Why R? Webinars are back after successful launch of Why R? 2020 Conference! All videos from the past series and from the recently finished conference can be watched on our youtube.com/WhyRFoundation channel. See this post to find out about upcoming webinars in October 2020. The aim of webinars is to support local R groups during the pandemic.

Details

• donate: whyr.pl/donate/
• channel: youtube.com/WhyRFoundation
• date: every Thursday 8:00 pm UTC+2
• format: 45 minutes long talk streamed on YouTube + 10 minutes for Q&A
• comments: ask questions on YouTube live chat

Future talks

2020-10-08 Introduction to Twitter data analysis in R

• speaker: Suhem Parack
• meetup event
• webinar

2020-10-15 platypus - image segmentation & object detection made easy with R

• speaker: Michał Maj
• meetup event
• webinar

2020-10-22 Liberate the coder and empower the non coder

• speaker: Marion Libouban
• meetup event
• webinar

2020-10-29 How to start your own #rstats group: Building an inclusive and fun R community

• speakers: Kyla McConnell & Julia Müller
• meetup event
• webinar

Previous talks

Colin Gillespie Me, Myself and my Rprofile. Video

Sydeaka Watson Data Science for Social Justice. Video

John Blischak Reproducible research with workflowr: a framework for organizing, versioning, and sharing your data analysis projects. Video

JD Long Taking friction out of R: helping drive data science adoption in organizations. Video

Leon Eyrich Jessen In Silico Immunology: Neural Networks for Modelling Molecular Interactions using Tensorflow via Keras in R. Video

Erin Hodgess Using R with High Performance Tools on a Windows Laptop. Video

Julia Silge Understanding Word Embeddings. Video

Bernd Bischl, Florian Pfisterer and Martin Binder Pipelines and AutoML with mlr3. Video

Mateusz Zawisza + Armin Reinert Uplift modeling for marketing campaigns. Video

Erin LeDell - Scalable Automatic Machine Learning in R with H2O AutoML. Video

Ahmadou Dicko - Humanitarian Data Analysis with R. Video

Dr. Nina Zumel and Dr. John Mount from win-vector - Advanced Data Preparation for Supervised Machine Learning. Video

Lorenzo Braschi - rZYPAD: Development pipeline for R production. Video

Robin Lovelace and Jakub Nowosad (authors of Geocomputation with R) - Recent changes in R spatial and how to be ready for them. Video

Heidi Seibold, Department of Statistics (collaboration with LMU Open Science Center) (University of Munich) - Teaching Machine Learning online. Video

Olgun Aydin - PwC Poland - Introduction to shinyMobile. Video

Achim Zeileis from Universität Innsbruck - R/exams: A One-for-All Exams Generator - Online Tests, Live Quizzes, and Written Exams with R. Video

Stay up to date

• subscribe to YouTube channel youtube.com/c/WhyRFoundation
• join Why R? Slack whyr.pl/slack/
• join Meetup