Catch three data experts from the Providence Center for Outcomes Research & Education (CORE) at this year’s Cascadia R Conference, focusing on programming and data science
Coming up June 20 - 21, 2025, data scientists and developers from around the Pacific Northwest will gather in Portland for the annual Cascadia R Conference. The conference focuses on the R programming language used in areas like data analysis, data science, and data visualization.
CORE’s Yan Liu, Megan Holtorf, and Lindsay Dickey will present during the conference’s second day on June 21. Read on for details or click here to view the full agenda.
Leveraging large language models in R: practical applications with {ellmer}, presented by Yan Liu
This session explores practical applications of Large Language Models (LLMs) in R with the {ellmer} package, which enables researchers to use LLMs such as Anthropic’s Claude and Google Gemini from R. Yan will discuss using {ellmer} for tasks like image-to-text generation, text classification, and summarization, while addressing prompt engineering, ethical considerations, and the advantages of integrating LLMs into research workflows for enhanced text analysis and generation.
Taking action while you sleep: using GitHub actions to schedule email updates, presented by Megan Holtorf
Megan will share how to automate email updates for a running group using GitHub Actions to manage workflows overnight, showcasing how tools like R, {ical}, {quarto}, and {blastula} can automate tedious tasks.
Simplify repetitive report creation, presented by Lindsay Dickey
Lindsay will demonstrate how to efficiently slice a dataset and utilize markdown and parameters to create individualized reports for multiple organizations.
Learn more and register at https://cascadiarconf.com/
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