This Thursday (Nov 12th 7:00pm UTC) at Why R? Webinars we will have Jędrzej Świeżewski PhD and Damian Budelewski from Appsilon with 2 talks Preserving wildlife with computer vision AND Scaling Shiny Dashboards on a Budget. The link to the webinar, bio... [Read more...]

Last week at Why R? Webinars we had Marcin Kosinski who presented a short workshop about R on AWS. The biogram and the link to YouTube and GitHub materials are below. GitHub materials https://github.com/MarcinKosinski/RonAWS webinars http://whyr... [Read more...]

A month ago we finished Why R? 2020 conference. We had an pleasure to host Małgorzata Bogdan, an associate professor of statistics at University of Wrocław. This post contains a biography of the speaker and an abstract of her talk: Recent developments... [Read more...]

A month ago we finished Why R? 2020 conference. We had an pleasure to host Frank Harrell, a professor and a founding chair of the Department of Biostatistics at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine.. This post contains a biography of the speaker a... [Read more...]

Why R? Webinars are back after successful launch of Why R? 2020 Conference! All videos from the past series and from the recently finished conference can be watched on our youtube.com/WhyRFoundation channel. See this post to find out about upcoming we... [Read more...]

A month ago we finished Why R? 2020 conference. We had an pleasure to host Roger Bivand, a professor at Norwegian School of Economics and Member of R Foundation. This post contains a biography of the speaker and an abstract of his talk: Applied Spati... [Read more...]

This Thursday we have Kyla McConnell and Julia Muller from Freiburg R-Ladies with a talk: How to start your own #rstats group: Building an inclusive and fun R community. 8pm UTC+1 on youtube.com/WhyRFoundation Potentially valuable for every R Group Or... [Read more...]

Few weeks ago we finished Why R? 2020 conference. We had an honour to host Riinu Pius, a data scientist at the Centre for Medical Informatics, The University of Edinburgh. This post contains a biography of the speaker and an abstract of her talk: R f... [Read more...]

This decided to give you one more week to submit a talk or a workshop to Call for Papers for 2020.whyr.pl remote conference. Please fill this form 2020.whyr.pl/submit/ if you are interested in an active participation. The new deadline for submissi... [Read more...]

This week we are closing the Call for Papers for 2020.whyr.pl remote conferenceIf you would like to give a talk (that will be available on our YouTube channel) please fill this form 2020.whyr.pl/submit/ The deadline for submissions is 2020-07-31 23... [Read more...]

Three editions of Why R? conferences were a great networking success. During each edition, we gathered around 250-300 R enthusiasts from Europe and we managed to carry out more than 100 presentations and 35 workshops over 3 years. Desire for a bigger ... [Read more...]

Three editions of Why R? conferences were a great networking success. During each edition, we gathered around 250-300 R enthusiasts from Europe and we managed to carry out more than 35 workshops. Desire for a bigger event led us to the 4th edition! ... [Read more...]

Why R? pre-meetings are R meetups that support local R communities. Their main goal is to promote Why R? 2020 Conference that will be held between 27-30 August in Warsaw (Poland, Europe). Another purpose of those meetings is to provide space for the ... [Read more...]

Why R? conferences have been the hallmark of the Why R? Foundation (whyr.pl). Our goal has been to establish a series of international R-related events in Poland. After three years, we are happy to announce that our main event, the Why R? conference, ... [Read more...]

Why R? pre-meetings are R meetups that support local R communities. Their main goal is to promote Why R? 2019 Conference. Another purpose of those meetings is to provide space for the professional networking and knowledge exchange for practitioners a... [Read more...]

A month ago we closed Call for Papers for Why R? 2019 Conference. Today we are pleased to announce the conference agenda! From over 75 submissions (from 4 continents) we have finally selected 46 presentations (divided into 12 sessions), 15 lightning ... [Read more...]

Why R? conference is one of the best opportunities to learn secrets of data science from the renowned experts. This year we are happy to invite you for six keynote presentations, one invited workshop and eight regular workshops. About Why R? 2019 con... [Read more...]

Two editions of Why R? conferences were a great networking success. During each edition, we gathered around 200-300 R enthusiasts from Europe and we managed to carry out more than 25 workshops. Desire for a bigger event led us to the 3rd edition! ... [Read more...]