Talks and Presentations

A talk introducing the caret package, its basic uses, and a simple machine learning example using the palmerpenguins dataset. Given at the WSU R Working Group, Pullman, WA in 2022. Link to blog post here.

Instructional talk covering basic examples of using regular expressions in R to improve the efficiency of data cleaning and metadata extraction tasks. Given at the WSU R Working Group, Pullman, WA in 2021.

Instructional talk covering the basics of writing functions in R and creating drake projects for documenting data analysis workflows. Attendees worked with an example dataset and participated in live coding activities to build a drake project from scratch.

Instructional talk on basics of manipulating and plotting spatial data in R using sf and ggplot2. Given at the WSU R Working Group, Pullman, WA in 2021. Link to blog post here.

Instructional talk covering the basics of writing functions in R and creating drake projects for documenting data analysis workflows. Attendees worked with an example dataset and participated in live coding activities to build a drake project from scratch.

Instructional talk covering strategies for formatting data for effective use with R given at the WSU R Working Group, Pullman, WA in 2020. Link to blog post here.

Instructional talk on R Markdown given at the WSU R Working Group, Pullman, WA in 2020. Link to previous blog post on the topic here.

Instructional talk on the Shiny R package given at the WSU R Working Group, Pullman, WA in 2020. Link to blog post here.

Instructional talk on the basics of map() and related functions from the purrrpackage in R and how to effectively do analysis using data in lists. Given at the WSU R Working Group, Pullman, WA in 2020.

Instructional talk on advanced applications of ggplot2 given at the WSU R Working Group, Pullman, WA in 2019. Link to blog post here.

Instructional talk on R Markdown given at the WSU R Working Group, Pullman, WA in 2019. Link to blog post here.

Instructional talk on script and data cleaning in R given at the WSU R Working Group, Pullman, WA in 2019. Link to blog post here.

Instructional talk on the Shiny R package given at the WSU R Working Group, Pullman, WA in 2018. Link to blog post here.

Talk given at the Coast Redwood Science Symposium, Eureka, CA in 2016.

Talk given at the Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting in Fort Lauderdale, FL in 2016.

Talk given at Archaeological Institute of America/American Philological Association Annual Meeting in 2014.

Talk given at Northwest Scientific Association Annual Meeting in 2014.