Join us for the April edition of SheffieldR User Group, featuring two insightful talks:
Profiling and Optimising Your R Code
Dive into the world of code optimisation with Dr. Daniel Brady, Research Software Engineer at the University of Sheffield. Learn practical tips to streamline your code for improved efficiency and performance.
R Strategies for Health Data Pipelines
Dr. Joe Heffer, Research Data Engineer at the University of Sheffield, will explore essential strategies for handling health data within R pipelines. Discover techniques for packaging, ensuring data integrity, and securely handling sensitive data, along with insights on managing unexpected data volumes.
This March meetup see's a slight deviation from the normal format of the SheffieldR meetups as we are inviting you to bring your data, code, R knowledge and enthusiasm along to help each other out in a "Hackathon" style meeting.
See the Website for details which are copied below: https://sheffieldr.github.io/posts/2024-03-21/index.html
Maybe you’ve a problem using renv to manage your packages or you’re stuck with a particular data wrangling problem or haven’t worked out the perfect layout of your graph then bring your data and code along and see if there is someone who can help you solve your problem. Whether that is using the Tidyverse, data.table, ggplot2 or base graphics.
Obviously we’ll need people with experience to come and help others solve their problems, but even if you’re just starting out on your R journey you will know something to contribute.
If you’d like to come along we’ve setup a short form for you to indicate what areas you are looking for assistance with or can help others with.
## Reprex
Its possible that the section of code you are having trouble with is part of a larger workflow. To make it easier for people to understand the problem and offer assistance it would be beneficial if you are able to abstract out the problem to what is know as a Minimal “Reproducible Example” often shortened to the portmanteau “reprex”. There is advice on How to create a Minimal, Reproducible Example on Stack Overflow and there is also the R package {reprex} which helps “prepare reproducible example code via the clipboard”.
Data Security and Sensitivity
If your problem involves sensitive data then please be mindful of this. See the University of Sheffield Information Security Training pages, in particular the training on Protecting Research Data, Protecting Personal Data and Protecting Information. If you are not a student or member of staff at The University of Sheffield please refer to your institution or employers guidelines on data security.
Dive into {targets}
Delve into the dynamic world of the {targets} R package—a powerful tool designed to streamline and enhance your data science and analysis workflows.
targets is not just another package; it’s a game-changer for reproducibility, efficiency, and scalability in your R projects. Developed to manage complex dependency graphs, targets automates the execution of your analyses, making it easier to track changes.
In this session we’ll introduce the targets package, discuss why it’s useful and explore the core features of the targets package by defining a basic pipeline.
Biography - Simon Rolph
Simon is a Data Scientist at the UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology where he works to enhance our understanding of biodiversity and contribute to informed environmental decision-making. Technology is his enabler: data science methods, research software best practices, and digital engagements help him achieve these goals.
Remote attendance is possible using Google Meet: https://meet.google.com/ahi-irru-rvx
Dive into {targets}
Delve into the dynamic world of the {targets} R package—a powerful tool designed to streamline and enhance your data science and analysis workflows.
targets is not just another package; it’s a game-changer for reproducibility, efficiency, and scalability in your R projects. Developed to manage complex dependency graphs, targets automates the execution of your analyses, making it easier to track changes.
In this session we’ll introduce the targets package, discuss why it’s useful and explore the core features of the targets package by defining a basic pipeline.
Biography - Simon Rolph
Simon is a Data Scientist at the UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology where he works to enhance our understanding of biodiversity and contribute to informed environmental decision-making. Technology is his enabler: data science methods, research software best practices, and digital engagements help him achieve these goals.
3D Plots with Rayshader 📦 + Reflections on rstudio::conf 2020
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3D Plots with Rayshader
Do you sometimes feel your plots look a bit... flat? rayshader is a package that makes fabulous looking 3D plots and topographic maps. Great for spicing up a boring presentation and wowing your friends. It's very easy to use. This presentation will be a walk-through the key functionality of rayshader.
rayshader uses elevation data in a base R matrix and a combination of raytracing, spherical texture mapping, overlays, and ambient occlusion to generate beautiful topographic 2D and 3D maps. In addition to maps, rayshader also allows the user to translate ggplot2 objects into beautiful 3D data visualizations.
