tidypredict with recipes, turning workflow to SQL, spark, duckdb and beyond
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

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

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

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