblocks to Breakthroughs: Navigating the Challenges of Adopting New Open Source Tools
12:20-1:30 Lunch Break
1:30-2:30 R in Action: Metadata, Integration, and (more) Workflows
- Peter Geissert: Metadata Driven Data Science
- Hanna Winter: Introduce R to your other friends (or using R as a component in workflows)
- Evan Landman: Developing reproducible transit analysis with R
2:30-3:00 Lightning Talks!
- Samer Hijjazi: Navigating the BLS API with R: A Step-by-Step Guide
- Cassio Felix: The Power of APIs: From Integration to Shiny Apps
- Faycal Ounacer: Assessing the Impact of Coastal Upwelling on Fisheries: Insights from the California Current System
- Mohsen Soltanifar: CMHSU: An R Statistical Software Package to Detect Mental Health Status Substance Use Status and Their Concurrent Status in the North American Healthcare Administrative Databases
- L. K. Borland: Decoding R needs: Bridging the gap with university library workshops
3:00-3:15 Break
3:15-4:15 R in Public Health: From Dashboards to Healthcare Access
- Ariane Erickson: Top Features Every Public Health Dashboard Needs (and how to build them)
- Arilene Novak & Andie Hendrick: Workshop to Workflow: Automizing Weekly Respiratory Reports with Quarto
- Alec Kretchun: Evaluating access to healthcare: a modern spatial data workflow in R/python