3D glasses not required.
Simon Rolph is a PhD student at the University of Sheffield in the Department of Animal and Plant Sciences. I using R to do population ecology: comparing population models of hundreds of species of plants from the COMPADRE Plant Matrix Database and constructing population models of the Soay Sheep on St Kilda.
R-Shiny for Decision Making and Debugging in RStudio
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R-Shiny for Decision Making
A short presentation on the use of R-Shiny to aid decision makers. Two examples are open source; including a study of the social and geographic disparities in the access to and the participation in parkrun events in England. The project aimed to support parkrun’s planned expansion, by providing recommendations for 200 new event locations, maximising access for deprived communities.
http://iol-map.shef.ac.uk/
Robert Smith is a PhD Student in Public Health Economics & Decision Science, ScHARR.
Getting to know the debugger in RStudio
If you're writing moderately complicated code in R there are times when your code throws an error but you don't know why: the error occurs inside a function or loop, the error message is obtuse or unhelpful, one of the many parameter sets you're processing is causing a problem... In this talk I'll introduce the debugger in RStudio, which helps you to get inside your code and diagnose problems from within.
Tamora James is a PhD researcher in Animal and Plant Sciences with a former life as a web and software developer. She is a co-organiser of the Sheffield R Users Group and a contributor to the British Ecological Society publication ‘A Guide to Reproducible Code in Ecology and Evolution’.
Package development for women and other under represented groups
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Join us welcoming Emma Rand for a special talk on the RForwards project. After the talk we will have an Xmas social with mulled wine (available to purchase from the Red Deer) and mince pies.
Emma Rand is Lecturer (Teaching & Scholarship) in the Department of Biology at the University of York. She teaches data analysis and reproducibility for analysis pipelines predominantly to those who do not see themselves as programmers.
https://buzzrbeeline.blog/
@er13_r
RForwards is an R Foundation task force that was originally set up in December 2015 to address the under-representation of women in the R community. An analysis of CRAN package maintainers estimated that fewer than 15% were women, and a useR! participant survey found that women were less likely than men to have experience contributing to or writing packages. In 2017 it was rebranded to accommodate other under-represented groups such as LGBTQI, minority ethnic groups, and people with disabilities. The task force is organised as a core team plus a number of sub-teams that focus on particular tasks. One of these is a Teaching Team covering methodology, materials and workshops designed for under-represented groups. In this talk I will describe a workshop particularly intended to increase the number and visibility of women, people of colour and LBGTQ+ individuals in the scientific coding community. Coding is a valuable skill in research and many degrees courses in the life sciences provide training in programming. These equip individuals to implement programming-based solutions to scientific problems but rarely to professionally document and disseminate their code.
Join us to work on Hacktoberfest projects with support from Research Software Engineering (RSE) @ Sheffield!
(If you don't have a TUoS swipe card, please register here for a pass to the Diamond: https://forms.gle/iwBKYLVoC5uouUCg7)
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Research Software Engineering (RSE) @ Sheffield (https://rse.shef.ac.uk/), Sheffield Bioinformatics Hub (https://sbc.shef.ac.uk/) & Sheffield R User Group welcome you to Hacktoberfest 2019! Starts 1st Oct. & every Tuesday evening in October.
Hacktoberfest is back! a one-month celebration of open source software, all about encouraging meaningful contributions to the open source ecosystem, for beginners and veterans alike.
We’re offering a range of sessions, open to anyone (not just R users!) in a friendly, informal environment, as a great opportunity to learn more about:
- open source and the huge diversity of projects available for contribution.
- how to find projects, tasks and ways to contribute.
- version control through git and GitHub.
- programming and software development.
- effective collaboration online.
Make five contributions to projects on GitHub during October and get a Hacktoberfest t-shirt!
