About

rainbowR is a community that connects, supports and promotes LGBTQ+ folks who code in R, and raises awareness of LGBTQ+ issues through data-driven activism. Our inaugural virtual conference will bring together LGBTQIA+ users of R, and their allies, to promote their work and foster connections amongst the community. The conference is for anyone interested in R and/or analysing data to understand LGBTQ+ issues. You do not have to be LGBTQ+ to attend.

The conference is free to attend. We welcome donations/solidarity payments to support the running of the community.

We have an excellent lineup of LGBTQIA+ speakers across keynotes, regular talks and lightning talks, who will showcase the immense diversity of R users as well as the vast possibilities of what you can do in R. In addition to the talks, we are running four workshops led by experts.

We're also holding two virtual socials where conference participants can meet other R users to connect, share experiences, and unwind. Plus we're running a special conference edition of the rainbowR buddies scheme.

See the conference website for full details.

Schedule (times in UTC)

Wednesday February 25th

16:00-18:00:00: Workshop (Session A), Introduction to R, Allissa Dillman, Padmashri Saravanan
16:00-18:00:00: Workshop (Session A), If you can write a function, you can build an R package, Rhian Davies
18:05-18:55: Quiz and social, Damie Pak, Libby Heeren
19:00-21:00:00: Workshop (Session B), LLMs in R for data analysis, Nic Crane
19:00-91:00:00: Workshop (Session B), Visualising the UK's LGBTQ+ population, Kirstie Ken English, Nicola Rennie

Thursday February 26th

16:00-16:15: Welcome and introduction, Ella Kaye
16:15-17:00: Keynote: Studying queer data while living it: Positionality, power and practice, Daphna Harel
17:00-18:00: Regular talks:

• Intersectionality in LGBTQ+ health research: Practical analysis in R using upset plots, Chris Battiston
• High, Low, Jack, & Claude: AI-assisted Shiny development, Jasmine Daly
• Queer stories through data: Lighting LGBTQ+ cinema with R and Shiny, Njoki Njuki, Tamires Martins

18:00-18:30: Birds of a feather social
18:30-19:15: Lightning talks:

• Beyond drag bingo: Building community at work, Kristin Bott
• Teaching pharmacokinetics with confidence: How R helps students “see” the ccience, Rafael Henry-Venson
• Factor or network? Modeling the complexity of gender minority stress in transgender communities, Noah Pevie
• Elevating open data: Creating 3D visuals with NYC open climate data, Ursula Kaczmarek
• Seeing what's missing: visualization of incomplete and imputed data, Hanne Oberman
• The two step method: Accurate record keeping for sex and gender, Trystan Washburne
• pointblank, was I expecting this?, Hannah Frick

19:15-20:15: Regular talks:

• Belonging is political: Measuring queer sense of belonging in Higher Ed using R, J. Audra Williams
• Migrating legacy code to R: A team-based approach to open-source adoption, Joshua Gutoskie
• The cheesecake ROI: Building a marketing mix model with tidymodels and The Golden Girls, Ryan Timpe

20:15-20:30: Break
20:30-21:15: Keynote, What's new with LLMs for data science, Hadley Wickham
21:15-21:30: Closing, Ella Kaye

Where

The conference is taking place entirely online, over Zoom Events. Ticket-holders will be sent personalised Zoom links prior to the conference. When completing check-out here, please register with the email address that you wish to use with Zoom.

You will not receive a ticket with your registration. Instead, we will use the email address provided to send you invitations to the Zoom event, with details on how to join the conference, closer to the date.

When

Please note that the 'Add to Calendar' link below produces an invitation for the entire span between the conference start and end time, so we recommend not clicking on that. Instead, when you receive a confirmation email for your order, it will come with separate .ics calendar invitations for each event you register for, i.e. the full 5.5 hours on Feb 26th, the fifty minute social on Feb 25th, and any workshops you select.