I hope everything is going well! I just finished training to be certified as a Software Carpentries Curriculum Developer- my experience from the Digital Fellows was ringing in my e…[Read more]

Sorry for the late reply! Here is a link to join:

https://join.slack.com/t/cuny-rug/shared_invite/zt-r9xaadnp-7a3epLmXEYSOHt8vZ2s2Ww

Best,

Connor

Sorry for the late reply! Here is a link for you to join.

https://join.slack.com/t/cuny-rug/shared_invite/zt-r9xaadnp-7a3epLmXEYSOHt8vZ2s2Ww

Best,

Connor

I don’t know about y’all, but I need a break this summer. RUG is going to take a break as well and will resume in the fall. I thought I had one more meeting in me, but some last-minute lab problems have made it too difficult to host a last meeting. In light of everything, this year has been a fun one with y’all! I truly appreciate…[Read more]

Yet again, RUG has snuck up on me. It’s that kind of year. Today (1 pm-2:30 pm) we’re trucking along with the text analysis theme, and doing some data visualization! We’re going to learn how to make a word cloud, then if we have time we’ll explore some other ways to visualize your text data. I only have a small amount of experience…[Read more]

Wow, Friday really snuck up on me! Today we’re continuing down the text analysis road. We’re going to learn how to wrangle unstructured text into something you can analyze! We’ll be diving into the stringr package for string manipulation and use some other tidyverse package wizardry to get a tidy data set! If we have time, we can go…[Read more]

I hope everyone has had a restful spring break! I’m stoked to jump back on the text analysis bandwagon this week. We’re going to take the text we scraped off the web last meeting and learn how to format it into a tidy data frame. For those who didn’t attend my workshop in March, we’re pretty much doing that! If you weren’t able to…[Read more]

It turns out that our next scheduled RUG meeting falls during spring break! I’m taking full advantage of the break, so no RUG next Friday. Instead, let’s meet the next Friday, 04/09. I’ll send out another email that week with more details!

Also, for those RUG members who couldn’t make it to my Intro to Text Analysis in R workshop,…[Read more]

RUG is back on! This week we’re starting a series on web scraping and text analysis in R. This week’s theme will be web scraping, where we  will learn the basics of the rvest package (similar to Beautiful Soup for python). In addition, Yuxiao is leading a workshop on predictive modeling in R right after the workshop on Friday, so we…[Read more]

I hope everyone is doing well! The semester is fully underway and I know I’m excited to meet again to talk about R. The schedule for this semester is the same as last semester, with meetings from 1pm to 2:30pm every other Friday. See the GCDI events calendar for all of our scheduled meetings. One fun change this year is that the Pytho…[Read more]

RUG is back for the semester! This Friday (2/19) from 1pm-2:30pm EST, we’re having a special meeting for GC Digital Research Institute participants, R beginners, and those who are interested in R, but haven’t used it before. Yuxiao and Connor will be here to give an overview of what RUG is, answer any questions DRI participants may…[Read more]

As you transition back to your semesterly schedule, let us remind and update you about all the ways […]

First, details: Friday, Dec. 4, 1-2:30 PM. The Zoom link is below my signature.

We’re entering the final stretch of the semester, and I for one am ready for a break. We’re going to keep things light for the last few RUG meetings of the semester. The priority will be for y’all to bring anything you want to discuss or troubleshoot to…[Read more]

First, meeting details: Today, Nov 20th, 1 PM to 2:30 PM. Zoom link at the bottom.

Today, we’re going to explore spatial patterns in COVID data! I know I promised election data, but unfortunately since all of the voting results still aren’t official, the data isn’t available for free. This should still be fun!

Today’s meeting style…[Read more]

A few other people have had a similar problem for some reason. Here’s a link!

https://join.slack.com/t/cuny-rug/shared_invite/zt-iqvcee5j-c7uLrBp8IxRlm5mvyq0OTw

Best,

Connor

Given the election craziness, I’m sure everyone is exhausted and screen-tired. I know I am. In lieu of a Zoom meeting, I’m going to hang out on the RUG  Slack today from 1-2:30 pm. I’ll take anyone’s R questions and will be available to hop on Zoom for any discussion that’s easier over video. Just send me a message and I’ll send you…[Read more]

RUG is happening tomorrow from 1 pm to 2:30 pm! We’re going to do a bit of interactive mapping using a tutorial I made a while back:

https://connor-french.com/post/leaflet-tutorial/

In addition, I’ll field questions about mapping, GIS in R, and the tutorial I sent out two weeks ago. Looking forward to seeing…[Read more]

Unfortunately, I (Connor) woke up very sick and it hasn’t gone away. I don’t think I’ll be able to lead RUG today, but I will leave the materials I was going to cover here and I’ll leave the Zoom space up for people to talk and discuss together.

