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RLadies Ottawa invites you to our third annual data hackathon to celebrate International Women's day!

At our posit::conf(2024) watch party we watched “GitHub: How To Tell Your Professional Story” by Abigail Haddad. In this presentation Haddad highlighted the importance of building a compelling portfolio that not only highlights your skills but explains your professional identity.

For this year’s data challenge we encourage you to find YOUR passion project to round out your portfolio and develop your professional story! Take a look at your GitHub profile and ask yourself, what type of project is missing here?

For example, if you participated in last year’s challenge and created a traditional plot of some sort, this year try creating a visualization using a table, dashboard or another-outside-the-box presentation tool.

You can find the full details on our website.

For more inspo, be sure to check out our upcoming in-person event Coding for a Cause with Claudie Larouche on March 18th.

Guidelines

Although this challenge is hosted by R-Ladies Ottawa, you don’t have to use R to participate. You could use R, Python, a combination of the two, or anything you’re comfortable with!

No previous programming experience is required! If you’re interested in participating, but aren’t sure where to start, check out the recordings from our Introduction to R workshops that we hosted in early 2024. The workshops will give you a solid foundation in data analysis and data visualization using R.

While anyone is welcome to participate in the challenge and submit an entry, only submissions by women and gender minorities who reside in Canada will be eligible for the prizes.

You can participate individually, or in teams of up to 5 people!

The most creative submission, chosen by the organizing team, will receive a $25 virtual gift card to Maker House, generously donated by them. Maker House offers a curated collection of gifts and homewares, crafted locally in Ottawa and Canada 🍁

How to submit an entry

This will be a month-long data challenge, and you’ll have until April 4th to submit your entry. Your submission can be in any form you like – it can be a Quarto document, an image, a link to a webpage, or a link to a video, for example.

There are two options for submitting an entry:

• Option 1 (preferred option): If you have experience with GitHub and Quarto, you can create a pull request on this repository and add your submission to the “Submissions” part of this page
• Option 2: If you don’t have experience with GitHub, you can email [email protected] a link to your submission materials and we will add the link to our website.

After the submission deadline, R-Ladies Ottawa will host a virtual event where participants can showcase their work. This is a great way to learn from one another and to connect with other like-minded individuals!

The date and time of the showcase event will be announced soon.

2024 Posit Conference Watch Party with R-Ladies Ottawa

Posit, the company that makes many of the tools you know and love (RStudio, Shiny, the tidyverse, and many more!) hosts an annual conference. This year, the conference took place in Seattle from August 12th-14th. Did you miss the conference, but still want to know what’s new in the world of data science? Look no further – R-Ladies Ottawa is hosting a posit::conf(2024) Watch Party!

This event will take place on October 23rd, from 5:30-7:30pm, at the Ottawa Public Library (Sunnyside branch - Program room 1B). Attendance is FREE and there will be door prizes available to win (see details below)! We’ll watch a few of the most popular talks from this year’s conference and have opportunities to discuss and network. Afterwards, we’ll be heading to a restaurant in the Glebe for anyone who would like to join!

Please note that the mission of R-Ladies is to increase gender diversity in the R community. While our Meetup Group is open to anyone to join, our events are intended to provide a safe space for women and gender minorities. Male allies may attend our in-person events if they are invited by and accompanied by a woman or gender minority.

Door prize giveaway

By attending this event, you’ll have a chance to win a copy of David Keyes’ new book, R for the Rest of Us: A Statistics-Free Introduction, courtesy of NoStarch Press.

Description of the book: “Learn how to use R for everything from workload automation and creating online reports, to interpreting data, map making, and more.

Written by the founder of a very popular online training platform for the R programming language!

The R programming language is a remarkably powerful tool for data analysis and visualization, but its steep learning curve can be intimidating for some. If you just want to automate repetitive tasks or visualize your data, without the need for complex math, R for the Rest of Us is for you.”

Free stickers!

Posit has generously donated hex stickers for this event! Everyone who attends will be able to take some home.

Event schedule

5:30pm - 7:00pm - Watch party and discussion (see talk descriptions below!) 7:00pm - Networking and announcement of door prize winner 7:30pm - We’ll be heading to a restaurant in the Glebe, for anyone who would like to join!