Sessions
Introductory session
1st Oct. 5.30- 7.30 pm, The Red Deer
We’ll kick off with an introductory session on open source on Tues 1st October. The focus of the session will be on using GitHub to explore and contribute to open source and is not limited to R users. Feel free to bring your laptop and follow allow to get yourself set up, practice and get ready to contribute.
Hacky hour sessions
Meeting room 1, the Diamond, 5:30 pm to 8:00 pm
The University of Sheffield, 32 Leavygreave Rd, S3 7RD
For every following Tuesday evening of October, we’ve booked a room to explore Hacktoberfest projects together! The room is booked on the following dates:
- 08 October
- 15 October
- 22 October
- 29 October
(If you don't have a TUoS swipe card, please register here for a pass to the Diamond: https://forms.gle/iwBKYLVoC5uouUCg7)
Come to as many sessions as you like, stay as long as you can, bring your friends! If anyone gets stuck, there’ll be others around to help. There’ll also be at least one member of the RSE team at each session to help with questions and demystifying any open source jargon.
By the end, hopefully, you’ll have had an opportunity to learn more about collaboration, play around with something new and managed to contribute and get the t-shirt to prove it!
Hope to see you there!
Please read our Events Code of Conduct (https://do.co/hacktoberconduct) before attending. Happy hacking!
Find out more about Hacktoberfest: https://hacktoberfest.digitalocean.com/
Join us to work on Hacktoberfest projects with support from Research Software Engineering (RSE) @ Sheffield!
(If you don't have a TUoS swipe card, please register here for a pass to the Diamond: https://forms.gle/iwBKYLVoC5uouUCg7)
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Research Software Engineering (RSE) @ Sheffield (https://rse.shef.ac.uk/), Sheffield Bioinformatics Hub (https://sbc.shef.ac.uk/) & Sheffield R User Group welcome you to Hacktoberfest 2019! Starts 1st Oct. & every Tuesday evening in October.
Hacktoberfest is back! a one-month celebration of open source software, all about encouraging meaningful contributions to the open source ecosystem, for beginners and veterans alike.
We’re offering a range of sessions, open to anyone (not just R users!) in a friendly, informal environment, as a great opportunity to learn more about:
- open source and the huge diversity of projects available for contribution.
- how to find projects, tasks and ways to contribute.
- version control through git and GitHub.
- programming and software development.
- effective collaboration online.
Make five contributions to projects on GitHub during October and get a Hacktoberfest t-shirt!
Sessions
Introductory session
1st Oct. 5.30- 7.30 pm, The Red Deer
We’ll kick off with an introductory session on open source on Tues 1st October. The focus of the session will be on using GitHub to explore and contribute to open source and is not limited to R users. Feel free to bring your laptop and follow allow to get yourself set up, practice and get ready to contribute.
Hacky hour sessions
Meeting room 1, the Diamond, 5:30 pm to 8:00 pm
The University of Sheffield, 32 Leavygreave Rd, S3 7RD
For every following Tuesday evening of October, we’ve booked a room to explore Hacktoberfest projects together! The room is booked on the following dates:
- 08 October
- 15 October
- 22 October
- 29 October
(If you don't have a TUoS swipe card, please register here for a pass to the Diamond: https://forms.gle/iwBKYLVoC5uouUCg7)
Come to as many sessions as you like, stay as long as you can, bring your friends! If anyone gets stuck, there’ll be others around to help. There’ll also be at least one member of the RSE team at each session to help with questions and demystifying any open source jargon.
By the end, hopefully, you’ll have had an opportunity to learn more about collaboration, play around with something new and managed to contribute and get the t-shirt to prove it!
Hope to see you there!
Please read our Events Code of Conduct (https://do.co/hacktoberconduct) before attending. Happy hacking!
Find out more about Hacktoberfest: https://hacktoberfest.digitalocean.com/
Research Software Engineering (RSE) @ Sheffield (https://rse.shef.ac.uk/), Sheffield Bioinformatics Hub (https://sbc.shef.ac.uk/) & Sheffield R User Group welcome you to Hacktoberfest 2019! Starts 1st Oct. & every Tuesday evening in October.
