A little background

R-Ladies East Lansing welcomes R-enthusiasts of all proficiency levels, including aspiring and experienced R programmers, who are interested in mentoring, networking & expertise upskilling. This non-profit, civil society community is designed to develop 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!

Anyone and everyone interested in R/Data Science should join the group. We encourage members to actively participate, contributing as learners, teachers, developers or innovators! We encourage women and minority genders to present/lead most sessions, conversations but we have no restrictions whatsoever about who can participate in membership, discussions and other activities. Please join us and bring your R-family & R-friends!

2019: What’s next?

Upcoming Workshops

• Intro to Statistics w/ R (Spring; workshop series)
• Intro to RMarkdown (Summer)
• Intro to Shiny (Summer)
• Intro to Version Control (Git) w/ R (Summer)

Register & RSVP on Meetup: https://meetup.com/rladies-eastlansing

Would you like to team-lead a workshop? Contact us if you’d to present for 5–10 min slots within the workshop or longer if desired.

Join the channels on Slack: #workshop-rstats #workshop-shiny #workshop-rmarkdown OR Email us: eastlansing@rladies.org

Introduce a Girl to Engineering (2019-02-16)

Register for R-Ladies East Lansing’s activity booth: http://meetu.ps/e/Gfntz/yBMBS/f

MSU Women in Engg. outreach: http://bit.ly/msu-wie-k12-outreach

Women in Data Science Conference (2019-04)

https://widsconference.org

Register: TBA

Would like to give a talk/present a poster? Stay tuned on Meetup. Contact us: eastlansing@rladies.org

R-Ladies East Lansing Bookclub

Academic incl.

• R for Data Science
• Learning Statistics with R
• R programming for Data Science
• Hands-On Programming with R

Nonfiction incl.

• Algorithms to Live by
• Weapons of Math Destruction

Blog posts & Articles incl.

• Excuse me, do you have a moment to talk about version control?
• Good enough practices in Scientific Computing
• Happy Git w/ R

Meetup Presentations/Material

GitHub | Google Drive | Photos

You & R-Ladies East Lansing

• Join the R-Ladies Community on Slack ( https://bit.ly/rlel-slack-signup)

• Lead (or team-lead) presentations/discussions in a meetup

• Help run the meetup(s) (help R-newbies, help pick up pizza)

• Contribute to Blog Entries, Webpage ( https://rladies-eastlansing.github.io)

• Be a Social Butterfly ( Twitter | Facebook | Courier pigeon?)

• Sponsor a meeting (OR help find us monthly meeting sponsors; <$75)

• Bring in a speaker and/or Bring in fellow R-users!

• Suggest a topic & bring in volunteers from the 200+ Meetup/Slack R-Ladies!

• Getting Involved @ R-Ladies: https://rladies.org/about-us/help/

How to be in touch?

Access our presentations, R scripts and more on Github and follow us on twitter to stay up to date about R-Ladies news! Join the Meetup group to be notified of our upcoming meetings!

• R-Ladies Global
  • Meetup: https://meetup.com/rladies-east-lansing/
    • Twitter: @RLadiesELansing & @RLadiesGlobal
  • Slack: https://rladies-eastlansing.slack.com
  • Github: @rladies-eastlansing & @rladies
  • E-mail:
    • eastlansing [at] rladies [dot] org
    • janani [at] rladies [dot] org
    • info [at] rladies [dot] org

The Team

Organizers: Janani Ravi, Camille Archer

Co-organizers: Kayla Johnson, Arjun Krishnan (~ Krishnan Lab)

PS Community Policies & Code of Conduct:

Full community guidelines are found here: https://github.com/rladies/starter-kit/wiki