New York Open Statistical Programming Meetup

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Meet with other users of the open-source programming language R. Previously, this meetup focused only on the R language, but is now focused on all open-source data analysis tools; including but not limited to, Python, Julia, C++, Stan, etc.

Learn and share tricks and techniques from and with other users. Beginners to advanced users are all welcome.

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Grant Witness: An R-Powered Research and Advocacy Enterprise
Mon, Oct 19 · 7:00 PM EDT
Kimball, 246 Greene St, New York, NY 10003, USA, New York, NY, US
External registration required at nyhackr.

This month we have Noam Ross returning to discuss Federal grant monitoring.

Thank you to NYU for hosting us.

Everybody attending must RSVP through the registration form at nyhackr. There is a charge for in-person and virtual tickets are free.

Space is extremely limited and in-person registration closes at 3 PM the day of the talk.

About the Talk:
Grant Witness is an organization tracking the changes in federal science and health funding under the Trump administration. At the heart of our project is a team collaborating via a modern R stack for web scraping, data warehousing, analysis, modeling and publishing. This stack produces an authoritative, dollar by dollar and contract by contract database and a steady drumbeat of analyses highlighting the government's unlawful actions. Grant Witness data has been shown in Congressional hearings, cited by federal judges, and used to power advocacy campaigns, inform plaintiff recruitment, and support court filings. Our work appears in over 500 news articles. I will show the data tools our team has stood up to produce trustworthy data and reproducible research that responds to government at the speed of advocacy and journalism.

About Noam:
Noam Ross is co-founder of Grant Witness, a nonprofit project tracking government funding terminations and policy. He also serves as director of rOpenSci, where he has spent a decade leading R package peer review. He is a researcher studying and forecasting emerging infectious diseases, and advises on statistical and computational methods for predicting outbreaks.

The venue doors open at 6:30 PM America/New_York where we will continue enjoying pizza together (we encourage the virtual audience to have pizza as well). The talk, and livestream, begins at 7:00 PM America/New_York.

Remember, register at nyhackr.
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