

Learning R available at Amazon and O’Reilly). The course focused on elements in his newly released book with Hadley, R for Data Science (the best book I’ve seen for Garrett was a great trainer and had well-organized materials for hands-on exercises. I was 100% satisfied with the tidyverse training, and the feedback I heard was similar for the other sessions. Other sessions were ‘Master R Developer’ with Hadley Wickham, and ‘Intermediate Shiny’ with Joe Cheng.

Thursday, I chose to attend the ‘Master the tidyverse’ training with Garrett Grolemund. The conference had a curious schedule with optional training Wednesday and Thursday, and conference general sessions Friday and Saturday. And… free hex stickers.Īnd oh, yeah, we did some serious learning. They rented out the Wizarding World of Harry Potter at Universal Studios just for us. Hadley Wickham was a keynote speaker discussing tidyverse. At some events, this might lead to awkward silence (crickets, coughing, et al.) – but here it was hard to get order back in the room – lots of whooping and hollering about R and excellent networking. The vibe was terrific – during most sessions we were encouraged to get to know the people sitting next to us. In case you couldn't be there, here are some of my insights from the event.įirst off, it was a fantastic event! I’ve been a long-time fan of the people and products of RStudio, not to mention that gathering with a bunch of like-minded data science gurus in Orlando in January (I live in Colorado) was just plain fun. The inaugural RStudio conference was held a few weeks ago, January 11 th-14 th in Orlando.
