Jun 9-13, 2025 | Virtual

R/Medicine 2025

The R/Medicine conference provides a forum for sharing R based tools and approaches used to analyze and gain insights from health data

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Software: ellmer pointblank Quarto renv

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Quarto Dashboards: from zero to publish in one hour

From R/Medicine 2025 You already analyze and summarize your data with R and Quarto. What’s next? You can share your insights or allow others to make their own conclusions in eye-catching dashboards and straight-forward to author, design, and deploy Quarto Dashboards. With Quarto Dashboards, you can create elegant and production-ready dashboards using a variety of components, including static graphics, interactive widgets, tabular data, value boxes, text annotations, and more. Additionally, with intelligent resizing of components, your Quarto Dashboards look great on devices of all sizes. And importantly, you can author Quarto Dashboards without leaving the comfort of your “home” – in plain text markdown with any text editor. In this one-hour demo we will build and publish a Quarto Dashboard – you can code-along or sit back and enjoy the show! Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel, Professor of the Practice at Duke University and Developer Educator at Posit Mine’s work focuses on innovation in statistics and data science pedagogy, with an emphasis on computing, reproducible research, student-centered learning, and open-source education as well as pedagogical approaches for enhancing retention of women and under-represented minorities in STEM. Mine works on the OpenIntro project, whose mission is to make educational products that are free, transparent, and lower barriers to education. As part of this project she co-authored four open-source introductory statistics textbooks – latest is the 2nd edition of Introduction to Modern Statistics. She is also a co-author on R for Data Science, the creator and maintainer of Data Science in a Box, and she teaches popular data analysis and data science with R courses on Coursera. Mine is a Fellow of the ASA and Elected Member of the ISI as well as a Waller and Hogg award winner for teaching excellence. In 2024, she was elected as Vice President of the International Association for Statistical Education (IASE). Resources R/Medicine: https://rconsortium.github.io/RMedicine_website/ R Consortium: https://www.r-consortium.org/

Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel

How to use pointblank to understand, validate, and document your data

R/Medicine Webinar This workshop focused on the data quality and data documentation workflows that the pointblank package makes possible. The speaker Richard Iannone used functions that allowed us to: quickly understand a new dataset validate tabular data using rules that are based on our understanding of the data fully document a table by describing its variables and other important details The pointblank package was created to scale from small validation problems (“Let’s make certain this table fits my expectations before moving on”) to very large (“Let’s validate these 35 database tables every day and ensure data quality is maintained”) and Ionnone delved into all sorts of data quality scenarios so the viewer will be comfortable using this package in their organization. Data documentation is seemingly and unfortunately less common in organizations (maybe even less than the practice of data validation). We’ll learn all about how this doesn’t have to be a tedious chore. The pointblank package allows you to create informative and beautiful data documentation that will help others understand what’s in all those tables that are so vital to an organization. Speaker Richard Iannone, Software Engineer, Posit, PBC Rich is a software engineer at Posit that enjoys creating useful R and Python packages. He trained and worked as an atmospheric scientist and discovered working with R to be a breath of fresh air compared to the Excel-based analysis workflows common in that field. Since joining Posit he has been focused on developing packages that help organizations with data management and data visualization/publishing. When not working on R and Python packages, Rich also enjoys other things like playing and listening to music, watching movies, and getting outside

R/Medicine 2025

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David Aja

Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel

Joe Cheng

Rich Iannone

Shannon Pileggi

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ellmer

pointblank

Quarto

renv

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Personal R Administration

Quarto Dashboards: from zero to publish in one hour

Demystifying LLMs with Ellmer

How to use pointblank to understand, validate, and document your data