Talks and Workshops

Categorical Survey of Complex Survey Data in R 21 November 2025
An interactive short course on analyzing categorical survey data in R using weighted methods and survey design techniques, presented at MAPOR 2025.

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Creating Polished, Branded Documents with Quarto 04 November 2025
A hands-on workshop on creating polished websites, reports, presentations, and dashboards in Quarto, with consistent theming using brand.yml, presented at R/Pharma 2025.

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Automating Repetitive Reports with Quarto 24 October 2025
A webinar on creating report templates with Quarto and automating polished, repeatable outputs, presented at the 2025 MAPOR Fall Webinar Series.

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Positron for RStudio Users: A Gentle Introduction 09 October 2025
A session introducing Positron, the new IDE from Posit, highlighting familiar features and what’s new for RStudio users, presented at R-Ladies Gaborone.

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Branded Websites, Presentations, Dashboards, and PDFs with Quarto 16 September 2025
A workshop on creating polished websites, reports, presentations, and dashboards with Quarto, including consistent theming with brand.yml, presented at posit::conf(2025).

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Complex Survey Data Analysis: A Tidy Introduction with {srvyr} and {survey} 08 August 2025
An interactive tutorial on analyzing weighted survey data in R using tidyverse workflows and survey design methods, presented at useR! 2025.

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Quarto—To Tell Your Story with Data 26 June 2025
A workshop introducing the fundamentals of Quarto, from document creation to code integration and customization, presented at GASP 2025.

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Build Automated, Tailored Marketing Dashboards for Optimized Marketing Spend 25 June 2025
A demo on turning messy, manual marketing reporting into an automated, Shiny-powered dashboard that delivers clear, tailored insights, presented at the End-to-End Workflow With Posit Team Meetup.

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Choosing the right tool for interactive dashboards: flexdashboard, Quarto, and Shiny 10 April 2025
A talk comparing flexdashboard, Shiny, and Quarto dashboards, with practical guidance on choosing the right tool for your project, presented at ShinyConf 2025.

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Brand your Quarto projects with brand.yml 12 March 2025
A talk on using brand.yml to bring consistent, on-brand styling to all your Quarto reports, presentations, and websites, presented at R-Ladies Philly.

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Tidy Data, Weighted Insights: Analyzing Complex Survey Data in R 25 February 2025
A talk on analyzing weighted survey data in R using srvyr and tidyverse tools, presented at a joint meetup with R-Ladies Amsterdam and R-Ladies RTP.

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Interactive R, Python, and Shiny in the Browser 21 February 2025
A talk on bringing R, Python, and Shiny projects to life in the browser using Quarto Live and Shinylive, no server required, presented at R-Ladies Rome.

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From Notebooks to Dashboards with Quarto 23 September 2024
A workshop on creating polished, shareable dashboards with Quarto using a clear, reproducible workflow, presented at Small Data SF.

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Using pins for Shiny with ever-changing data 28 August 2024
A demo on keeping Shiny apps up to date automatically with frequently changing data, presented at the End-to-End Workflow With Posit Team Meetup.

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Quarto Dashboards 18 July 2024
A walkthrough on building dynamic, interactive dashboards with Quarto, presented at R-Ladies Rome.

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Automating your reporting with Quarto Dashboards and Posit Connect 29 May 2024
A webinar on building lightweight dashboards with Quarto and automating them on Posit Connect, presented at the End-to-End Workflows With Posit Team Meetup.

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Getting Started with Report Writing Using Quarto 23 January 2024
A beginner-friendly introduction to writing and automating reports with Quarto, presented at R-Ladies Nairobi.

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The Medium is the Message: R Programmers as Content Creators 19 August 2023
A keynote on how R programmers can shape ideas and influence others by becoming thoughtful content creators, presented at Cascadia R Conf.

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Seven Essential Excel Data Visualization Tips (in R!) 07 June 2023
A talk on creating Excel-style data visualizations in R that are reproducible, customizable, and shareable, presented at the Salt Lake City R Users Group.

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What's new in the tidyverse 22 March 2023
A talk on the latest tidyverse updates and how they streamline data wrangling, visualization, and analysis, presented at R-Ladies Rome.

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Intro to Quarto 27 October 2022
An introduction to Quarto, a tool for creating reproducible documents, reports, and dashboards with R, Python, and more, presented at R-Ladies St. Louis.

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Building a Blog With Quarto 30 August 2022
A talk on creating a blog and sharing your data science work using Quarto, presented at the RStudio Enterprise Community Meetup.

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Building a Blog With R 25 January 2022
A talk on why blogging matters and how to share your R work using tools like blogdown and distill, presented at the RStudio Enterprise Community Meetup.

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Packages for Using R With Python, Tableau, and Other Tools 10 December 2021
A talk on using R’s interoperability features to connect your work with tools like Python and Tableau, presented at Why R? Conference.

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Around the World in a Single Table (gt Walkthrough) 27 October 2021
A talk on creating clear, professional tables in R using the gt package, presented at R-Ladies Johannesburg.

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