posit::conf(2023) Workshop: What They Forgot to Teach You About R
Register now: http://pos.it/conf Instructors: Shannon Pileggi and David Aja Workshop Duration: 1-Day Workshop This course is for you if you answer yes to these questions: • Have you been using R for a while and feel there might be better ways to organize your R life, but don’t know what they are? • Do you want to put programming on pause and learn about actionable programming-adjacent workflows for streamlining analysis in R? • Are you willing to feel a bit of (git) pain to leverage the benefits of version control for collaboration and time travel? This 1-day What They Forgot (WTF) To Teach You About R workshop is for experienced R and RStudio users who want to (re)design their R lifestyle via project-oriented workflows and version control for data science (Git/GitHub). At the conclusion of the workshop, you will have strategies for organizing data science projects and workflows, employing robust file paths, constructing human and machine-readable file names, and facilitating collaboration with yourself or others via version control
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Hi, my name is Shannon Pileggi, and here are three reasons why you should take the What They Forgot to Teach You About R project-oriented workflows with Git and GitHub workshop.
Number one, I'm really excited to co-lead this workshop with David for the second year in a row. David is a solutions engineer at Posit, and I'm a lead data scientist with the Prostate Cancer Clinical Trials Consortium. David and I work really well together, and we learn from each other. Our diverse perspectives really benefit the participants in this course.
Number two, the spirit of the What They Forgot to Teach You About R workshop are strategies to improve the quality of your R life via project workflows and version control with Git and GitHub. These are paradigms that you can benefit from no matter what stage you are in in your career.
Lastly, the What They Forgot to Teach You About R content is solid. This workshop has actually been instructed since 2018, so the course content has a really strong foundation that's assessed every year to be updated for new developments. So I really hope you can join us at Posit Conf.
David's perspective
Hi, I'm David Aja. I'm a solutions engineer at Posit. Sometimes I describe that as a role focused on helping data scientists get their ideas into production. But in practice, what that means is that a lot of the time I'm focused on the parts of working with R that aren't about writing R code, but more about what it looks like to manage it, to share it, and to help it answer questions for lots of different user groups.
So the reason I think you should take What They Forgot to Teach You About R is because I think it helps, it's an opportunity to help you learn some of the software engineering fundamentals that aren't really going to come up in other kinds of R-focused programming classes. I know that when I started learning R programming, I was very much focused on how do I extract the data from this HTML table, and not as focused on questions like what is it going to look like to work on this project again in another year, or what's it going to look like to collaborate with this project with someone else. And I think that What They Forgot is an excellent venue for learning that kind of thing, so I hope to see you there.
fundamentals that aren't really going to come up in other kinds of R-focused programming classes.
