Author: Dariia Mykhailyshyna

PhD Student in Economics at the University of Bologna

Dealing with Duplicate Data in R workshop

Join our workshop on Dealing with Duplicate Data in R, which is a part of our workshops for Ukraine series! 


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Title:  Dealing with Duplicate Data in R

Date: Thursday, April 25th, 18:00 – 20:00 CET (Rome, Berlin, Paris timezone)

Speaker: Erin Grand works as a freelancer and Data Scientist at TRAILS to Wellness. Before TRAILS, she worked as a Data Scientist at Uncommon Schools, Crisis Text Line, and a software programmer at NASA. In the distant past, Erin researched star formation and taught introductory courses in astronomy and physics at the University of Maryland. In her free time, Erin enjoys reading, Scottish country dancing, and singing loudly to musical theatre.

Description: Maintaining high data quality is essential for accurate analyses and decision-making. Unfortunately, high data quality is often hard to come by. This talk will focus on some “how-tos” of cleaning data and removing duplicates to enhance data integrity. We’ll go over common data quality issues, how to use the {{janitor}} package to identify and remove duplicates, and business practices that can help prevent data issues from happening in the first place.


Minimal registration fee: 20 euro (or 20 USD or 800 UAH)



Please note that the registration confirmation is sent 1 day before the workshop to all registered participants rather than immediately after registration


How can I register?



  • Save your donation receipt (after the donation is processed, there is an option to enter your email address on the website to which the donation receipt is sent)

  • Fill in the registration form, attaching a screenshot of a donation receipt (please attach the screenshot of the donation receipt that was emailed to you rather than the page you see after donation).

If you are not personally interested in attending, you can also contribute by sponsoring a participation of a student, who will then be able to participate for free. If you choose to sponsor a student, all proceeds will also go directly to organisations working in Ukraine. You can either sponsor a particular student or you can leave it up to us so that we can allocate the sponsored place to students who have signed up for the waiting list.


How can I sponsor a student?


  • Save your donation receipt (after the donation is processed, there is an option to enter your email address on the website to which the donation receipt is sent)

  • Fill in the sponsorship form, attaching the screenshot of the donation receipt (please attach the screenshot of the donation receipt that was emailed to you rather than the page you see after the donation). You can indicate whether you want to sponsor a particular student or we can allocate this spot ourselves to the students from the waiting list. You can also indicate whether you prefer us to prioritize students from developing countries when assigning place(s) that you sponsored.


If you are a university student and cannot afford the registration fee, you can also sign up for the waiting list here. (Note that you are not guaranteed to participate by signing up for the waiting list).



You can also find more information about this workshop series,  a schedule of our future workshops as well as a list of our past workshops which you can get the recordings & materials here.


Looking forward to seeing you during the workshop!










 




Effective Data Visualization in R in Scientific Contexts workshop

Join our workshop on Effective Data Visualization in R in Scientific Contexts, which is a part of our workshops for Ukraine series! 

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Title: Effective Data Visualization in R in Scientific Contexts

Date: Thursday, April 10th, 18:00 – 20:00 CET (Rome, Berlin, Paris timezone)

Speaker: Christian Gebhard is a specialist in medical genetics. His daily practice of communicating complex scientific facts to both laypersons and healthcare professionals has fostered a deep passion for clear information presentation and effective data visualization. Striving for both clarity and reproducibility, he primarily utilizes R and ggplot2 to create impactful and accessible visualization of scientific data.

Description: The workshop will start by establishing a structured approach to transforming complex data into clear, informative visual representations. We’ll address common challenges and visualization pitfalls in different presentation formats. This part is applicable across different scientific fields and independent of visualization tools. The second part applies those principles to real-world examples using R and ggplot2. Participants will gain hands-on experience applying the learned principles to improve data communication in various presentation settings.


Minimal registration fee: 20 euro (or 20 USD or 800 UAH)



Please note that the registration confirmation is sent 1 day before the workshop to all registered participants rather than immediately after registration


How can I register?



  • Save your donation receipt (after the donation is processed, there is an option to enter your email address on the website to which the donation receipt is sent)

  • Fill in the registration form, attaching a screenshot of a donation receipt (please attach the screenshot of the donation receipt that was emailed to you rather than the page you see after donation).

If you are not personally interested in attending, you can also contribute by sponsoring a participation of a student, who will then be able to participate for free. If you choose to sponsor a student, all proceeds will also go directly to organisations working in Ukraine. You can either sponsor a particular student or you can leave it up to us so that we can allocate the sponsored place to students who have signed up for the waiting list.


How can I sponsor a student?


  • Save your donation receipt (after the donation is processed, there is an option to enter your email address on the website to which the donation receipt is sent)

  • Fill in the sponsorship form, attaching the screenshot of the donation receipt (please attach the screenshot of the donation receipt that was emailed to you rather than the page you see after the donation). You can indicate whether you want to sponsor a particular student or we can allocate this spot ourselves to the students from the waiting list. You can also indicate whether you prefer us to prioritize students from developing countries when assigning place(s) that you sponsored.


If you are a university student and cannot afford the registration fee, you can also sign up for the waiting list here. (Note that you are not guaranteed to participate by signing up for the waiting list).



You can also find more information about this workshop series,  a schedule of our future workshops as well as a list of our past workshops which you can get the recordings & materials here.


Looking forward to seeing you during the workshop!










 



Devops for Data Scientists (R & Python) workshop

Join our workshop on Devops for Data Scientists (R & Python), which is a part of our workshops for Ukraine series! 