Hacktoberfest is back! a one-month celebration of open source software, all about encouraging meaningful contributions to the open source ecosystem, for beginners and veterans alike.
We’re offering a range of sessions, open to anyone (not just R users!) in a friendly, informal environment, as a great opportunity to learn more about:
- open source and the huge diversity of projects available for contribution.
- how to find projects, tasks and ways to contribute.
- version control through git and GitHub.
- programming and software development.
- effective collaboration online.
Make five contributions to projects on GitHub during October and get a Hacktoberfest t-shirt!
Sessions
Introductory session
1st Oct. 5.30- 7.30 pm, The Red Deer
We’ll kick off with an introductory session on open source on Tues 1st October. The focus of the session will be on using GitHub to explore and contribute to open source and is not limited to R users. Feel free to bring your laptop and follow allow to get yourself set up, practice and get ready to contribute.
Hacky hour sessions
Meeting room 1, the Diamond, 5:30 pm to 8:00 pm
The University of Sheffield, 32 Leavygreave Rd, S3 7RD
For every following Tuesday evening of October, we’ve booked a room to explore Hacktoberfest projects together! The room is booked on the following dates:
- 08 October
- 15 October
- 22 October
- 29 October
(If you don't have a TUoS swipe card, please register here for a pass to the Diamond: https://forms.gle/iwBKYLVoC5uouUCg7)
Come to as many sessions as you like, stay as long as you can, bring your friends! If anyone gets stuck, there’ll be others around to help. There’ll also be at least one member of the RSE team at each session to help with questions and demystifying any open source jargon.
By the end, hopefully, you’ll have had an opportunity to learn more about collaboration, play around with something new and managed to contribute and get the t-shirt to prove it!
Hope to see you there!
Please read our Events Code of Conduct (https://do.co/hacktoberconduct) before attending. Happy hacking!
Find out more about Hacktoberefest: https://hacktoberfest.digitalocean.com/
Research Software Engineering (RSE) @ Sheffield (https://rse.shef.ac.uk/), Sheffield Bioinformatics Hub (https://sbc.shef.ac.uk/) & Sheffield R User Group welcome you to Hacktoberfest 2019! Starts 1nd Oct. & every tue evening in October.
Hacktoberfest is back! a one-month celebration of open source software, all about encouraging meaningful contributions to the open source ecosystem, for beginners and veterans alike.
We’re offering a range of sessions, open to anyone (not just R users!) in a friendly, informal environment, as a great opportunity to learn more about:
- open source and the huge diversity of projects available for contribution.
- how to find projects, tasks and ways to contribute.
- version control through git and GitHub.
- programming and software development.
- effective collaboration online.
Make five contributions to projects on GitHub during October and get a Hacktoberfest t-shirt!
Sessions
Introductory session
1st Oct. 5.30- 7.30 pm, The Red Deer
We’ll kick off with an introductory session on open source on the 2nd of October. The focus of the session will be on using GitHub to explore and contribute to open source and is not limited to R users. Feel free to bring your laptop and follow allow to get yourself set up, practice and get ready to contribute.
Hacky hour sessions
Meeting room 1, the Diamond, 5:30 pm to 8:00 pm
The University of Sheffield, 32 Leavygreave Rd, S3 7RD
For every following Tuesday evening of October, we’ve booked a room to explore Hacktoberfest projects together! The room is booked on the following dates:
- 08 October
- 15 October
- 22 October
- 29 October
(If you don't have a TUoS swipe card, please register here for a pass to the Diamond: https://forms.gle/iwBKYLVoC5uouUCg7)
Come to as many sessions as you like, stay as long as you can, bring your friends! If anyone gets stuck, there’ll be others around to help. There’ll also be at least one member of the RSE team at each session to help with questions and demystifying any open source jargon.
By the end, hopefully, you’ll have had an opportunity to learn more about collaboration, play around with something new and managed to contribute and get the t-shirt to prove it!
