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<p><em><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">All sessions will be 9-11 am on Tuesday in the
<a href="http://new.library.arizona.edu/ispace">iSpace in the Science-Engineering Library</a></span></em><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">. To get the most out of these workshops, participants should bring a laptop with
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<span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">March 26: <strong><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Open R lab</span></strong>: Bring your R questions or just come in to write some code and enjoy coffee and pastries.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1">
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<span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">April 02: <strong><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Introduction to Functional Programming</span></strong>: The
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%27t_repeat_yourself">DRY</a> principle aims to reduce repetition in software engineering. By writing and using functions to accomplish a set of instructions multiple times, you reduce the opportunities for mistakes
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<span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">April 09: <strong><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Open R lab</span></strong>.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1">
<span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">April 16: <strong><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Introduction to Machine Learning in R with caret</span></strong>: During this workshop we’ll work on a classification problem using the caret package
in R to learn how to partition and pre-process data, perform algorithm selection, and tune and compare models. Workshop attendees should have a beginner to intermediate-level proficiency with R, and should come with R and RStudio installed, as well as the
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<span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">April 23: <strong><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Open R lab</span></strong>.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1">
<span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">April 30: <strong><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Open R lab</span></strong>.<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
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<span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">A tentative schedule of upcoming workshops is also available at:
<a href="https://jcoliver.github.io/learn-r/schedule">https://jcoliver.github.io/learn-r/schedule</a><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2">
<span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Want more help? Sign up for the UA Data Science Slack workspace at:
<a href="https://jcoliver.github.io/uadatascience-slack/">https://jcoliver.github.io/uadatascience-slack/</a><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2">
<span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Stay up to date with R workshops by signing up for the University of Arizona R Users mailing list at:
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<span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Find even more data science resources by signing up for the Data Science Events list at:
<a href="https://list.arizona.edu/sympa/info/data7-events">https://list.arizona.edu/sympa/info/data7-events</a><o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
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