R in 3 Months Fall 2022 - Introductions thread!

Hello!

I'm Charlie (she/her) and have been working with R in some capacity since 2015 when I learned the language to build interactive data visualisations at University of Oxford. Since then I've primarily focused on teaching R with a focus on reproducible research and data visualisation. My background is physics - with a little bit of specialisation in biophysics. But it's been ages since I've done any calculus and have really enjoyed how my teaching career has given me the opportunity to see how R is used by all sorts of different folks around the world.

Hi! I'm Kirstin (she/her). I live and work in Oregon. I've been a research/evaluator for the Child Welfare Partnership in the School of Social Work at Portland State University for 25yrs. I'm new to R and excited to see how we can use in on my team to integrate what we currently use excel, spss and MSword to do.

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I'm Tom (he/him). I live and work in Portland, Oregon and am also a native! I've worked for the Oregon Health Authority for 15 years in a few different roles. Currently I'm in Public Health as a managing survey data. I'm excited to finally dig into R as I've seen several presentations of it's awesome abilities!

Hi I'm Michelle, Kenyan based in Nairobi. I have been using R since 2019 September to be precise :) I am passionate about using data and research to improve learnings, transform strategies and make decisions. I learnt R on the job which was a steep learning curve and this will be my first R course with instructors and everything so I'm very excited. Looking forward to connecting the dots, deepening my knowledge and meeting new people!

Hola-Hola!

My name is Miguel (he/him) and I am new to the R community. I hope to use R in my own personal and professional research to further share information to the broader public.

I'm looking forward to getting to know everyone!

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Hi, I am Morgan (she/her)! I graduated with a masters in research psychology and am pretty proficient with SPSS. I also work in an entry level clinical role with kids with severe OCD and anxiety. I am applying to clinical psychology phd programs and would liek to work in academia or industry in a clinical and research role, so I know R will be super useful to be more efficient.

Hey!! I'm Cat and have been working with R very on and off since maybe 2015. I've used it for small projects here and there on an as needed basis. My background is in biopsychology and ended up using it for class research projects and then work research projects later on from time to time.

Hi! I'm Nadia (she/her) from Guatemala City. My major is environmental engineering I've worked as a research assistant in my university in water and Covid-19 projects. I´m currently working in a startup that focuses developing insect animal protein. Here is where I started to learn about data analysis and reporting. That's how I got interested on learning how to produce visualizations that impact decision making. I am new in R, this is my first time using it. I am excited on learning how to program. I am a data science enthusiast

Hi! I'm Ruth and I'm a Senior Lecturer and Research Group leader at Queen's University in Belfast. I've dabbled with R and have encouraged my students to use it but have never persevered to the stage that I feel confident. I'm looking forward to using this course to overcome this blockage!

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My name is Fadiah. I am currently completing my AmeriCorps service year at KairosPDX in their IT Department. I've always had an interest in technology and hope learning R will help me in my career. I see myself working with data in the future so this is a nice beginning to my journey.

👋 hello. I'm Chris (he/him). I live in Charlotte, NC. I'm a Product Manager at a small software company. I've used R for a few years to help with work and a few side projects. At the end of the 3 months, I'm hoping to increase my confidence and skills with R.

My name is Elisée based in Cameroon. I am a forestry engineer. I hope to use R in my own personal and professional research to further share information with the broader public. I’m looking forward to getting to know everyone! :)

I'm Matt (he/him) and I am former actuary who wants to use R for some of the non-profit work I do. I am an Excel expert but want to make things easier and streamlined using R. I also love sports and have created models for sports betting and analysis. R would be a perfect tool for that as well.

Hello! My name is Tianna (she/her) and I am located in Seattle, WA. I am a current data manager in public health research but have a background in data, reporting, and evaluation. I've never received formal R training (I learned SPSS in grad school) but found that R is heavily used in data analytics in the research and public health fields. I'm really excited to learn more about R and how powerful it can me!

Hi, my name is Alba Garcia. I am original from Colombia. I am a Lawyer working for human rights and just finished my Master's Degree in Public Policy at the University of Chicago. I learned some R and need more work to master my knowledge. My main interest is the use of data science, and in particular, R, to build a better public policy that includes women.

Hi I am Ben Kamala, a research monitoring and evaluation consultant currrently working with Johns Hopkins University CCT Tanzania. Been working with data analysis for over 15 years all the way from Excel, Epi info, SPSS, and Stata, and now looks like R is unavoidable. So I jumped in to learn

Hi! I’m Jasmine (she/her). I live and work in New York City. I’ve been an informatics Consultant for Aetna/ActiveHealth Management. I am excited to relearn R in a safe space and to apply it to customer churn analytics at my organization. My manager currently use Minitab, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint but I have been meaning to incorporate R and R Markdown within our workflows. Again, super excited to be in the space and cannot wait to learn more from all of you :-)

Hi, I am Manraj (she/her) and I am a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard Medical School. I work in the area of health services research and have been using SPSS to-date with very boring visuals. I am a R newbie and am very excited to explore its full potential to clean the data, conduct analysis and create visuals and reports.

Am Julieth Silao from Tanzania. Am working and enjoying work with data and analyse of it by using spatial capabilities .

Hi everyone, I'm Youngjoo. I'm currently an evaluation fellow at the Center for Global Health, CDC. Previously I've mostly used SAS for my data analyses but am looking forward to learning more about R!

Hey everyone! I'm Asmaa. I'm an Education Researcher at the University of Washington (UW). This is my first time using R. I'm equally nervous and excited!