Today I was going to cover part 2 of this tutorial on mapping: Creating beautiful…[Read more]

Just sent you a personal message with the link!

Best,

Connor

Here is a screen recording of the Introduction to R and RStudio workshop held on 9/24/2020 for those interested. We’re currently working on closed captioning, so I will update this link once that is finished!

https://vimeo.com/463469574

You can view the slides here and obtain the code here.

Best,

Connor

RUG is back! For those who have been to the last couple of meetings, we are sticking with the GIS/mapping theme. To accommodate folks new to the group, we’re going to backtrack a little and:

1. Learn what vector and raster data are
2. Learn how to read in these data
3. Make a simple map

If you would like to get a head start, we will be…[Read more]

We’re meeting today to begin a series on spatial data processing in R! Last meeting we did a quick intro to plotting to get folks’ feet wet. This week we’re going to start working through the [Geocomputation with R](https://geocompr.robinlovelace.net/index.html) free online book. This meeting will get folks familiar with simple…[Read more]

We’re going to keep the Friday 2-3:30 meeting schedule. It seems to work best.

Today we’re moving on from modeling and moving towards working with spatial data- mapping, GIS operations, spatial modeling, etc. For this first meeting, I’m going to walk through making a couple maps, where I’ll introduce the sf and stars packages for working…[Read more]

Due to scheduling conflicts, we’re meeting Friday from 2 pm to 3:30 pm. We’re considering keeping this time, so let us know if it doesn’t work for you!

We’re wrapping up our modeling discussion this week! The tidymodels package ecosystem is a promising framework for statistical modeling and machine learning in R. Previously, we went…[Read more]

Apologies for the quick 180, but we’re cancelling the RUG meeting today in recognition of the Juneteenth holiday. See y’all in two weeks!

Best,

Connor and Di

We’re meeting Friday from 12:30 pm to 2 pm.

We’re wrapping up our modeling discussion this week! The tidymodels package ecosystem is a promising framework for statistical modeling and machine learning in R. Previously, we went over Step 1: Build a Model, Step 2: Preprocess your data with recipes, and Step 3: Evaluate your model with r…[Read more]

We’re meeting Friday from 12:30 pm to 2 pm.

We’re talking about modeling again this week! The tidymodels package ecosystem is a promising framework for statistical modeling and machine learning in R. Previously, we went over Step 1: Build a Model and Step 2: Preprocess your data with recipes on the tidymodels website. This week we’r…[Read more]

Sorry for the late notice again- this always sneaks up on me. We’re meeting today from 12:30 pm to 2 pm.

We’re talking about modeling again this week! The tidymodels package ecosystem is a promising framework for statistical modeling and machine learning in R. Last week we went over Step 1: Build a Model on the tidymodels website, so…[Read more]

We’re meeting again this Friday from 12:30-2 pm! The topic of this week’s meeting is modeling. The tidymodels package ecosystem is a promising framework for statistical modeling and machine learning in R. We encourage folks to go over Step 1: Build a Model on the tidymodels website before the meeting and come in with questions! See…[Read more]

The R User Group (RUG) created a Slack channel! Our aim is to make discussion about technical topics and short communications more accessible among our members in between RUG meetings. This will be a space for members to get help with R problems (errors, understanding output, how to do a task, etc.) and discuss R-adjacent topics…[Read more]

I hope everyone is keeping their heads above water in this chaotic environment. We’re looking forward to seeing everyone! Now that we have a fair number of responses, we’ve settled on a day and time for RUG meetings: Every other Friday from 12:30 to 2:00 PM, starting this Friday, April 22. For our first meeting, we’re going to keep i…[Read more]

Dear Colleagues,

As the university transitions to remote instruction, research, and work, GC Digital Initiatives staff is available for consultations on a wide range of topics related to technology. We invite GC faculty, students, and staff to…[Read more]

Our second meeting is this afternoon from 3:30 to 5 pm in the Digital Scholarship Lab, room 7414. Please bring your laptop, questions, and enthusiasm! We’re continuing our work through the Data Visualization chapter of Hadley Wickham’s R for Data Science. If you have ideas for future topics, don’t hesitate to suggest them. Looking…[Read more]

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Date: February 12, 2020 12:00 pm EST