Hope to see you there!
Please read our Events Code of Conduct (https://do.co/hacktoberconduct) before attending. Happy hacking!
Find out more about Hacktoberefest: https://hacktoberfest.digitalocean.com/
Mapping and spatial modelling in R for crime prevention and conservation
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JOIN US IN WELCOMING SPECIAL GUESTS REKA SOLYMOSI & JOANNA HILL FOR A SPATIAL SUMMER SPECIAL! 🔍🗺
USING R TO SCRAPE, SAMPLE AND MAP CROWDSOURCED REPORTS OF SEXUAL HARASSMENT IN INDIA
Reka Solymosi, University of Manchester
In this session I will describe a project where I scraped data from a crowdsourced website for reporting sexual harassment in India called safecity.in, and used mapping techniques to sample for further qualitative analysis, and again to draw conclusions about the spatial distribution of various incidents.
Speaker Bio: Reka is a lecturer in quantitative methods focused on making use of new forms of data to gain insight into people's behaviour and subjective experiences, particularly focusing on crime, transport, and spatial research. Reka is also interested in promoting data literacy.
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USING SPATIAL MODELLING IN R TO PROMOTE WILDLIFE CONSERVATION IN UGANDA
Joanna Hill, Rutgers School of Criminal Justice
Poaching is a serious problem in many developing countries, with detrimental consequences to wildlife, tourism and human health. A key conservation concern is that anti-poaching rangers cannot provide complete spatial and temporal coverage of protected areas, which means that much poaching activity goes undetected. Drawing from my PhD fieldwork in Uganda collecting qualitative and quantitative data about poaching, this presentation will show some spatial modelling of snare data and discuss how this can be used to reduce poaching and promote wildlife conservation.
Speaker Bio: Joanna Hill is a Post-Doctoral Associate at the Rutgers School of Criminal Justice in the US ( https://www.c3e.rutgers.edu). She received her Ph.D. in Security Science from University College London, an MRes degree in Biosystematics from Imperial College and a first class honors degree in Animal Behavior and Conservation from Anglia Ruskin University. Her research interests focus on applying crime science, systems thinking and evolutionary concepts to conservation problems. She is now researching poaching and human-elephant conflict in Uganda using crime science principles.
Webscraping in R: a short walk through rvest, selenium and purrr
Rich Louden, Data Scientist, Wilko
Having data to work on is key for any analysis, and with a large amount of data being held on the web a key skill is being able to obtain this data. As such, this talk will focus on a quick walkthrough of some of the webscraping packages and techniques in r, along side the use of some key tidyverse functions to help speed up and smooth the process.
Webscraping in R: a short walk through rvest, selenium and purrr
Rich Louden, Data Scientist, Wilko
Having data to work on is key for any analysis, and with a large amount of data being held on the web a key skill is being able to obtain this data. As such, this talk will focus on a quick walkthrough of some of the webscraping packages and techniques in r, along side the use of some key tidyverse functions to help speed up and smooth the process.
Density-structured models & best practices for teaching in R
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Best practices for teaching (and learning) R
The practice of teaching (and learning) R has changed dramatically in the past 10 years. In this session I will discuss how innovations such RStudio and tidyverse have created a more interactive and engaging experience for both learners and trainers. If you teach R, or are starting to learn R, come along and share your experiences on what approaches and resources you have found useful.
Speaker bio: Mark joined the University of Sheffield in October to start a Bioinformatics Core service having previously worked for Cancer Research Uk in Cambridge. He has been teaching R and data analysis for 10 years and recently qualified as a Software Carpentry instructor.
Using density-structured models to understand weed dynamics at large scales
A central problem in ecology is the mismatch between the scale at which we can easily collect data, and the scale at which we need to understand populations. This problem is caused by the expensive and time-consuming nature of data collection and amplified by the variable nature of natural systems across time and space. Using small-scale data with ‘traditional’ population models can therefore be problematic when trying to predict or describe large-scale population dynamics. Addressing this scale mismatch requires the expansion of data collection and the development of appropriate population models. Density-structured models provide rapid data collection via the summarisation of abundances by into discrete density ‘states’, and robust analysis through modelling dynamics as a function of transition probability between these categories. This talk will be a short tour of my PhD research, where I explored the use of density-structured models to investigate the dynamics of plant populations over large scales.
