Data Science Communities of Practice - UseR!

This page provides summaries of discussions and tutorials organized by User R! GC Community of Practice


Discussions at Use R! gccollab group :

  • Best way to start and keep learning R
  • R with Python
  • From Excel to R
  • Reading various kinds of data in R
  • Open R codes for GC: on GCcode and GitHub
  • RStudio news and tricks
  • Events and Forums for R users
  • data.table for efficient data processing
  • ggplot2 and its extensions for data visualization
  • Shiny for Web App development, Interactive Data Visualization and Analysis
  • R Markdown for reproducible research and development
  • Record Linking and other Data Engineering tasks in R
  • Geo/Spatial coding and visualization in R
  • Text Analysis in R
  • Machine Learning and Modeling in R


Tutorials and webinars at Friday's "Lunch and Learn Data Science with R" meetups:

  • 30 Jul 2021: Geospatial data tools in R (code)
  • 16 Jul 2021: Dual Coding - Python and R unite!
  • 9 Jul 2021: Exploring ggplots (recording, code)
  • 2 Jul 2021: Parsing GC Tables (code)
  • 25 Jun 2021: Using the API for open data portal within R (recording, code)
  • Analyzing PSES results using R and Shiny: 21 Apr 2021
  • Building R packages: 16 Apr 2021 - 21 Apr 2021 (recording, code)


Tutorials and webinars at RStudio:

  • Shiny Apps from Concept to Production