2026
Slidecrafting Workshop at LatinR 2026
A 3-hour in-person hands-on workshop on making beautiful slides with reveal.js and Quarto, given at LatinR 2026 in Medellín, Colombia
Date: Nov 11, 2026
Slideware Is Dead: Long Live Quarto
Making the case for editable, code-generated slides with Quarto over LaTeX and drag-and-drop slideware
Date: Sep 16, 2026
Slidecrafting Workshop
A 2-hour hands-on workshop on making beautiful slides with reveal.js and Quarto
Date: Aug 12, 2026
Modeling the modeling into the database with orbital
Introduction of the orbital package. Showing how we can turn fitted workflows into SQL
Date: Jul 30, 2026
How do you create custom Revealjs themes in Quarto?
Making fun quarto slide themes
Date: Jul 28, 2026
Mind-Blowing Quarto Slide Extensions
A tour of revealjs slide crafting in Quarto and the extensions that make it more fun
Date: Jul 23, 2026
Feature Engineering
All about Feature Engineering, examples with Long Beach Animal Shelter.
Date: Jun 8, 2026
Quarto - A grab bag of tips, tricks, and features
A broad overview of new features and tools for quarto
Date: Mar 19, 2026
Slidecrafting - Past and Future
Broad talk about why different performance metrics matter and how we choose
Date: Mar 5, 2026
One Metric to Fool Yourself - One Metric to Fool Yourself
Broad talk about why different performance metrics matter and how we choose
Date: Feb 9, 2026
2025
Hyperparameter Fine-Tuning in tidymodels
A view into the different kinds of hyperparameter tuning methods out there
Date: Nov 12, 2025
Stop Horsing Around - Ship the Query!
Progress so far in orbital, using orbital to run predictions in the data base
Date: Oct 16, 2025
Feature Engineering
All about Feature Engineering, examples with Long Beach Animal Shelter.
Date: Oct 2, 2025
Flexible feature engineering using {recipes}
Delightful talk covering recipes from beginning to end.
Date: Aug 24, 2025
sparsity support in tidymodels, faster and less memory hungry models
Showcasing better sparsity support in tidymodels
Date: Aug 10, 2025
Don’t be dense, embracing sparsity in tidymodels
Showcasing better sparsity support in tidymodels
Date: Jul 22, 2025
2024
tidypredict with recipes, turning workflow to SQL, spark, duckdb and beyond
Introduction of the orbital package. Showing how we can turn fitted workflows into SQL
Date: Aug 13, 2024
Creating Stunning Presentations with Quarto
Take your slides and give them some life
Date: Aug 6, 2024
Making better error messages with cli
using cli to make better error messages, with examples from tidymodels
Date: Jul 3, 2024
Feature Engineering
All about Feature Engineering, examples with Long Beach Animal Shelter
Date: Apr 27, 2024
2023
What’s New in tidymodels
Overview of new and exciting things in tidymodels and slightly upcoming things.
Date: Oct 26, 2023
Styling and Templating Quarto Documents
worried about styling taking too much time? In 20 minutes you won’t anymore!
Date: Sep 19, 2023
Slidecraft - the art of creating pretty presentations
Making beautiful slides with quarto and revealjs
Date: Jul 13, 2023
Flexible feature engineering using {recipes}
Delightful talk covering recipes from beginning to end.
Date: Jun 7, 2023
Tidy Text Tutorial
2 hour tutorial, 1 part text mining, 1 part modeling with text.
Date: Apr 22, 2023
Having a purrr-tastic time
This was a small talk about purrr in general and some of the new things that was included in the 1.0.0 release.
Date: Feb 21, 2023
2022
tidyclust - expanding tidymodels to clustering
This talk marks the grand introduction of tidyclust, a new package that provides a tidy unified interface to clustering model within the tidymodels framework.
Date: Jul 27, 2022
Improvements in text preprocessing using textrecipes
This talk gives a brief overview of the basic functionality of the textrecipes package and a look at exciting recent additions.
Date: Jun 23, 2022
Machine learning with {tidymodels}
This workshop will provide a gentle introduction to machine learning with R using the modern suite of predictive modeling packages called tidymodels.
Date: Jun 20, 2022
I Did Advent of Code and This is What I Learned
This talk will pull back the curtain on a collective journey of learning, doing Advent of Code using R.
Date: Jun 9, 2022
2021
Work Smarter, Not Harder RStudio
This talk will take you around the myriad of customization and automation available to all RStudio users.
Date: Nov 23, 2021
Creating and Styling PPTX Slides with {rmarkdown}
This talk shows how we can use the pptxtemplates package to automatically style powerpoints.
Date: Aug 27, 2021
Text Preprocessing in R
This talk will focus on the {textrecipes} package and its recent advancements in the realm of text preprocessing.
Date: Jun 15, 2021
Tidymodels - An Overview
This talk will walk through the landscape of packages and their individual place, helping you get a bird's eye view.
Date: Jun 3, 2021
2020
Predictive modeling with text using tidy data principles
This tutorial is geared toward an R user with intermediate familiarity with R, RStudio, the basics of regression and classification modeling, and tidyverse packages such as dplyr and ggplot2.
Date: Oct 9, 2020
Looking at stop words: why you shouldn’t blindly trust model defaults
This talk will focus on the importance of checking assumptions and defaults in the software you use.
Date: Sep 26, 2020
palette2vec: A new way to explore color palettes
This talk shows what happens when we take one step further into explorability. Using handcrafted color features, dimensionality reduction, and interactive tools will we create and explore a color palette embedding.
Date: Sep 26, 2020
themis: dealing with imbalanced data by using synthetic oversampling
A walkthrough of the heart of the synthetic oversampling algorithms will be given in code and visualization along with talk about performance.
Date: Jul 9, 2020
Predictive modeling with text using tidy data principles
This tutorial is geared toward an R user with intermediate familiarity with R, RStudio, the basics of regression and classification modeling, and tidyverse packages such as dplyr and ggplot2.
Date: Jul 7, 2020
Git & Github
This seminar goes into detail why and how to use git in collaborative research.
Date: Jan 23, 2020
Reproducible preprocessing with recipes
Talk about using the recipes package to do preprocessing.
Date: Jan 23, 2020
2019
Building a package that fits into an evolving ecosystem
This talk tells the tale of the package textrecipes; starting with the Github issue that sparked the idea for the package, go over the trials and challenges associated with building a package that heavily integrates with other packages all the way to the release on CRAN.
Date: Nov 19, 2019
Data visualization with ggplot2
Hastly put together slides for Data-viz prep for Hackathon.
Date: Nov 9, 2019
Building R Packages
This seminar will go through the different use cases for a R package, dos and don’ts and best practices.
Date: Mar 28, 2019
Debugging and Profiling in R
This seminar will cover strategies and techniques for performing debugging and code profiling in R.
Date: Feb 19, 2019
Working with tidymodels
This talk will go through how to use tidymodels to do modeling in a tidy fashion.
Date: Jan 29, 2019
RStudio and R Resources
This seminar contains various links and resources for use in R and Rstudio.
Date: Jan 22, 2019
2018
Best Practices in R
This presentation will let you though a lot of different aspects of what you can do in R to make yourself happy, make sure that future you is happy, and avoid getting mad at past you.
Date: Oct 29, 2018
Text Analysis in R
I’ll talk you through a structured way to do exploratory data analysis(also called text mining) using tidytext to gain insight into the plain unstructured text.
Date: Oct 29, 2018
Similarity Measure in the Space of Color Palettes
Talk about designing a similarity measure to look at color palettes.
Date: Sep 25, 2018
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