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Interested in learning more about R? Then you鈥檝e got to check out R-Ladies Dublin. One of many tech meet-ups around the city, the group aims to make R loved and used by more people, especially women and those who identify as female. The meetup has been running since January 2017 and is the brainchild of Jo Nie膰 and some likeminded friends.

When we arrive, the event is already starting to fill up with friendly R enthusiasts who are busy catching up over the free pizza and beer. 鈥淭here were five or six of us that started it,鈥� Jo explains. 鈥淲e wanted to do a meet up every month and the idea was to organise hands-on workshops in R – for women mostly, but men are welcome too.鈥� The group is part of R-Ladies Global who have over 50 similar chapters all over the world.

In-Depth Learning

This evening鈥檚 event is being held in Tenable鈥檚 stunning offices in Dublin鈥檚 Docklands. After the pizza, guest speaker Cormac Nolan would be exploring the topic, 鈥楬ow to Write Packages in R鈥�. Jo explains: 鈥淧ackages are kind of libraries that you can install on your laptop and do really powerful analysis. So people build their packages and functions and this speeds things up a lot.鈥� It promised to be an in-depth presentation with lots of useful take-aways.

Dublin鈥檚 Tech Meetup Scene

Originally from Poland, Jo is impressed by the number of tech meetups happening in Dublin. 鈥淭here are so many meetups here that actually sometimes I find it difficult,鈥� she laughs. 鈥淚 could go a whole month and go almost every second day to a tech meetup. It鈥檚 really incredible.鈥� And she鈥檚 right: from Python to CSS there鈥檚 a tech meetup for pretty much every interest in Dublin.

Supportive of Women

The Irish tech meetup scene is also really supportive of women in tech. Jo notes: 鈥淭here are quite a few events for women-only, like , , and a couple of others that are highly specialised.鈥� There are so many women in tech groups in fact, that the groups will soon be combining forces for a special event. Jo explains: 鈥淭here is an idea that originated at Workday to organise a summit for all women meetups in the tech groups to network. That event will be happening on the 15^th of May.鈥�

Upcoming Event

If you鈥檙e interested in finding out more, the next R-Ladies meetup is happening on the 27^th of March in the Bank of 黑料网 at Grand Canal Dock and promises to be another hands-on session. 鈥淭hat event going to be on R Markdown which is part of R studio,鈥� Jo says. 鈥淚t helps you turn your analyses into one document like a lovely PDF or HTML you can put on the website, and it kind of makes it easy to report on your analysis and your findings.鈥�

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