Talks

Slides and abstracts for talks and workshops.

Book publishing as a scholarly activity

This talk will share my personal experiences of writing and publishing a book as a scholarly activity. It will cover engaging with publishers, contracts, the writing process, and the benefits and challenges of book writing as an early career academic.

September 4, 2025

Edinburgh, UK

By Nicola Rennie in Conference

Accessibility in official statistics

Accessibility ensures that all individuals, can access, understand, and use information effectively, and so it is a crucial element to consider when creating official outputs. This talk will include practical tips for evaluating and improving accessibility of statistical outputs created using open source software.

September 4, 2025

Edinburgh, UK

By Nicola Rennie in Conference

Introduction to Julia for R Users

R is widely used for data analysis, but Julia offers high performance with a user-friendly syntax, making it an appealing alternative. This talk explores how R users can benefit from Julia, get started with it, and integrate it with R.

September 2, 2025

Edinburgh, UK

By Nicola Rennie in Conference

Interactive charts in R and beyond

In this session, we’ll be talking about different ways that you can make interactive charts using R, or a combination of R and other tools. You’ll see examples of creating tooltips and dropdown menus - all browser-based, no server required!

May 15, 2025

Edinburgh, UK

By Nicola Rennie in Meetup

Introduction to Git and GitHub for R Users

In this workshop, attendees will learn how to use GitHub in conjunction with RStudio. This session is for you if you don’t have any experience of Git or GitHub but you’d like to get started!