Virtual Conference: noRth 2020
Are you an intermediate or advanced R user looking to connect with others in the R community, expand your skills, and spark inspiration for your next project?
Join us for noRth 2020, a conference for R users in the Twin Cities and greater north region.
Conference details
The conference will consist of two morning sessions of seminars, July 14 - 15, from 9:00am - 12:00pm.
Topics
- Scraping, iterating, purring
- Reproducible Machine Learning with tidymodels
- Being bilingual - coding in both R and python
- Probabilistic answers to data science questions: using Bayesian hierarchical modeling in analysis of public transit
- Automatic Machine Learning in R
- Styling shiny and rmarkdown with Sass and Bootstrap 4
- Deploying End-to-End Data Science Production Workflows in R
- Powerful Yet Simple Reactive Concepts in Shiny
- dplyr + data. table = dtplyr?
- R statistics: A social scientist’s journey
Registration details
noRth is committed to celebrating and enhancing the diversity of the R community. With this in mind, noRth will offer 10 full registration scholarships to individuals from underrepresented and historically marginalized groups in the R community. To apply, visit https://rnorthconference.github.io/# .
Regular pricing includes:
Public (non-UMN) Pricing Scale
$75 - Student/Postdoc/Not Employed
$125 - Academic Faculty/Staff, Government, or Nonprofit
$150 - General Admission (not in previous categories)
UMN Internal Pricing Scale
$50 - Paying with UMN dept. chartstring
$100 - General UMN Admission
Visit the noRth conference website for full information including schedules, speaker information, materials from last year's conference, and more!