Helping Out and Learning: TAing in Tidymodels workshop at LatinR 2023
About LatinR (2023)
LatinR, the LatinAmerican Conference About the Use of R in R&D, held its 2023 edition in Montevideo, Uruguay. Although I had participated as an organizer or speaker in the 2021 and 2022 (virtual) editions of LatinR, this was my first year attending the event in person, since the last in-person edition of the conference was in 2019, in Chile.
What I particularly highlight from this edition of the conference is the opportunity to meet and exchange ideas in person with RLadies from different parts of Latin America, as well as with many public sector workers from various municipal and national entities who regularly use R to solve problems.
I was also able to help on the organizing committee, moderate a discussion panel on the use of Shiny in the public sector, and assisting in the delivery of a workshop.
Yanina Bellini, one of LatinR’s chairs, wrote a great post on this edition of LatinR.
ML with Tidymodels Workshop
I was already familiar with tidymodels having used it in several projects as well as in my Master’s studies, and I had also taken this workshop in posit::conf() 2023, so I volunteered to assist Max Kuhn and Hannah Frick in their workshop “Introduction to Machine Learning with Tidymodels” along with Jesica Formoso and Luis D. Verde Arregoitia.
Helping in the workshop was a great experience: the attendees had many questions, some related to the tidymodels framework in general, and others regarding conceptual aspects of machine learning.
Access the workshop’s materials here
