2  Our R Events

2.1 Upcoming Events

2.1.1 Johannesburg R User Group

Date	Title	Venue
2024-07-09	Monthly Community Developer Night	Microsoft
2024-12-10	Monthly Community Developer Night	Microsoft

2.1.2 Cape Town R User Group

Date	Title	Venue

2.1.3 R-Ladies Johannesburg

Date	Title	Venue

2.1.4 R-Ladies Cape Town

Date	Title	Venue

2.2 Past Events

2.2.1 Johannesburg R User Group

Date	Title	Venue
2016-03-08	First JHB R Users Meetup!	Microsoft Bryanston Office
2016-06-14	Second R User Meet-up! Machine Learning	Microsoft Bryanston Office
2016-11-08	R Users Last meetup for 2016! Speakers Announced	Microsoft Bryanston Office
2017-08-10	In-depth Machine Learning (Natural Language Processing)	Microsoft Bryanston Office
2018-06-29	Johannesburg R User Group - June 2018	Microsoft Bryanston Office
2018-08-10	Johannesburg R User Group - August 2018	Discovery Group (Sandton Head Office)
2018-10-15	Johannesburg R User Group - Introduction to R	Jemstep by Invesco
2018-11-20	Johannesburg R User Group - November 2018	Standard Bank Multi Function Room A
2018-12-11	Year-end meetup	Braamfontein Gate
2020-01-29	rstudio::conf 2020 Watch Party	Discovery Group (Sandton Head Office)
2020-03-07	satRday 2020 in Johannesburg	Discovery Group (Sandton Head Office)
2020-12-03	Fieldtrip: Brighton R Online Event	Online event
2022-10-11	Johannesburg R User Group - October 2022	Microsoft
2022-11-08	Johannesburg R User Group - November 2022	Microsoft
2022-12-13	Creating, deploying and consuming REST APIs in R	Microsoft
2023-02-21	Swipe Right on R Data Analysis & Shiny for Python Meets Quarto	Microsoft
2023-03-14	Automating workflows using public domain EconData	Microsoft
2023-04-11	GitHub Copilot for Data Scientists using R & Databricks for R developers	Microsoft
2023-05-09	Databricks for R developers	Microsoft
2023-06-13	Key Insights for Data Scientists from Microsoft Build	Microsoft
2023-07-11	Ploomber: Elevating Your R-Based Data Science Workflow	Microsoft
2023-07-21	Add R support to Ploomber/Soorgeon Hack session	Online event
2023-08-08	Plumber API for Business. DAGitty for Causal Diagrams.	Microsoft
2023-09-12	R usage in Operation Research	Microsoft
2023-09-20	posit::conf(2023) Watch Party	Discovery Group (Sandton Head Office)
2023-10-10	posit::conf(2023) Highlights - Round Table Discussion	Microsoft
2023-11-14	Stochastic Simulation and ML	Microsoft
2023-12-12	End of Year Panel Discussion and Quiz Extravaganza!	Microsoft
2024-02-13	Spatial Data Science with Applications in R	Microsoft
2024-03-12	Rhino Framework & Lightning Talk	Microsoft
2024-04-09	Spatial Data Science with Applications in R	Microsoft
2024-05-14	Mastering Spatial Point Patterns: A Deep Dive into the R Spatstat Package	Microsoft
2024-06-11	Exploring 3D mapping with rayshader and osmdata for R users	Microsoft
2024-07-09	Monthly Meetup	Microsoft
2024-07-09	Monthly Meetup	Microsoft
2024-07-09	Monthly Community Developer Night	Microsoft
2024-07-09	Unlocking Insights with R: Dive into South African Police Service Crime Stats	Microsoft
2024-08-13	Quacking Efficiently: Exploring DuckDB Integration and Performance in R	Microsoft
2024-09-10	Leveraging R for Occupational Forecasting in South Africa's Manufacturing Sector	Microsoft
2024-11-12	Visualising Economic and Spatial Data with R	Microsoft

2.2.2 Cape Town R User Group

Date	Title	Venue
2023-09-30	Cape Town R User Group - Meet and Greet, Sat 30 Sep 2023, 02:00 PM	P. D. Hahn Building
2024-07-05	RUG CPT Meetup	Kapstadt Brauhaus
2024-09-27	RUG CPT Meetup	Kapstadt Brauhaus

