SOLES codeRs are a community of R users, coders, and makers (or aspiring to be, anyway), based in the School of Life and Environmental Sciences, at USyd. Run by staff and students, we enjoy catching up in-person and online to share knowledge and learn new skills around R and data-wrangling/analysis more broadly, in a safe and friendly environment.
Join us
What do we do? We catch up fortnightly during semester to both learn/refine skills and hack away at our own data and R-related problems together.
Everyone is welcome: students (undergrad, honours, HDR, ++), academics, and researchers across all career stages, interests, and levels of experience - the more the merrier! There’s no need to notify of attendance, just check the schedule, join the online Slack group, and come along whenever you like.
Is there food? Yep! If nothing else, come for a chat & snacks!
Is there a remote option? Yep! Join for the presentation via zoom shortly after the scheduled start time (to allow for snacking). The link will be available on Slack.
How do we stay in touch? Join us on Slack, via this invitation link (for all @sydney email addresses, otherwise just email Tom for a link). Slack is basically a chatroom, where we can easily keep in touch and share things, without the hassle of more email. All announcements and general chit-chat will be via the solescodeRs slack workspace, but you can always set up email alerts for messages in there if you prefer.
Want to contribute? Got suggestions? If you have some experience with R or related areas and would like to be involved (e.g. by lending an ear/eye at the in-person sessions), we’d be very glad to have you! Get in touch anytime. Note that advanced skills and deep experience aren’t required at all (we’re not experts) just some decent working knowledge and a willingness to lend your brain to new problems.
Also if you have suggestions for topics you’d like to learn more about, or people you’d like to hear from, we’d be similarly glad to hear it. This is a new endeavour so feedback, thoughts, and suggestions are most welcome as we continue to find out way.