Communities of Practice
rugB
The R Users Group at Bucknell, rugB (pronounced “rugby”), brings together members of the Bucknell Community to discuss all things data and R-related. All (students, faculty, staff, alums) are welcome and no prior R experience is required! Sign up below to be invited to attend our monthly meetings and added to the rugB channel of the bucknell-data-science Slack Workspace.
Spring 2025 Meetings:
March 20th, 12:00 – 12:50pm
Taylor Hall, 210
LLMs and R: Keegan Kang is going to demo how to use an LLM to learn to do new things in R! Lunch will be provided.
February 11th, 4:30 – 6:00pm
Taylor Hall, 210
Code a Valentine in R: In honor of International Love Data Week, the February rugB meeting will coincide with the “Create a Valentine (with code)” event.
November 21st, 2024 from 4:30 – 5:20pm
Taylor Hall, 208
Demos on Engaging with Music and Text Data in R: Sara Stoudt will show us how to access and analyze music data and Todd Suomela will walk through exploring text data! Food will be provided.
October 23rd, 2024 from 12:00 – 12:50pm
Taylor Hall, 208
R Tutorials on git/GitHub and R Packages: Ken Field will introduce the group to the version control tool git and will show how to sync an RStudio Project with a GitHub Repository. Then, Kelly McConville will demo the process of creating an R package. Lunch will be provided.
September 25th, 2024 from 12:00 – 12:50pm
Traditional Reading Room, Bertrand Library
R Hacks: Participants will each spend a minute showcasing their favorite R tool or tip (e.g., function, keyboard shortcut, color palette, package, resource,…). Sharing a hack is optional. Lunch will be provided so make sure to fill out the sign-up form so that we order enough food.
Co-facilitators: Kelly McConville and Todd Suomela
Co-sponsored by the Digital Pedagogy & Scholarship Department of Library & Information Technology
Data Literacy
The Data Literacy Community of Practice is an open-ended discussion group to talk about all things data literacy. What are the foundations of understanding, communicating, and evaluating data? How do we learn these skills? How do we teach these skills? Why is data literacy important?
All (students, faculty, staff, alums) are welcome! Sign up below to be invited to attend our monthly meetings and added to the data literacy channel of the bucknell-data-science Slack Workspace.
Spring 2025 Meetings:
Thursday, February 13th at 9:00am, breakfast provided!
Topic: What is data literacy?
Friday, March 21st at 10:00am, breakfast provided!
Topic: How do we get started with a dataset? How do we work with both numeric and text data?
Tuesday, April 15th at 9:00am, breakfast provided!
Topic: Data ethics, data citizenship, open data
Facilitator: Claire Cahoon