• Spatial analysis in R with the sf package, URI,CBLS Building Room 252, Kingston, RI, 24 March 2017
  This short workshop will explore the sf package, a new package for handling spatial data and conducting spatial analyis in R. Materials will be presented assuming a basic familiarity with R and a basic understanding of GIS. We will cover how to read and write spatial data files, conduct simple vector analyses (e.g. buffers, overlays, etc.), change projections, and create simple maps.
• Adventures in Crafting a Data Science Career with Jasmine Dumas, URI, Coastal Institute Auditorium, Narragansett, RI, 30 March 2017
  Join the University of Rhode Island (URI) Coastal Institute and RhodyRStats on Thursday, March 30th as we kick-off off our “Careers in R” speaker series. Special guest Jasmine Dumas, a data scientist at Simple Finance, will share her journey from biomedical engineering to data scientist and highlight two R packages that she developed, ttbbeer and shinyLP.After the talk we will re-convene at 3:30 for a short happy hour to continue discussions with Jasmine. Location TBD.
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• Version control for science: Introduction to Git and GitHub, URI,CBLS Building Room 252, Kingston, RI, 21 April 2017
  This short workshop will introduce the concept of version control and how it can be applied to research projects. The focus will be on using Git, GitHub, and RStudio. We will cover the basic concepts of Git and GitHub and will show examples from R projects via RStudio. It will be presented with the assumption that attendees know the basics of R and RStudio. No prior version control experience is expected.
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