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.

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.

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.

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!

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!

This talk will showcase why you should visualise data and present some guidelines for making better charts to improve decision-making, before we discuss examples of good and bad charts.