Introducing R-ladies Newcastle
summary
R-ladies grows from a handful of meetup chapters into a coordinated global network that now lists 44,000 members across 148 groups in about 45 countries. Local Newcastle chapter forms with academic-heavy membership, plans monthly meetups on the first Tuesday, first session 7 May in the Wrigley Building, mixing tutorials, talks and social events. Context: STEM is ~40% women but only ~9% of R package authors are women; the group focuses on increasing gender and minority-gender diversity and sharing resources.
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chapters (6)
- 0:00Start
- 0:23Women in the R community
- 1:13Women in user groups
- 3:39Organising team
- 4:22So what's our plan?
- 5:06How can you help?
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