workshops

Upcoming workshops

Our workshop schedule includes both on-campus and online events, plus occasional joint events with other groups.

External workshop schedule

We also maintain a curated list of external R workshops, conferences, and online events that might interest UNSW students and staff.

If you miss a session, you can still follow along with the materials later.

Past workshops

Please see below a list of past workshops with links to workshop materials.

aRe you using R? You aRe not alone!

R community mixeR event

Organised by UNSW codeRs, R Appreciation Society and other R enthusiasts

Phylogenetic trees

How to find them and make them pretty

Phylogenetic trees: How to find them and make them pretty

Intro to Meta Analysis in R

In this workshop, we will first go through the ‘workflow’ of what a meta-analysis in R entails. We will then run through some code together on a sample dataset to get a global effect size and heterogeneity, as well as run some meta-regression analyses of potentially important moderator variables. We will also create some plots that are commonly used in meta-analyses. The code we learn in this workshop can be adapted to any meta-analysis dataset from any field.

Data Visualization - ggplot themes in R

Workshop description: Tired of ggplot2’s default colour palette and grey background? Want to change the typeface of your text? Wondering how to spice up your legend? While…

Katana For R

We live in a data-driven era, where collecting large amounts of information is becoming increasingly more accessible. There is now an unprecedented demand for more flexible…

Data Wrangling Workshop

How do hyper-diverse communities of plants emerge and seemingly persist without driving each other to extinction? This is the question that motivates my recent research…

Geospatial Data in R

Spatial data is essential for understanding many phenomena in natural and social sciences, and maps are used in a variety of fields to visualise data and results in an…

Getting Started - What R and the Tidyverse can do for you

abstract: R is becoming a standard method for analysing data yet at first R can be overwhelming and may seem like a foreign language. In this workshop, you will be…

Version Control with Git

Have you ever broken your code and/or lost track of the changes you’ve made? Have you ever trawled through your manual back ups to find some files you’ve hidden away? Have your collaborators ever emailed you code fixes and you struggle to see what has been updated? Maybe Git can help! Git is software for tracking changes in any set of files and also for coordinating work among collaborators. This workshop was designed for beginners and will guide participants in setting up git. We walked through some key git concepts then, put these into into practice during an interactive session.

Data Visualisation with ggplot

In this workshop we aim to give you a taste of what data visualisations are possible in R. We will dazzle you with an introduction to graphics creation using ggplot before…

What R and the Tidyverse can do for you

R is becoming a standard method for analysing data, yet at first R can be overwhelming and may seem like a foreign language. In this workshop, you will be introduced to the coding language R, the software RStudio, and a tool called tidyverse.

Introduction to Classification Trees and Random Forests in R

“Random Forests” are used everywhere, and for good reason! Random Forest is a powerful and versatile machine learning algorithm that grows and combines multiple decision…

José R. Ferrer-Paris

Blogdown and Making Websites in R

This workshop invites R users with basic/intermediate knowledge who are interested in learning how to build a personal website using the Blogdown package (no prior knowledge with Blogdown is required).

Jenny Sloane, Tehilla Ostrovsky

Loops and beyond: Elegant iteration with the purrr package

Why should I purrr? Scientific research is often a “broken record” game: we must repeat the same calculations over and over again. In this inaugural UNSW codeRs workshop, Aniko will teach you have to repeat yourself efficiently in R without using copy-paste.