{"id":1127,"date":"2019-12-12T12:00:09","date_gmt":"2019-12-12T01:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/mathssciencechampions\/?p=1127"},"modified":"2024-05-23T10:43:10","modified_gmt":"2024-05-23T00:43:10","slug":"ladies-who-r","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/stemmchampions\/blog\/2019\/12\/ladies-who-r\/","title":{"rendered":"Ladies who R"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 style=\"text-align: center\">By Jessica Lee<\/h4>\n<p>I love R. I\u2019m <em>that<\/em> person who is always talking about R and encouraging other people to try it.<\/p>\n<p>When I found out that a Sydney chapter of <a href=\"https:\/\/rladies.org\/\">R-Ladies<\/a>\u00a0was starting, I knew I had to join. R-Ladies is a global organisation whose mission is to \u201cachieve proportionate representation by encouraging, inspiring, and empowering people of genders currently underrepresented in the R community\u201d. Given that programming, maths, and science are still seen as male-dominated fields, initiatives such as R-Ladies are invaluable for promoting gender diversity.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/rladiessydney.org\/\">R-Ladies Sydney<\/a>\u00a0was founded by <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JenRichmondPhD\">Jenny Richmond<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/williamslisaphd\">Lisa Williams<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/djnavarro\">Danielle Navarro<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/StephStammel\">Steph Stammel<\/a>. Jenny, Lisa, and Danielle are Associate Professors working at the School of Psychology at UNSW Sydney, and Steph is a management consultant. I asked Jenny and Lisa what inspired them to start on their R journey.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1132 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/mathssciencechampions\/files\/2019\/12\/r-ladies-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"695\" height=\"463\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>What made you want to learn R?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Jenny: <\/strong>My PhD student had a complex dataset from an electromyography (EMG) experiment. It was a multifactorial design with missing data. I knew I had to use linear mixed models to analyse the data, but this is hard to do in SPSS. Everyone I spoke to said I had to use R. So I originally learned R in order to use linear mixed models. I then found out that R was a good solution to other data problems I was having. Most of the time I spend in R is not doing statistics, it\u2019s doing data cleaning and getting data from its raw form to the point of being analysable.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Lisa:<\/strong> There\u2019s always a point in any data-related career where the answer to a technical \u201chow do I do X\u201d question is \u201cin R!\u201d For me, that\u2019s popped up in the context of multilevel models, text analysis, and power analysis\/sample size determination, among others. More broadly, learning R opens up my capability as a research advisor to train my students in a more flexible, and free, platform that\u2019s of use to them no matter where their careers take them.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>What made you want to start R-Ladies Sydney?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Jenny: <\/strong>I wanted to learn R and was stalking the \u201crstats\u201d hastag on Twitter. I got the impression that lots of people were finding the R-Ladies chapters in their city very useful. I basically wanted to create a learning community for myself. Other people who were thinking of starting R-Ladies were in the middle of their PhD. I thought, I\u2019ll just do it myself!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Lisa: <\/strong>A clear appetite for an inclusive community to learn R was emerging. I remember exchanging emails with co-founders Jenny Richmond and Danielle Navarro where the idea of founding an R-Ladies Sydney chapter came up \u2013 just as soon as it came up, it was decided. The R-Ladies vision to build a more gender-equitable community of practice for R is deeply resonant with many of my other activities in the broader science community. I feel fortunate to be a part of creating a space in which folks in Sydney \u2013 and indeed around the world \u2013 can gain the skills and confidence they need, all the while participating in a supportive and genuinely positive network.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>What do you like most about R?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Jenny: <\/strong>The power of visualisation. Before R, I generally didn\u2019t plot data until I had \u201caveraged the hell out of it\u201d and got rid of all the variability. Using packages like <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/eclarke\/ggbeeswarm\">ggbeeswarm<\/a>, I can easily visualise data on an individual level. This is really helpful for finding errors in your data, or checking whether your effects are driven by outliers. The other thing I like is that R makes your analysis process reproducible. RMarkdown allows you to embed code, detailed notes to yourself and output in a reproducible document that you can share with others. It\u2019s very powerful.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Lisa: <\/strong>It\u2019s free! There\u2019s a package for just about anything! The reward of successfully coding something is unbeatable! Also, the broader community is amazing. R users on Twitter are more than happy to dedicate their own time to help sort out a problem. The R-Ladies community is even more inclusive.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>What resources would you recommend to a beginner?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Jenny: <\/strong>I recommend that as a beginner, try and find resources written by beginners. When you\u2019re a beginner, you don\u2019t yet suffer from the curse of knowledge and you remember what stumbling blocks you came across. Documentation and vignettes from R packages often have a lot of assumed knowledge that makes it hard to understand for a beginner. We have a series of online modules called <a href=\"https:\/\/rladiessydney.org\/courses\/ryouwithme\/\">RYouWithMe<\/a> that go through the basics of getting started with R.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Lisa: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/education.rstudio.com\/learn\/beginner\/\">RStudio<\/a> has just collated an excellent set of beginner resources in one place. This features our own R-Ladies Sydney #RYouWithMe series, which is a great starting point for learning R, in my humble opinion!<\/p>\n<p>Andy Field has recently launched \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/milton-the-cat.rocks\/learnr\/r\/r_getting_started\/\">Getting Started in R and Rstudio<\/a>\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>And then \u2013 Google and Twitter! Chances are, someone else has come across the same error you\u2019re trying to work through!<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1128\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1128\" style=\"width: 506px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1128\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/mathssciencechampions\/files\/2019\/12\/r_first_then-934x1024.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"506\" height=\"780\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1128\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image credit https:\/\/github.com\/allisonhorst\/stats-illustrations<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Having been to a few events, I can attest to the welcoming, supportive environment engendered by the R-Ladies community. It is inspiring to meet such talented people from varied backgrounds and skill levels, all using R in interesting ways. There are currently 689 members (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.meetup.com\/en-AU\/rladies-sydney\/\">join here<\/a>!). 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