Communities of Practice
Bertrand Book Club: The Opposite of Cheating
The Opposite of Cheating: Teaching for Integrity in the Age of AI by Tricia Bertram Gallant and David A. Rettinger offers a new perspective on academic integrity in the age of generative AI. Instead of focusing on how to prevent cheating, the book provides practical, empathetic, and research-backed strategies for faculty to support learning. It encourages a shift from policing academic integrity to fostering a positive learning environment and strengthening human interactions in education.
Fall 2025 Bertrand Book Club
Platform: Perusall for asynchronous reading and annotation at your own pace; three in-person meetings for discussion.
Access and Capacity: Perusall is kindly providing free access to 25 copies of the e-book, so the book club will be limited to the first 25 people to express interest.
Schedule: In-person discussions will include breakfast and group conversations.
- September 22nd (asynchronous kick-off)
- Friday, October 10th, 9:00 AM – 9:50 AM in Bertrand 339
- Friday, October 24th, 9:00 AM – 9:50 AM in Bertrand 339
- Friday, November 7th, 9:00 AM – 9:50 AM in Bertrand 339
Please note that this book club will be limited to the first 25 participants who respond.
Co-sponsored by Bertrand Library and the Dominguez Center for Data Science
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.
Fall 2025 Meetings
September 22nd, 4:30 – 5:30pm
Taylor Hall, 210
Scrollytelling with Closeread: Sara Stoudt will demo how to use Closeread, an extension of Quarto, to create scrollytelling documents. Students should consider participating in the Student Data Scrollytelling Contest! Dinner will be provided.
October 15th, 12:00 – 12:50pm
Taylor Hall, 212
Data in R: Come with your favorite R packages that integrate with data sources and let you import data directly into R! Lunch will be provided.
November 7th, 12:00 – 12:50pm
Taylor Hall, 210
Vignettes: Guest speaker, Chester Ismay, will discuss vignette-driven development, which he used while writing the infer package. Lunch will be provided.
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 Services
Past Communities of Practice
- Data Literacy (Spring 2025)