Talks, Workshops, and Courses – María Nanton

Mastering Shiny Bookclub

Along with R en Baires we co-organized and launched a book club for Mastering Shiny by Hadley Wickham. The goal of this initiative was to explore a selection of chapters…

Workshop - NA worries! Learn to validate data with R

In this session, we explored some of the best tools for validating tabular data in R.

R in a Network (R en Red)

In this meetup co-organized between R en Buenos Aires and RLadies Buenos Aires we shared with attendees different ways to get involved in the R user community by developing…

Using R for Automating Administrative Procedures (LatinR 2024)

For LatinR 2024, together with Ariana Bardauil and Manuel Rodríguez Tablado, we presented “Experiences in Using R for Automating Administrative Procedures: Cost Recovery in…

Open Science 101 at University of the Andes

Sabrina López, José Luis Villca Villegas, and I shared MetaDocencia’s work virtually at the University of Los Andes in Colombia. This was the first of a two-part virtual…

ALTa Ciencia Abierta (Latin America Transforms to Open Science)

The ALTa Ciencia Abierta course is designed to provide a comprehensive introduction to open science practices, focusing on key topics like reproducible research, open data…

Panel - Challenges and Strategies in Creating Healthcare Datasets for AI (JIS Summit 2023)

I participated in the panel “Challenges and Strategies in Creating Healthcare Datasets for Artificial Intelligence Tools”. Santiago Esteban, MD, MPH, MBA, a member of CIIPS…

Become a R Contributor. Adding translations to base R (LatinR 2023)

In our talk “Become an R Contributor: Contributing translations to R base” with Paola Corrales we presented the process of adding translations to base R via weblate.

Data Science with R for Public Health Impact. A Tidyverse Experience in Pregnancy Detection (LatinR 2022)

Together with Sabrina Laura López, Carolina Mengoni Goñalons and Manuel Rodríguez Tablado we presented “Experiences in Using R for Automating Administrative Procedures: Cost…

Geographic Data for Public Health Decision-Making for COVID-19 Pandemic (FOSS4G 2021)

In our talk “The Importance of Geographic Data for Public Health Decision-Making During the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Experience of the Health Information and Statistics…

From Social Sciences to Data Science

From RLadies Buenos Aires along with the Social Innovation Hub (NIS) we organized this talk with four graduates from Social Sciences-related fields who work in data science.

Workshop - Data-Informed Decision Making. The Role of Data Science in Health (JIS 2020)

We developed and delivered an introductory workshop to Data Science for physicians and decision-makers as part of the Health Informatics Conferece organized by the Health…

Workshop - Introduction to Tidyverse (Women in Bioinformatics and Data Science)

In this tutorial, along with Jimena Saucedo we gave an introduction to the use of R and of Tidyverse for data manipulation with dplyr and visualization with ggplot2.

Workshop - Visualizing Text Data

Over 60 people joined R-Ladies Buenos Aires’ workshop where I taught how to visualize text data.