Welcome to R-Ladies Rome

Extending the data science workflow: {vetiver} and {pins}
Speaker: Isabel Zimmerman

22 March, 2024

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What to expect from this talk?

Whether you’re a beginner or an experienced data practitioner, this session promises to provide actionable strategies and tips for enhancing your data science capabilities!

Welcome Everyone!

Welcome to our March event hosted by R-Ladies Rome! I’m Silvana Acosta, one of the chapter’s organizers, and I’m thrilled to have you all here tonight. We’re also delighted to be joined by Federica Gazzelloni and Rafaela Ribeiro Lucas. Today, we have the honor of welcoming our speaker, Isabel Zimmerman, who will be sharing insights on extending the data science workflow with the {vetiver} and {pins} packages.

What is R-Ladies?

R-Ladies is a global organization with the mission of promoting the R language and for empowering women at all user levels by building a collaborative global network.
It is a gender diversity friendly community founded in 2012 by Gabriela de Queiroz in San Francisco.

R-Ladies is now a world-wide organization with 219 chapters in 63 countries, 3943 events and more than 93,000 members globally. For more information, please visit rladies.org

R-Ladies Rome is a local chapter of R-Ladies Global dedicated to promoting gender diversity in the R language community. Our monthly meetings provide a platform to discuss current trends and hot topics in R, and we encourage active participation and engagement from all attendees. We welcome your suggestions and comments, and invite you to get in touch to join our vibrant community.

Organizers and Volunteers:

Founder of the chapter is Claudia Vitolo, and Co-founder of R-Ladies Global.

Lead Organizer of the chapter is Federica Gazzelloni

Organizers are Silvana Acosta and Rafaela Ribeiro Lucas

We are always open to new joiners, so if you’d like to contribute to our Rome chapter and being a co-organizer let us know: https://forms.gle/SkBiab8LhLcehpKu6

January - Introduction to Quarto with Torin White & R-Ladies Paris
February 17 - Building a CahtBot with Shiny and R with James Wade & TunisR User Group
February 20 - Debugging in R with Shannon Pileggi
March 22 - Vetiver and model deployment with Isabel Zimmerman
April 16 - R for geospatial data science and public health surveillance with Paula Moraga
May 24 - An Evening with Dr.Hadley Wickham
June - rOpenSci with Yanina Bellini Saibene
July - TBD
August - Nasa-Openescapes with Julia Stewart Lowndes

Please scan this QR code or head to https://slido.com and type #modelvalidation

Today’s presentation

It’s now time to hand the floor over to our esteemed speaker.

Please join me in welcoming Isabel Zimmerman, software engineer at Posit, PBC (formerly RStudio) where she works primarily on tools for MLOps tasks. She also serves as the current Editor in Chief at pyOpenSci, where she helps facilitate open scientific software in the Python ecosystem.

Without further ado, welcome to Extending the Data Science Workflow with{vetiver} and {pins}!