Speaker bio: Rob Goodsell is a postdoctoral researcher in APS working on large-scale ecological modelling. In this talk he will give us an overview of his PhD project [using rstan, tidyverse, ggplot2}.
PhaRmaceuticals – R tools for validation of pharmaceutical data
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Creation of an online repository for storage of regulatory standard validation material for R packages
The use of R in pharmaceutical research is restricted by a fear of using "un-validated" software resulting in rejected submissions from the industry regulators, but times are changing. Pharmaceutical statisticians supported by R-consortium funding and industry funding through the Transcelerate project are working on the provision of a validation framework which will help users to be able to quantify the risk of using a package. Whilst each user or company will still have to justify the level of risk they are willing to accept before using a package, it is hoped that a collaboration site containing key validation metrics, which are available to all and accessible through pharmaR.github.io, will allow all R users to make an informed choice before using a package. The site will also provide users with downloadable evidence that can substantiate their level of trust that a package is functioning as expected.
Lyn Taylor received her B.Sc. in Applied Statistics from Sheffield Hallam University, her M.Sc. in Medical Statistics from Leicester University and her Ph.D. in Statistical Modelling of Markers of Severity in Rheumatoid Arthritis from Sheffield University. Lyn has worked in medical research for over 17 years, starting out at SmithKline Beecham in the pre-clinical statistics group before moving into the world of CRO’s. After 11 years at PAREXEL and 3 years at PRA Health Sciences as an Associate Director and Senior principal Biostatistician, Lyn will become the Sheffield Office Manager of the new Phastar office starting in Feb 2019. Lyn is the chairperson for the Sheffield local group RSS, co-ordinates the Statistical Activity Network in Sheffield (SANS) and was on PSI CALC before joining the PSI Statistical computing committee which is now the PSI AIMS SIG. Through the AIMS SIG, Lyn is working with a team to set up a Web page on GitHub containing documentation regarding R package Validation. Lyn’s current statistical interests including multivariate modelling, estimands and the use of R in industry.
Tools for comparative analysis - visualisation and deep learning
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Our meetup this month features a comparative analysis double bill, with an introduction to phylogenetic comparative analysis and visualisation in R from Chris Cooney and machine learning approaches to image categorisation (with a python flavour) from Yichen He.
Phylogenetic comparative analysis and visualisation in R
Chris Cooney (http://macroevolution.group.shef.ac.uk/about-the-team/dr-chris-cooney/) is a postdoc in the Department of Animal and Plant Sciences at the University of Sheffield working on evolutionary questions related to the diversification of birds. Central to this work are phylogenies ('trees' showing the evolutionary relationships among species) and large, multidimensional datasets capturing variation in organisms' phenotypic traits. In his talk, Chris will present some useful tools for analysing and visualising phylogenetic comparative data in R (e.g. ape, phytools, MCMCglmm), and provide a brief discussion of some of the challenges (and opportunities) associated with analysing complex – and slightly unusual – datasets of avian traits, including 3-D scans of bill morphology and calibrated digital photographs of plumage colouration for the majority of the world's 10,000 bird species.
Deep learning on labelling bird plumage images
Yichen He (http://macroevolution.group.shef.ac.uk/about-the-team/yichen-he/) is a PhD student in the Department of Animal and Plant Sciences at the University of Sheffield. His research interests encompass computer graphics, computer vision and machine learning. In this talk he'll demonstrate using the python package tensorflow to label bird plumage images automatically.
Research Software Engineering (RSE) @ Sheffield (https://rse.shef.ac.uk/) & Sheffield R User Group welcome you to Hacktoberfest 2018! Starts 2nd Oct. & every tue evening in October.
