Data Analysis with Pipes

NIH Frontiers in Data Science Series

Lecture Title: Data Analysis with Pipes

Please join us for a lecture by Hadley Wickham, Chief Scientist at RStudio and Adjunct Assistant Professor at Rice University. He is the author of several of the most revolutionary, influential, and popular software packages for the R statistical software environment including dplyr, ggplot2, reshape2, and numerous others. This lecture is sponsored by the NIH Office of the Associate Director for Data Science in conjunction with the National Cancer Institute.

Hadley Wickham
Chief Scientist at RStudio
and Adjunct Assistant Professor
Rice University

When: Wednesday, September 16, 2015, 2:30-3:30 pm
Where: Building 40, room 1201/1203

Abstract: Over the last year and half, three things have had a profound impact on how I develop tools for data analysis: Rcpp, writing the advanced R book (http://adv-r.had.co.nz/) and the pipe operator (%>%, from magrittr). In this talk, I'll focus on the pipe operator and how it’s influenced the development of tidyr, dplyr and ggvis, the next generation of reshape2, plyr and ggplot2. Come along to learn about why I think pipelines are awesome and see how pipelines + tidyr, dplyr, and ggvis can make your data analysis fast, fluent and fun.

Links of interest:
http://had.co.nz/
http://priceonomics.com/hadley-wickham-the-man-who-revolutionized-r/
http://www.r-bloggers.com/a-conversation-with-hadley-wickham-the-user-2014-interview/

Feel free to contact Sean Davis (sdavis2@mail.nih.gov) or Michelle Dunn (dunnm3@od.nih.gov) with questions.