We are excited this month to host two very active R-Ladies from our chapter: Amanda Dobbyn & Maryam Jahanshahi!

Amanda's talk will focus on the package 'drake'. Drake is a package designed to make designing & executing analysis pipelines easier & more reproducible. In this talk Amanda will run through an example of how drake can be used to manage an analysis workflow.

Amanda's Bio:
Amanda is a data scientist at Earlybird Software, a cloud application & data consulting company. She was previously an organizer of R-Ladies Chicago before escaping that frozen tundra for this one.

Maryam's talk will focus on designing & executing text processing pipelines. In this talk, Maryam will share lessons & takeaways on text processing & data management for natural language processing.

Maryam's Bio:
Maryam is a Research Scientist at TapRecruit, a software startup that helps companies improve the fairness & efficiency of their recruiting processes. In a past life, Maryam was a cancer biologist & a data journalist. In a future life, Maryam hopes to be a carpenter!