R summit talk - Speaker Deck

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Fostering a community of scientiﬁc R developers @_inundata karthik.io

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bids.berkeley.edu

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Scott Chamberlain Carl Boettiger

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P values are just the tip of the iceberg Peng & Leek, 28 Apr 15

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50+ contributors • ~65 software tools Substantial contributor to CRAN

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#1 Completing the data pipelines

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Data retrieval (from APIs, data storage services, journals, and other remote servers). Data visualization (interactive graphics in R that extend beyond base and ggplot2).  Data deposition into research repositories, including metadata generation.  Data munging: With limited scope    Reproducibility (any tools that facilitate reproducible research, such as interfacing with git, tracking provenance or similar).

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Raw data DataONE CKAN Open Data Internet archive NOAA World Bank

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Text corpus Public Library of Science (PLOS) Biomed Central eLife Springer IEEE arXiv preprints bioarxiv preprints Elsevier (just kidding) “The new science journalism and open science” http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com

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Data viz ee_observations(genus = “lynx”) %>% ee_maps

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DATA SHOULD BE machine readable

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AUTOMATE BORING TASKS paint drying adding metadata

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Data publication ﬁgshare dvn zenodo dat * + EML git2r pipelines from ‘ * services 㽉 * Both in development

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#2 Building a user and developer community

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Teach basic lab skills for scientiﬁc computing so that researchers can do more in less time and with less pain. Teach basic concepts, skills and tools for working more effectively with data. Workshops are designed for people with little to no prior computational experience. Building capacity

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many transition from users to developers

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Domain experts are often bad programmers

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Only 19% of packages on CRAN have unit tests     46% of those rely on non-standard tests (i.e., a /tests/ directory but neither testthat or RUnit) Source: Oliver Keyes

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/ropensci/onboarding

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Empowering the next generation of R developers

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“Absolutely stellar gender diversity” I think this is the most gender-balanced tech conference I’ve been to. Great diversity in career and academia too.”

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