The talks we’ll watch:

1. Introducing Positron (Julia Silge) and Exploratory Data Analysis in Python with Positron (Isabelle Zimmerman)

Positron is a next generation data science IDE that is newly available to the community for early beta testing. This new IDE is an extensible tool built to facilitate exploratory data analysis, reproducible authoring, and publishing data artifacts. Positron currently supports these data workflows in either or both Python and/or R, and is designed with a forward-looking architecture that can support other data science languages in the future. In this session, learn from the team building Positron about how and why it is designed the way it is, what will feel familiar or new coming from other IDEs, and whether it might be a good fit for your own work.

2. Closeread: bringing Scrollytelling to Quarto - Andrew Bray

Scrollytelling is a style of web design that transitions graphics and text as a user scrolls, allowing stories to progress naturally. Despite its power, scrollytelling typically requires specialist web dev skills beyond the reach of many data scientists. Closeread is a Quarto extension that makes a wide range of scrollytelling techniques available to authors without traditional web dev experience, with support for cross-fading plots, graphics and other chunk output alongside narrative content. You can zoom in on poems, prose and images, as well as highlighting important phrases of text. Finally, Closeread allows authors with experience in Observable JS to write their own animated graphics that update smoothly as scrolling progresses.

3. GitHub: How To Tell Your Professional Story - Abigail Haddad

GitHub is more than just a version control tool, it's a way of explaining your professional identity to prospective employers and collaborators – and you can build your profile now, before you're looking for new opportunities. This talk is about how to think of GitHub as an opportunity, not a chore, and how to represent yourself well without making developing your GitHub profile into a part-time job. I'll talk about why GitHub adds value beyond a personal website, what kinds of projects are helpful to share, and some good development practices to get in the habit of, regardless of your project specifics.

Nous sommes ravis d’organiser une #Watch #Party virtuelle pour la conférence organisée par Posit qui a eu lieu du 12 au 24 août 2024 à #Seattle 🔗 ​​https://posit.co/conference/.

🎉 Durant cette Watch Party, nous allons regarder les #replays de ces deux présentations sélectionnées de la conférence, le lundi 21 octobre 2024 à partir de 19h00 CEST :

1. Introducing Positron, a new data science IDE, présenté par Julia Silge, Engineering Manager et Tom Mock, Product Manager, Posit, PBC. “Positron is a next generation data science IDE that is newly available to the community for early beta testing. This new IDE is an extensible tool built to facilitate exploratory data analysis, reproducible authoring, and publishing data artifacts. Positron currently supports these data workflows in either or both Python and/or R, and is designed with a forward-looking architecture that can support other data science languages in the future. In this session, learn from the team building Positron about how and why it is designed the way it is, what will feel familiar or new coming from other IDEs, and whether it might be a good fit for your own work.”
2. Quarto, AI, and the Art of Getting Your Life Back, présenté par Tyler Morgan-Wall, Research Staff Member, Institute for Defense Analyses. “Tired of endless server issues and maintenance headaches? Want to reclaim your time for coding, writing, and creating? Join me as I share my journey of switching from the server-based headaches of Wordpress to Quarto, with a little help from AI. In this talk, I’ll describe the simple trick I used to convert an existing Wordpress blog—complete with custom scripts, styles, and beautiful 3D dataviz content—into a slick Quarto site. I'll then demonstrate some lesser-known features of Quarto to automate deploying a website entirely from a Quarto project file. Finally, I’ll show you how I used AI to customize and style my new Quarto site, and provide several useful strategies to employ if you decide to get some help from AI on your own Quarto journey.”

Chaima Boughanmi partagera également son expérience personnelle de la conférence ainsi que ses impressions. Après chaque présentation, une discussion ouverte sera organisée.

​​L'inscription est désormais ouverte via ce lien 🔗 https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIoduqqrjovHN2Y2jSZoS2uDxLGKMziwWUw.

N'hésitez pas à partager ce meetup avec toute personne qui pourrait être intéressée.

Ne manquez pas l'opportunité d'être parmi les premiers à accéder à des replays de très haute qualité.

On vous attend nombreux pour cette nouvelle Watch Party francophone ! ✨