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 2026 Meetings
February 10th, 4:30 – 5:30pm
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.
March 2026
TBD
April 2026
TBD
September 22nd, 2025 – Scrollytelling with Closeread with Sara Stoudt
October 15th, 2025 – Data in R
November 7th, 2025 – Vignettes with Guest speaker, Chester Ismay
April 17th, 2025 – Interfaces, IDEs, and environments that you can use with R
March 20th, 2025 – LLMs and R with Keegan Kang
February 11th, 2025 – Code a Valentine in R
November 21st, 2024 – Demos on Engaging with Music and Text Data in R with Sara Stoudt and Todd Suomela
October 23rd, 2024 – R Tutorials on git/GitHub and R Packages with Ken Field
September 25th, 2024 – R Hacks
Co-facilitators: Kelly McConville and Abby Flynt
Co-sponsored by the Department of Mathematics and Statistics
Past Communities of Practice
- Bertrand Book Club: The Opposite of Cheating (Fall 2025)
- Data Literacy (Spring 2025)