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:
April 17th, 12:00 – 12:50pm
Taylor Hall, 210
Please join us for lunch and a discussion / demonstration of some of the different interfaces, IDEs, and environments that you can use with R; including stuff such as RStudio, Positron, Exploratory, Jupyter Notebooks, Posit Cloud, etc. There are many different ways to interact with R so come by to share your own favorites or maybe learn about a new one.
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
Past Communities of Practice
- Data Literacy (Spring 2025)