Talks

Slides and abstracts for talks and workshops.

Teaching statistics interactively with webR

In this talk, I’ll describe ways that teaching materials can be adjusted and made more engaging with live coding examples. It will include a demonstration of using webR to teach a simple statistical concept showing its potential to revolutionise the way we teach data science.

Using {tidymodels} to detect heart murmurs

This talk will give a brief overview of the {tidymodels} framework for machine learning, discuss the extraction of time series features, demonstrate the process of fitting machine learning models in R to heart sound recordings, and consider different approaches to model evaluation.

Creating your data science portfolio

Creating a data science portfolio can help you to develop your skills, and well as showcase them to the wider world. In this talk, we’ll discuss how to build a portfolio with #TidyTuesday.