Hacktoberfest is back! a one-month celebration of open source software, all about encouraging meaningful contributions to the open source ecosystem, for beginners and veterans alike.
We had a great time last year, hosting Hacktoberfest sessions as part of the Sheffield R Users group so we’re teaming up with Sheffield RSE and doing it again!
We’re offering a range of sessions, open to anyone (not just R users!) in a friendly, informal environment, as a great opportunity to learn more about:
- open source and the huge diversity of projects available for contribution.
- how to find projects, tasks and ways to contribute.
- version control through git and GitHub.
- programming and software development.
- effective collaboration online.
Make five contributions to projects on GitHub during October and get a Hacktoberfest t-shirt!
Sessions
Introductory session
2nd Oct. 5.30- 7.30 pm, The Red Deer
We’ll kick off with an introductory session on open source on the 2nd of October. The focus of the session will be on using GitHub to explore and contribute to open source and is not limited to R users.
Hacky hour sessions
Meeting room 1, the Diamond, 5:30 pm to 8:30 pm
The University of Sheffield, 32 Leavygreave Rd, S3 7RD
For every following Tuesday evening of October, we’ve booked a room to explore Hacktoberfest projects together! The room is booked on the following dates:
- 09 October
- 16 October
- 23 October
- 30 October
(If you don't have a TUoS swipe card, please register here for a pass to the Diamond: https://goo.gl/forms/7npNfDJoTkZJe21E2)
Come to as many sessions as you like, stay as long as you can, bring your friends! If anyone gets stuck, there’ll be others around to help. There’ll also be at least one member of the RSE team at each session to help with questions and demystifying any open source jargon.
By the end, hopefully, you’ll have had an opportunity to learn more about collaboration, play around with something new and managed to contribute and get the t-shirt to prove it!
Hope to see you there!
Please read our Events Code of Conduct (http://do.co/hacktoberconduct) before attending. Happy hacking!
Find out more about Hacktoberefest: https://hacktoberfest.digitalocean.com/
Research Software Engineering (RSE) @ Sheffield (https://rse.shef.ac.uk/) & Sheffield R User Group welcome you to Hacktoberfest 2018! Starts 2nd Oct. & every tue evening in October.
Hacktoberfest is back! a one-month celebration of open source software, all about encouraging meaningful contributions to the open source ecosystem, for beginners and veterans alike.
We had a great time last year, hosting Hacktoberfest sessions as part of the Sheffield R Users group so we’re teaming up with Sheffield RSE and doing it again!
We’re offering a range of sessions, open to anyone (not just R users!) in a friendly, informal environment, as a great opportunity to learn more about:
- open source and the huge diversity of projects available for contribution.
- how to find projects, tasks and ways to contribute.
- version control through git and GitHub.
- programming and software development.
- effective collaboration online.
Make five contributions to projects on GitHub during October and get a Hacktoberfest t-shirt!
Sessions
Introductory session
2nd Oct. 5.30- 7.30 pm, The Red Deer
We’ll kick off with an introductory session on open source on the 2nd of October. The focus of the session will be on using GitHub to explore and contribute to open source and is not limited to R users.
Hacky hour sessions
Meeting room 1, the Diamond, 5:30 pm to 8:30 pm
The University of Sheffield, 32 Leavygreave Rd, S3 7RD
For every following Tuesday evening of October, we’ve booked a room to explore Hacktoberfest projects together! The room is booked on the following dates:
- 09 October
- 16 October
- 23 October
- 30 October
(If you don't have a TUoS swipe card, please register here for a pass to the Diamond: https://goo.gl/forms/7npNfDJoTkZJe21E2)
Come to as many sessions as you like, stay as long as you can, bring your friends! If anyone gets stuck, there’ll be others around to help. There’ll also be at least one member of the RSE team at each session to help with questions and demystifying any open source jargon.
By the end, hopefully, you’ll have had an opportunity to learn more about collaboration, play around with something new and managed to contribute and get the t-shirt to prove it!
Hope to see you there!
Find out more about Hacktoberefest: https://hacktoberfest.digitalocean.com/
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