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BlackLivesMatter: A joint statement by Forwards and R-Ladies

community
news

#BlackLivesMatter: A joint statement by Forwards and R-Ladies
Jun 6, 2020

Southern Africa Project 2020

community
education
software

Review of the R training and community events organized as part of the Forwards Southern Africa Project 2020, in South Africa, Eswatini and Botswana.
May 25, 2020
Heather Turner

Recap of R-Ladies Charlottesville Forwards Workshop

education
software
community

Lessons from R-Ladies Charlottesville Forwards Workshop
Nov 22, 2019
Angela Li, Samantha Toet

The state of R in Africa

news
community

2019 Round-up of initiatives in the R community across Africa.
Nov 15, 2019
Lorna Maria

Workshops for Women and Girls

education
software
community

Round up of Forwards workshops supported by a grant from the R Consortium, to develop R package development skills among women and R coding skills among high school girls.
Sep 22, 2019
Forwards Teaching Team

HavanaR Workshop 2018

news
community
education

Announcement of joint >eR-Biostat and Forwards workshop in Havana, on visualisation methods and exploratory analysis of high dimensional and multivariate datasets in R.
Jul 7, 2018
Ziv Shkedy, Julie Josse

R in Latin America

news
community

Round-up of initiatives in the R community across Latin America.
Feb 5, 2018
Ariel Levy, Fernando Mayer, Juan Pablo Marín Díaz, Riva Quiroga, Marcela Alfaro, Alejandro Reyes, Heather Turner

R in Africa

news
community

Round-up of initiatives in the R community across Africa.
Dec 1, 2017
Andrew Collier, Anelda van der Walt, Ziv Shkedy, Theoni Photopoulou, Margareth Gfrerer, Heather Turner

Girls Coding Workshop, Melbourne

education
software
community
training
teaching

Girls Coding Workshop, Melbourne
Nov 20, 2017
Di Cook

useRs Participation in the R Community

analysis
useR!
survey
community

Community Involvement of useRs
Jun 19, 2017
Stella Bollmann, Dianne Cook, Rudolf Debelak, Jasmine Dumas, John Fox, Julie Josse, Oliver Keyes, Carolin Strobl, Heather Turner”

useRs Relationship with R

analysis
useR!
survey
programming

Report on programming section of useR! 2016 survey
Mar 11, 2017
Stella Bollmann, Dianne Cook, Rudolf Debelak, Jasmine Dumas, John Fox, Julie Josse, Oliver Keyes, Carolin Strobl, Heather Turner

Emily Robinson, from Social Scientist to Data Scientist

interviews
data science
careers
Maëlle Salmon, a Forwards collaborator, got the chance to interview Emily Robinson, who recently became a data analyst at Etsy. A very inspiring R-Lady!
Feb 7, 2017
Maëlle Salmon

Call to Join Forwards

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action

Inviting New Members to join Forwards
Jan 13, 2017

Mapping useRs

Report on demographics section of useR! 2016 survey
Jan 13, 2017
Stella Bollmann, Dianne Cook, Rudolf Debelak, Jasmine Dumas, John Fox, Julie Josse, Oliver Keyes, Carolin Strobl, Heather Turner
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