rstudio::conf 2020: Summary

# rstudio::conf 2020: Summary
### Bruna Wundervald
### February, 2020

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# What is the conference?

- It's a conference about all things `R` & `RStudio` 
  - 2 days of workshops + 2 days of conference
  - Includes various social moments: party, themed lunches, R-Ladies
  reception

## Why go?
  - Networking & getting in touch with the community  
  - Improving on your `R`/programming skills  
  - Fun

*Videos of the talks: https://resources.rstudio.com/*

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# ✨   Highlights   ✨

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# Talks

- JJ Allaire and [The Open Source Software for Data Science](): 
  the origin & philosophy of RStudio as a company and a community 
  
  - Will Chase and [the Glamour of Graphics](https://www.williamrchase.com/slides/assets/player/KeynoteDHTMLPlayer.html):
  about how details like colours, titles, scales, and fonts can make the whole
  difference in a plot
  
  
  - [Object of type 'closure' is not subsettable](https://github.com/jennybc/debugging#readme), by Jenny Brian: 
  general debugging methods in `R`

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# Packages

- My favorite, [{tune}](https://tidymodels.github.io/tune/): 
  for tuning algorithms, it belongs to the `tidymodels` ecossystem 
    - Includes Bayesian Optimization options
    
  - [What's new in TensorFlow for `R`](https://dfalbel.github.io/talks/2020-01-rstudio-conf/), by Daniel Falbel: 
   getting very good on the Deep Learning side 
    - Includes `tfprobability` for TensorFlow Probability
    
  - [Interactivity and Programming in the tidyverse](https://speakerdeck.com/lionelhenry/interactivity-and-programming-in-the-tidyverse), by Lionel Henry: advances on tidy eval and the `rlang` package

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