We’re restarting Rhus

Hi! I’m Stefan and I want to restart the Rhus useR group.

For this to happen, I am looking people who want to participate and show their work with R at monthly meetings, as well as users who can participate in a venue site (e.g. somebody at Aarhus University).

What are the Rhus meetings?

The aim of the meetings is for bringing together scientists, statisticians, programmers and industry users of R from Aarhus, Denmark and nearby areas, to discuss and present R-related matters.

The meetings will be of 1-1½ hours duration, with 1-2 participants presenting interesting uses of R, or new trends in R. Some examples of contents we are looking for:

• show casing own work in R and Shiny, with focus on how they overcame technical obstacles in R,
• innovative ways of data visualisation or presenting data to users, with e.g. Shiny,
• getting non-data people to use data,
• summarising new trends in tidyverse or a specific field of theirs,
• demonstrate a new package (preferable own) with a live-coding session,
• or uses of R outside of academia.

Will there be introductory courses?

I am setting up collaborations with the Aarhus University Open Coders (group changes is underway), who will be running data science and R introductory courses (see Resources). The Rhus useR group will for now focus on users who are past the basic level, and are looking for inspiration for new uses and potential collaborators.

Are there other user groups for R?

The idea of this group is formed after EdinbR with monthly meetings, were various interested would present their tools, workflows, or other interesting uses of R, ranging from beginner’s level to advanced stuff. Presenters could be locals or invited guests, such as David Robinson with tidytext. And meetings were always followed by time to chat.

If you are looking for useR groups in other locations, there is the CopenhagenR useR group and AalborgRUG in Denmark.
Otherwise look at jumping rivers’ list of R User groups.

Wait, doesn’t Rhus useR group already exist?

Yes. You can find it on meetup, but it has been pretty stale for 3-4 years.

Can we succeed in rebooting it? It will require your help.

While you are here…

View our Resources pages.

Do you have anything to add? Get in contact via Twitter: Follow @iysik_com or do a pull request from https://github.com/stefanedwards/studyGroup.