2023 CascadiaRConf Agenda

Agenda

Communication

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August 19, 2023

  • All times in PST
  • All talks in Pelton Auditorium in the Weintraub building
  • Lunch and reception in the Weintraub lunch room



8:00 - 9:00 AM: Registration and breakfast

9:00 - 9:05 AM: Welcome

9:05 - 9:35 AM: Isabella Velásquez

  • The medium is the message: R programmers as content creators

9:35 - 9:45 AM: Break

9:45 - 10:35 AM: Teaching R to yourself and others

  • David Keyes: How to Convince Your Teammates to Learn R
  • Deepsha Menghani: Learning to create Shiny modules by turning an existing app modular
  • Colleen O’Briant: Teaching Programming with Tidyverse Koans: A Journey of Successes and Failures

10:35 - 10:45 AM: Break

10:45 - 11:35 AM: Stats and my story

  • Dror Berel: Tidy everything… How I finally got to dive in Time series, Tree and Graph/Network data structures and analysis, thanks to their tidy packages
  • Kangjie Zhang: Beyond the Comfort Zone: Traditional Statistical Programmers Embrace R to Expand their Toolkits
  • Valeria Duran: Maximizing Performance: Strategies for Code Optimization #### 11:35 - 11:45 AM: Break

11:45 AM - 12:35 PM: More than just R

12:35 - 1:35 PM: Lunch

1:35 - 2:05 PM: Jessica Minnier, Ted Laderas

  • Retrospective of Cascadia R

2:05 - 2:55 PM: Shiny for research

  • Jadey Ryan: Using Shiny to optimize the climate benefits of a statewide agricultural grant program
  • Lovedeep Gondara: Using R Shiny for cancer surveillance, lessons from the trenches
  • Zachary Ruff: Shiny_PNW-Cnet: AI-powered desktop audio processing for biodiversity research and monitoring

2:55 - 3:05 PM: Break

3:05 - 3:25 PM: Lightning talks

  • Cari Gostic: RShiny, Big Data and AWS: A tidy solution using Arrow
  • Sean Kross: Visualize Data Analysis Pipelines with Tidy Data Tutor
  • C. Nathalie Yuen: Come TogetheR, Right Now, OveR R
  • Mohsen Soltanifar: SimSST: An R Statistical Software Package to Simulate Stop Signal Task Data

3:25 - 3:30 PM: Break

3:30 - 4:20 PM: R is for statistics

  • Nathan TeBlunthuis: Misclassification Causes Bias in Regression Models: How to Fix It Using the MisclassificationModels Package
  • Melissa Bather: Using R to Estimate Animal Population Density
  • Justin Sherrill: Transit Access Analysis in R

4:20 - 4:30 PM: Closing remarks

4:30 - 6:00 PM: Reception