Open Tech Calendar

Our April meetup will be held jointly with EdinbR (www.meetup.com) and we will be joined by one of our organisers, Dr. Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel.

That’s what Nicola said:
A tidy case study of Nicola Sturgeon’s COVID-19 briefings

If you've also spent the last year watching the COVID-19 briefings almost daily, you might have also been thinking "I wonder what an analysis of this data would reveal". In this talk, Mine will walk you through a case study of Nicola Sturgeon's COVID-19 briefings, involving web scraping, text analysis, and modeling using tools from the tidyverse, tidytext, and tidymodels.

Password for the Zoom session will be sent out on the day of the event.

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R-Ladies is a worldwide organization whose mission is to promote gender diversity in the R community.

A question we often get is "Are men welcome to attend this event?"

As a diversity initiative, the mission of R-Ladies is to achieve proportionate representation by encouraging, inspiring, and empowering people of genders currently underrepresented in the R community. R-Ladies’ primary focus, therefore, is on supporting minority gender R enthusiasts to achieve their programming potential, by building a collaborative global network of R leaders, mentors, learners, and developers to facilitate individual and collective progress worldwide.

**As such, we strongly encourage cis-men who attend this event to come as guests of R-Ladies who are minority genders (including but not limited to cis/trans women, trans men, non-binary, genderqueer, agender).**

All attendees are strongly encouraged to review the R-Ladies Code of Conduct (rladies.org) and must abide by it.