useR! 2020 contributions were accepted for one of three formats:
- regular: ~15 minute talk
- lightning: ~5 minute talk
- poster: ~3 minute talk, with option to submit poster as supplementary material
These contributions have been arranged into topic-based sessions and corresponding video playlists are available on YouTube. Session titles link to their specific playlists.
Biostatistics
| Title | Speaker(s) | Talk Type | YouTube | Materials |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mortality Minder | Karan Bhanot | regular | video | files |
| pepFunk: peptide-centric functional enrichment for metaproteomic gut microbiome data | Caitlin Simopoulos | regular | video | files |
| rejustify AI-enhanced ETL engine | Marcin Wolski | regular | video | files |
| Building descriptive tables with the updated compareGroups package | Isaac Subirana | lightning | video | files |
| MeningiOMICS | Kaitlyn O’Shea | lightning | video | files |
| Methods of report generation in clinical trials using R and knitr | Alessio Maggiorelli | lightning | video | files |
| Robust alternatives for comparing time-event survival curves with R | Lubomir Stepanek | lightning | video | files |
| Comparing the Treatment Regimen of Newly Diagnosed Pediatric Leukemia Patients | Sierra Davis | poster | video | files |
| MUACz: An R Package for Generating MUAC and BMI z-scores and Percentiles for Children and Adolescents | Lazarus Mramba | poster | video | files |
Community
| Title | Speaker(s) | Talk Type | YouTube | Materials |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Communities of practice in Latin America: R and Friends | Laura Acion et al | regular | video | files |
| R community explorer: the state of R | Rick Pack (Ben Ubah) | regular | video | files |
| Tidy Tuesday: Scaffolding for a Community of Practice | Tom Mock | regular | video | files |
| Improving open data accessibility through package development and community work | Diego Kozlowski | poster | video | files |
Data Management
| Title | Speaker(s) | Talk Type | YouTube | Materials |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DataSailr package enables intuitive row by row data manipulation | Toshihiro Umehara | regular | video | files |
| Larger-than-memory R | Konrad Siek | regular | video | files |
| PostgreSQL As A Data Science Database | Parfait Gasana | regular | video | files |
| staypuft: object validation and serialization | Scott Chamberlain | regular | video | files |
| themis: dealing with imbalanced data by using synthetic oversampling | Emil Hvitfeldt | regular | video | files |
| missMethods - An R Package for Creating and Handling Missing Data as well as Evaluating Missing Data Methods | Tobias Rockel | lightning | video | files |
| SynthTools: An R Package to Measure Synthetic Data Utility | Charlotte Looby | lightning | video | files |
Economics and Finance
| Title | Speaker(s) | Talk Type | YouTube | Materials |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BVAR: Bayesian Vector Autoregressions with Hierarchical Prior Selection in R | Nikolas Kuschnig | regular | video | files |
| R for Data Privacy and Governance | Alyssa Columbus | regular | video | files |
| svars: An R Package for Data-Driven Identification in Multivariate Time Series Analysis | Alexander Lange | regular | video | files |
| Understanding Machine Learning for Diversified Portfolio Construction by Explainable AI | Dimitri Marinelli | regular | video | files |
| Multi-stage Financial Modeling using Machine Learning in R | Yong Chen, xuanyan cai | lightning | video | files |
| How green is your portfolio? Tracking CO2 footprint in the insurance sector | Antoine Logean | poster | video | files |
Machine Learning and Statistics
| Title | Speaker(s) | Talk Type | YouTube | Materials |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fast.ai in R preserving wildlife with computer vision | Jedrzej Swiezewski | regular | video | files |
| KeOps: Seamless Kernel Operations on GPU without memory overflows | B. Charlier, G. Durif | regular | video | files |
| Extending flexmix to model-based clustering with sparse data | Bettina Grün | lightning | video | files |
| How to simplify Machine Learning workflows specifications? | Anton Antonov | lightning | video | files |
| mlr3hyperband: Multi-Fidelity Hyperparameter Optimization with R | Sebastian Gruber | poster | video | files |
| Towards Trustworthy Machine Learning: Debugging with Expert Knowledge | Helena Kotthaus | poster | video | files |
Programming
| Title | Speaker(s) | Talk Type | YouTube | Materials |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| A method for deriving information from running R code | Mark van der Loo | regular | video | files |
| A Risk-based Assessment for R Package Accuracy | Andy Nicholls, Juliane Manitz | regular | video | files |
| Arbitrary precision linear algebra in R using RcppEigen and BH | Max Turgeon | regular | video | files |
| Flexibility in routines by using s4 classes: calculating habitat conservation status as an example | Els Lommelen | regular | video | files |
