We are very excited to announce our last meetup of the year with Erin Grand.

Her Talk:Many schools across the country are starting to use data to help improve student outcomes. In this talk,Erinwill discuss what kind of data she gets to dive into & some of the challenges each project faces. She'll talk about ways to clean messy data, how using R has helped speed up everything, & the amazing janitor package.

Her Bio: Erinjoined Uncommon Schools as an Associate Director of Data Analytics in the summer of 2016. Prior to Uncommon, she worked as a DataScientist at Crisis Text Line & a software programmer at NASA. She recently completed her mastersin Data Science at Columbia University. In the past,Erinresearched star formation & taught introductory courses in astronomy & physics. In her free time,Erinenjoys reading, dancing & singing loudly to musical theatre.

Agenda:

6:30-6:45pm Light networking

6:45-7:00pm R-Ladies New York Announcements

7:00-7:45pm R in the world of Education by Erin Grand with Q&A

7:45-8:30pm End of year celebration/networking for R-ladies NewYork.

We want to thank our very generous host,AT&T NYC Data Science Research Center(stats.research.att.com) for having us in their space.