Meetings

Summer Bonanza: Warwick Branding | Marketing Analytics | Maps | Clinical Trials

talks

Warwick

branding

Quarto

maps

marketing analytics

clinical trials

A bumper meeting with four talks!

Jun 10, 2024

Ella Kaye, Jeremy Horne, Carlos Cámara-Menoyo, Luke Ouma

Fitting Wiggly Data: Generalized Additive Models

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models

Using ‘Generalized Additive Models (GAMs)’ to fit regression models to ‘wiggly’ or non-linear data.

Nov 26, 2023

Chris Mainey

Interactive Data Visualisation

talks

dataviz

reproducibility

shiny

Using {htmlwidgets} with/without {shiny} in reproducible Open Data workflows.

May 16, 2023

Charlie Hadley

Using Predictive Modelling to Study the Impact of COVID-19 on Energy Consumption

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modelling

Using elastic net regression and neural network models to predict what would have happened in the absence of the pandemic, and comparing these ‘counterfactuals’ with observed electricity and gas consumption in several hundred households.

Mar 8, 2023

Ellen Zapata-Webborn

Let R browse the web for you: An introduction to web-scraping with RSelenium

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web-scraping

Nicole Schwitter introduces how R can be used to collect data from web pages.

Dec 8, 2022

Nicole Schwitter

R and Docker

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reproducibility

In this online event, we continue the reproducibility theme from our last meetup, with James Tripp introducing Docker containers and how they can be used with R. See full details below.

Sep 15, 2022

James Tripp

Managing R script dependencies: automagic and renv

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reproducibility

In this first session of the reproducibility series, we introduce two methods to deal with library dependencies: {automagic} and {renv}

Jul 14, 2022

Carlos Cámara-Menoyo

Code Review

talks

reviews

Talk slides

May 25, 2022

Iain Emsley

Sensitivity and Robustness Analysis in Bayesian Networks with the ‘bnmonitor’ R package

talks

dataviz

Talk slides

Mar 9, 2022

Manuele Leonelli

Long Term Gas Supply & Demand Scenarios

talks

dataviz

Talk slides

Mar 9, 2022

Kasia Taylor and Ben Dickel

The Grammar of Graphics: an introduction to ggplot2

talks

dataviz

Talk slides

Feb 16, 2017

David Selby

Animated plots

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dataviz

Animation is an R package to create and export animations to a variety of formats (HTML/JS, GIF, Video, PDF), and it also serves as a gallery of statistical animations.

Feb 2, 2017

Rachel Lynne Wilkerson