2.2.3 R-Ladies Johannesburg

Date	Title	Venue
2018-07-19	July Meetup	EMPIRE Road, JOHANNESBURG
2018-08-28	August Meetup	EMPIRE Road, JOHANNESBURG
2018-09-25	September Meetup	The Campus, Wembley Building
2018-10-23	October Meetup	EMPIRE Road, JOHANNESBURG
2018-11-27	November Meetup	Wits University
2018-12-11	Year-end meetup	Braamfontein Gate
2019-02-21	February Meetup	Wits University
2019-03-12	March meetup: Ethics in Data Science	Wits University
2019-04-06	satRday lunch meetup	Discovery Place
2019-05-28	May meetup: Intro to Spatial Statistics	The Main Straight - Campari
2019-06-25	June Meetup: How to talk to business as a data scientist	rain
2019-07-30	July meetup: Intro to Shiny	Wits University
2019-08-27	August Meetup: Dysfunctional Bot - Generating Humorous Texts using spaCy	rain
2019-10-01	September Meetup - Intro to writing your own Package in R	The Main Straight - Campari
2019-10-29	Oct meetup: Survival analysis in R	Wits University
2019-11-14	Nov meetup: Text Mining Using Tidy Data Principles	The Main Straight - Campari
2020-01-29	rstudio::conf(2020) Watch Party	Discovery Group (Sandton Head Office)
2020-02-25	Feb meetup: ggWhat to ggplot - a guide to creating powerful visualisations	The Main Straight - Campari
2020-03-05	March meetup: Hanging out with SatRday Keynote Speakers	The Main Straight - Campari
2020-04-21	April meetup: Cluster Analysis - Understanding data behaviour	NA
2020-05-26	May meetup: Databases in R	Online event
2020-06-25	June meetup: Web Scraping using R	Online event
2020-07-23	useR! 2020: Create and share reproducible code with R Markdown and workflowr	Online event
2020-08-25	Create and share reproducible code with R Markdown and workflowr (Repeat)	Online event
2020-09-07	First steps in spatial data handling and visualisation	Online event
2020-10-26	Sensitivity Analysis of Parameters in Disease Modelling	Online event
2020-11-30	Blogging with RMarkdown	Online event
2021-01-14	aRt + ggplot: exploring radial visualizations	Online event
2021-02-25	Take a Sad Plot & Make It Better	Online event
2021-03-30	Shiny using Auth0	Online event
2021-07-02	How to make web-ready maps - A beginner's perspective	Online event
2021-09-14	treeheatr and pmlbr: visualizing decision trees on benchmark datasets	Online event
2021-10-27	Around the world in a single table	Online event
2021-11-02	Spatial network analysis with the sfnetworks package	Online event
2021-11-25	Introduction to the {arrow} package	Online event
2022-03-29	Introduction to the {learnr} package for Interactive Tutorials	Online event
2022-04-04	Become an R Package Developer	Online event
2022-05-24	Making Functions for Rtistry	Online event
2022-06-14	Why R for legal backgrounds?	Online event
2022-09-13	How to Send Email With R	Online event

2.2.4 R-Ladies Cape Town

Date	Title	Venue
2017-07-17	Come and meet the R-Ladies community in Cape Town	3rd Floor, Bandwidth Barn, Woodstock Exchange
2017-08-14	August R-Ladies	Energy Research Centre
2017-10-16	October R-Ladies Meetup: Tidyverse	3rd Floor, Bandwidth Barn, Woodstock Exchange
2017-11-04	Datavis with ggplot2 // What R-Ladies get up to in Tbilisi, Georgia	Greenpoint Coworking
2017-12-04	December R-Ladies Meetup: Regular Expressions	3rd Floor, Bandwidth Barn, Woodstock Exchange
2018-03-15	Planning 2018 R-Ladies Meetups	3rd Floor, Bandwidth Barn, Woodstock Exchange
2018-03-15	R-Ladies satRday event: Blogs with R	3rd Floor, Bandwidth Barn, Woodstock Exchange
2018-04-17	Docker for Data Science	3rd Floor, Bandwidth Barn, Woodstock Exchange
2018-05-17	Network visualisations in R	Praekelt Offices
2018-06-19	R-Ladies CT Double-Whammy Winter Warmer	Workshop 17, The Watershed
2018-07-26	Mapping in R	3rd Floor, Bandwidth Barn, Woodstock Exchange
2018-08-21	What's in a date?	3rd Floor, Bandwidth Barn, Woodstock Exchange
2018-09-18	September meetup	3rd Floor, Bandwidth Barn, Woodstock Exchange
2018-10-30	Data Science at the City of Cape Town	3rd Floor, Bandwidth Barn, Woodstock Exchange
2018-11-15	Spreading the R love!	3rd Floor, Bandwidth Barn, Woodstock Exchange
2019-02-21	Zindi: Practice your model building to solve Africa's most pressing problems	3rd Floor, Bandwidth Barn, Woodstock Exchange
2019-03-14	Eagles and predictive modelling in R	3rd Floor, Bandwidth Barn, Woodstock Exchange
2019-04-25	Applications of R: From detecting marine heatwaves to mapping out school data	3rd Floor, Bandwidth Barn, Woodstock Exchange
2019-08-13	Hidden Markov Models - An introduction	3rd Floor, Bandwidth Barn, Woodstock Exchange
2019-09-17	#TidyTuesday Practical Session	3rd Floor, Bandwidth Barn, Woodstock Exchange
2019-10-17	Introduction to Natural Language Processing	3rd Floor, Bandwidth Barn, Woodstock Exchange
2020-04-16	Introduction to Shiny	Online event
2020-05-05	From Models to Medical Care	Online event
2020-05-16	Introduction to Machine Learning in R	Online event
2020-07-27	GBV Prevalence in Kenya: Caroline Akoth (Women in GIS Kenya)	Online event
2020-08-20	Of course I can do the stats for your paper - how to grab opportunities with R	Online event
2020-10-07	Web Scraping with Andrew Collier: Session 1	Online event
2020-10-14	Web Scraping with Andrew Collier: Session 2	Online event
2020-10-21	Web Scraping with Andrew Collier: Session 3	Online event
2020-10-28	Web Scraping with Andrew Collier: Session 4	Online event