When the struggle in Ukraine began final yr, Dariia Mykhailyshyna, a Ukrainian pursuing her PhD in Italy, was on the lookout for methods “to be helpful.” She joined with different Ukrainians overseas to get data out and assist humanitarian support efforts.
Then Mykhailyshyna hit on the concept of educating workshops on R to lift funds. She contemplated asking a number of buddies in the event that they’d educate a workshop as nicely. “I wasn’t fascinated by a long-term sequence,” she mentioned. “I used to be fascinated by possibly a few workshops. However then it type of labored out.”
Forty periods and over a thousand attendees later, Workshops for Ukraine has raised about $28,000 for organizations supporting humanitarian and protection efforts in Ukraine. Round 20 consultants have volunteered to show. Whereas the sequence began with R, the matters have expanded to incorporate Python, SQL, Stata, and the Quarto technical publishing platform.
Coming this Thursday at midday EST/9am PST/6 pm CET: Working with ChatGPT in R.
Registration requires a minimal donation of $20, €20, or 800 UAH. Persons are welcome to donate extra, after all, and so they can select to donate to sponsor a pupil. Mykhailyshyna doesn’t take registration charges instantly. As an alternative, attendees are requested to donate to one of many authorized Ukranian assist organizations and ship in proof of their donations.
The entire workshops are two-hour stay periods on-line. They’re recorded, so attendees can re-watch movies later. Individuals who missed a previous workshop or who need to attend a future class however have a scheduling battle can register for entry to workshop recording and supplies. Workshop schedule and sign-up data are at https://websites.google.com/view/dariia-mykhailyshyna/most important/r-workshops-for-ukraine.
Design marketing consultant Cédric Scherer just lately taught a workshop on Shade Palette Alternative and Customization in R and ggplot2 and mentioned the expertise “was general nice, from the organizational perspective but additionally from how the workshop was perceived.”
When Russia invaded Ukraine final yr, Scherer mentioned, he had contemplated working some kind of class of his personal to lift cash to assist Ukraine. “Like many others, I felt helpless” because the struggle unfolded, he informed me by e mail. “When Dariia reached out to me, this was precisely the chance I had hoped for.”
Mykhailyshyna mentioned standard matters have included introductions to R, Python for R customers, Bayesian modeling, and Scherer’s colours in ggplot2. She’s already scheduled one other ggplot2 session, “Dataviz with R and ggplot: Utilizing shade and annotations for efficient story telling,” to be taught by knowledge marketing consultant Cara Thompson subsequent month.
“Having run an identical workshop for folk utilizing R throughout the NHS [the UK’s National Health Service] a number of months in the past, I already had some tried and examined supplies that I may construct on, so when Dariia approached me about this it was a straightforward ‘Sure’,” Thompson informed me in an e mail. “I genuinely take pleasure in equipping others to make higher knowledge visualizations, so this appeared like a superb alternative to do this whereas contributing to a fantastic trigger.”
Different upcoming matters embrace survival evaluation in Python and R and dealing with picture knowledge in R. Anybody taken with educating a workshop can contact Mykhailyshyna at dariia.mykhailyshyn2@unibo.it.
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