By Julia Silge
Just kidding; it was amazing.
Last week, I traveled to San Francisco to participate in an unconference/hackathon organized and hosted by ROpenSci. This was my first R conference or meeting, and it was a such a great experience. I am still feeling a bit at a loss for words about what a tremendous time I had, actually, but I will make an attempt to share a bit about what it was like and what we did.
The peaceful key-clicking of productivity has engulfed the @rOpenSci team. #runconf16 pic.twitter.com/IW5ZeR7htC
— Sean Kross (@seankross) April 1, 2016
The unconference was a two-day event where participants worked on R packages, tutorials, and other projects oriented toward open data, data visualization, and open science using R. The participants are at various places in their careers, from being grad students to being very very very famous, and work in academia, industry, the non-profit world, and so forth. I am on the less experienced end of the spectrum (in fact, I’m sure I had the least R experience of anyone there this year!) and it was quite a learning opportunity to interact and collaborate with such knowledgeable, talented people.
We should write R package that does this! Oh wait, it’s on CRAN. Oh, and Github, 32★s. Oh, and the guy that wrote it is behind us #runconf16
— Vince Buffalo (@vsbuffalo) March 31, 2016
I worked on an R package with David Robinson for text mining using tidy data principles. We are going to clean some parts of it up a bit and get it ready for wider consumption ASAP, but we got so much done at the unconference. Working on it in this type of environment was so beneficial. For example, neither David nor I have a formal background in natural language …read more
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