R-Ladies Cologne – Our first year in the books!

Thank you all for a fantastic year at R-Ladies Cologne!

We had a series of great events which gave us the chance to meet so many wonderful and kindhearted people across the globe. This is one thing that always makes me so thankful to be part of the community 🥰

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Worldmap showing hearts and stars that symbolize where the organizers (Botswana, France, Germany, Nairobi, and Tunisia) and the speakers (Germany, Switzerland, UK, and the US) are from.

But let’s recap 2022 in more in-depth…

✨ While we started R-Ladies Cologne in 2021, we kicked off our chapter in February 2022 with an excellent roundtable hosting the fantastic Alison Hill, Ana Caroline Leote, Angelica Becerra as well as Nina Hauser and talked about empowering women in data (science). This blog post also summarizes the kick-off event.

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Banner of the roundtable showing the four speakers (Alison Hill, Ana Carolina Leote, Angelica Becerra, and Nina Hauser).

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✨ Following our kickoff, we had the chance to learn more about R in bioinformatics with Ana Carolina Leote who gave us such a smooth and nicely visualized introduction 🧬

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Banner of the workshop on R and bioinformatics with an image of Ana Carolina Leote.

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✨For our next meeting we teamed up with R-Ladies Gabarone and Pavitra Chakravarty to host an event about regex (regular expressions) in April. Whenever you work with text data (or also when you want to write function conditions), regex can be a lifesaver. Pavitra told us many tips and tricks 🥰

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Banner of the workshop on using R and regular expressions logos of R-Ladies Gabarone and R-Ladies Cologne.

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✨ In May, we had the amazing Ellie King who walked us through numerous tips and tricks when preparing for the wild – aka for the tech job market. She is also a co-founder of Equal IT and seeks to promote more gender diversity in tech – if this is something for you, check out their profiles!

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Banner of the workshop on “Preparing for the Wild” with an image showing Ellie King.

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✨ June was a “first-time” month – we partnered up with R-Ladies Nairobi to host the first-ever R-Ladies “#rstats hangout” on Twitter (including funny preparations and experiments how to get the thing running) with a chat with Shannon Pileggi 💜

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Banner of the #rstats hangout with an image showing Shannon Pileggi.

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✨ Kicking off a new series, we joined forces with PyLadies Munich, R-Ladies Paris and PyLadies Tunis in July to bring the beauty of R and Python to the communities 💙💛💜

Rhian Davies and Deena Gergis told us how they work bilingually and showcased it using examples from their work. If you want to know more about the event, read this short blog post.

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Banner of the PyLadies and R-Ladies meetup.

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✨ And because it was such a pleasure, we continued the series with Tanya Shapiro’s workshop on {plotnine} – a Python library that combines the logic of {ggplot2} with Python’s {seaborn}.

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Banner of the R-Ladies and PyLadies meetup with Tanya Shapiro.

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All in all, it’s been a fantastic year that allowed us to meet and collaborate with so many great people 💜 we cannot wait to see what the next year has in for us – we cannot say too much but we already have the next events lined up and will continue with our “R-Ladies 💜 PyLadies” series 🤗!