R-Ladies Canberra (Canberra, Australia)

To learn about upcoming events, join the Meetup group and follow us on Twitter!

R-Ladies Canberra welcomes members of all R proficiency levels, whether you’re a new or aspiring R user, or an experienced R programmer interested in mentoring, networking & expert upskilling. Our community is designed to develop our members’ R skills & knowledge through social, collaborative learning & sharing. Supporting minority identity access to STEM skills & careers, the Free Software Movement, and contributing to the global R community!

A local chapter of R-Ladies Global, R-Ladies Canberra exists to promote gender diversity in the R community worldwide. We are pro-actively inclusive of queer, trans, and all minority identities, with additional sensitivity to intersectional identities. Our priority is to provide a safe community space for anyone identifying as a minority gender who is interested in and/or working with R. As a founding principle, there is no cost or charge to participate in any of our R-Ladies communities around the world.

We are part of Global R-Ladies group. You can access our presentations, R scripts, and Projects on our Github account and follow us on twitter to stay up to date about R-Ladies news!

Event Notes

Code-Along Part 1

Speaker: Dr. Erika Duan, Dept of Education, Skills & Employment

Thursday, 3 December 2020

Beyond Beamer: Modern and Dynamic Presentations with R Markdown

Speaker: Dr. Emi Tanaka, Monash University

Tuesday, 30 June 2020

March 2020 Lightning Talks

Speakers: Members of R-Ladies

Thursday, 26 March 2020

Keep Calm and Code!

Thursday, 21 November 2019

Literate Projecting

Speaker: Dr. Alison Hill, RStudio

Thursday, 3 October 2019

Workshop for Design a Personal Website with R

Speaker: Dr. Alison Hill, RStudio

Thursday, 3 October 2019

Visualising High-Dimensional Data Tutorial

Speaker: Professor Di Cook, Monash University

Wednesday, 18 September 2019

Statistics on Street Corners

Speaker: Professor Di Cook, Monash University

Wednesday, 18 September 2019

R Skills Workshop: R Markdown and Building Packages

Speaker: Dr. Nick Tierney, Monash University, and Dr. Damjan Vukcevic, University of Melbourne

Wednesday, 3 July 2019

Geostatistics in the Fast Lane Using R-TensorFlow and GPUs

Speaker: Dr. Andrew Zammit Mangion, National Institute for Applied Statistics Research Australia (NIASRA)

Wednesday, 28 May 2019

Tidying and Plotting in R

Speaker: Hedvig Skirgård, Australian National University

Wednesday, 6 May 2019

Bayesian Modelling with R

Speaker: Dr. Jiali Wang, CSIRO Data61

Monday, 25 March 2019

R-Ladies Canberra Launch

Tuesday, 26 February 2019