| How fastR can help R package developers | Stepan Sindelar | regular | video | files |
| The Current State and Future Prospects of Encoding Support in R | Tomas Kalibera | regular | video | files |
| FasteR code: vectorizing computations in R | S Gwynn Sturdevant | lightning | video | files |
| Why continuous integration will save your team and your packages | Sebastian Engel-Wolf | lightning | video | files |
| LabVIEW-R interface | damjan krizmancic | poster | video | files |
Reproducible Research
| Title | Speaker(s) | Talk Type | YouTube | Materials |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Be proud of your code! | Marcin Dubel | regular | video | files |
| Rapid & Reproducible Resistance Analysis For All - The AMR package for R | Matthijs Berends | regular | video | files |
| Using Pins to Ensure Reproducibility with Datasets | Javier Luraschi | regular | video | files |
| PRDA package: Enhancing Statistical Inference via Prospective and Retrospective Design Analysis. | Claudio Zandonella Callegher | lightning | video | files |
| projmgr: Managing the human dependencies of your project | Emily Riederer | lightning | video | files |
| Reactor: reactive notebooks for R | Herb Susmann | lightning | video | files |
| Why Should I use the Here Package When I’m Already Using Projects | Malcolm Barrett | lightning | video | files |
Social Science
| Title | Speaker(s) | Talk Type | YouTube | Materials |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| blavaan: An R package for Bayesian structural equation modeling | Ed Merkle | regular | video | files |
| sensemakr Sensitivity Analysis Tools for OLS | Carlos Cinelli | regular | video | files |
| simpr: concise and readable simulations for the tidyverse | Ethan Brown | regular | video | files |
| Social Categorizations in CRAN data | Simon Couch | lightning | video | files |
| Why Social Workers Need Data Science | Gina Griffin | lightning | video | files |
| Word Embeddings and Geometric Deep Learning for Social Network Analysis | Michael Ghisletti | lightning | video | files |
| Scoring the implicit: The implicitMeasures package | Ottavia Epifania | poster | video | files |
Spatial
| Title | Speaker(s) | Talk Type | YouTube | Materials |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| arcgisbinding: An R package for integrating R in ArcGIS | Orhun Aydin | regular | video | files |
| bcdata: Reproducible spatial data retrieval from a Geoserver Web Service | Andy Teucher | regular | video | files |
| Mapping 311 Requests by Community Area in Chicago Using Shiny, Leaflet, and The Tidyverse | Jim Kloet | lightning | video | files |
| Privacy protected maps using adaptive kernel density estimation | Edwin de Jonge | lightning | video | files |
Teaching
| Title | Speaker(s) | Talk Type | YouTube | Materials |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Learning R Through Spaced Repetition and the Remembr Package | Daniel Jacobs | regular | video | files |
| Moving backwards with R | Aimee Schwab-McCoy | regular | video | files |
| Teaching R with Peer Review and a New Rubric | Alon Friedman, Zachariah Beasley | regular | video | files |
| Framing transparency as an ethical responsibility in PhD data science | Casey Canfield | lightning | video | files |
| University Libraries for R: Supporting R useR!s | Maze Ndukum, Dorris Scott, Marcy Vana | lightning | video | files |
Time Series
| Title | Speaker(s) | Talk Type | YouTube | Materials |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LDATS: Latent Dirichlet Allocation Coupled with Time Series Analyses | Juniper Simonis | regular | video | files |
| muHVT: Case based computational geometry modeling toolkit using R | Zubin Dowlaty | regular | video | files |
| An online scheduling approach for distributed additive manufacturing systems | Ícaro Agostino | lightning | video | files |
| ztsdb, a time-series DBMS for R users | Leonardo Silvestri | lightning | video | files |
Visualization
| Title | Speaker(s) | Talk Type | YouTube | Materials |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Doing Journalism with R | Benedict Witzenberger | regular | video | files |
| rtables | Gabriel Becker | regular | video | files |
| Visualization of missing data and imputations in time series | Steffen Moritz | lightning | video | files |
| Your slides are so extra! | Gerrick Aden-Buie | lightning | video | files |
| Improving accessibility in data visualizations created by ggplot2 | Christine Chai | poster | video | files |
Web Applications
| Title | Speaker(s) | Talk Type | YouTube | Materials |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Manage your Shiny app users | Alexander Matrunich | regular | video | files |
| shi18ny: Internationalization for Shiny Apps | Juan Pablo Marin Diaz | regular | video | files |
| Cybersecurity risk assessment with R | Corey Neskey | lightning | video | files |
| metashiny: build Shiny apps with a Shiny app | Bo Wang | lightning | video | files |
| Very Easy Web Scraping with ralger | Mohamed El Fodil Ihaddaden | lightning | video | files |