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Title: Devops for Data Scientists (R & Python)

Date: Thursday, April 3rd, 18:00 – 20:00 CET (Rome, Berlin, Paris timezone)

Speaker: Rika Gorn is a Senior Platform Engineer at Posit where she helps customers and organizations create infrastructure for data analytics and data science. Her background is in data science and data engineering. 

Description: In this workshop we will learn the key principles of DevOps and problems which it intends to solve for data scientists. We will discuss how DevOps practices such as CI/CD enhance collaboration, automation, and reproducibility. We will learn common workflows for environment management, package management, containerization, monitoring & logging, and version control. Participants will get hands-on experience with a variety of tools including Docker, Github Actions, and APIs.

Minimal registration fee: 20 euro (or 20 USD or 800 UAH)



Please note that the registration confirmation is sent 1 day before the workshop to all registered participants rather than immediately after registration


How can I register?



  • Save your donation receipt (after the donation is processed, there is an option to enter your email address on the website to which the donation receipt is sent)

  • Fill in the registration form, attaching a screenshot of a donation receipt (please attach the screenshot of the donation receipt that was emailed to you rather than the page you see after donation).

If you are not personally interested in attending, you can also contribute by sponsoring a participation of a student, who will then be able to participate for free. If you choose to sponsor a student, all proceeds will also go directly to organisations working in Ukraine. You can either sponsor a particular student or you can leave it up to us so that we can allocate the sponsored place to students who have signed up for the waiting list.


How can I sponsor a student?


  • Save your donation receipt (after the donation is processed, there is an option to enter your email address on the website to which the donation receipt is sent)

  • Fill in the sponsorship form, attaching the screenshot of the donation receipt (please attach the screenshot of the donation receipt that was emailed to you rather than the page you see after the donation). You can indicate whether you want to sponsor a particular student or we can allocate this spot ourselves to the students from the waiting list. You can also indicate whether you prefer us to prioritize students from developing countries when assigning place(s) that you sponsored.


If you are a university student and cannot afford the registration fee, you can also sign up for the waiting list here. (Note that you are not guaranteed to participate by signing up for the waiting list).



You can also find more information about this workshop series,  a schedule of our future workshops as well as a list of our past workshops which you can get the recordings & materials here.


Looking forward to seeing you during the workshop!










 



Frame-by-Frame Modeling and Validation of NFL geospatial data using gganimate in R workshop

Join our workshop on Frame-by-Frame Modeling and Validation of NFL geospatial data using gganimate in R, which is a part of our workshops for Ukraine series! 


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Title: Frame-by-Frame Modeling and Validation of NFL geospatial data using gganimate in R

Date: Thursday, March 27th, 18:00 – 20:00 CET (Rome, Berlin, Paris timezone)

Speaker: Pablo L. Landeras has an Applied Mathematics BsC from ITAM (Mexico City). His background as both an athlete and an analyst has shaped his approach to sports research, blending firsthand experience with cutting-edge data science to drive innovation. Today, he is a Data Scientist at Zelus Analytics, where he specializes in R&D in both ice hockey and basketball. 

His career has spanned a variety of projects—from public health initiatives to data-driven scouting for soccer teams like FC Toluca. Before joining Zelus, he worked as a Data Scientist at Coca-Cola.

Description:  This talk will explore the validation and visualization of spatio-temporal data in sports, focusing on the NFL tracking dataset and the application of frame-by-frame modeling. After a brief introduction to spatio-temporal data and its significance, we’ll highlight common errors in tracking datasets, such as missing data and implausible trajectories, emphasizing the importance of validation. The session will delve into the capabilities of gganimate, showcasing how it transforms static plots into dynamic animations to validate data and enhance storytelling. We’ll provide an overview of the NFL tracking dataset, its structure, and key challenges like data noise and synchronization issues. Through step-by-step examples, participants will learn to build animations that visualize player movements, pass probabilities, and pass rush models, while using  techniques to identify anomalies and combine multiple data sources.

Minimal registration fee: 20 euro (or 20 USD or 800 UAH)




Please note that the registration confirmation is sent 1 day before the workshop to all registered participants rather than immediately after registration


How can I register?



  • Save your donation receipt (after the donation is processed, there is an option to enter your email address on the website to which the donation receipt is sent)

  • Fill in the registration form, attaching a screenshot of a donation receipt (please attach the screenshot of the donation receipt that was emailed to you rather than the page you see after donation).

If you are not personally interested in attending, you can also contribute by sponsoring a participation of a student, who will then be able to participate for free. If you choose to sponsor a student, all proceeds will also go directly to organisations working in Ukraine. You can either sponsor a particular student or you can leave it up to us so that we can allocate the sponsored place to students who have signed up for the waiting list.


How can I sponsor a student?


  • Save your donation receipt (after the donation is processed, there is an option to enter your email address on the website to which the donation receipt is sent)

  • Fill in the sponsorship form, attaching the screenshot of the donation receipt (please attach the screenshot of the donation receipt that was emailed to you rather than the page you see after the donation). You can indicate whether you want to sponsor a particular student or we can allocate this spot ourselves to the students from the waiting list. You can also indicate whether you prefer us to prioritize students from developing countries when assigning place(s) that you sponsored.


If you are a university student and cannot afford the registration fee, you can also sign up for the waiting list here. (Note that you are not guaranteed to participate by signing up for the waiting list).



You can also find more information about this workshop series,  a schedule of our future workshops as well as a list of our past workshops which you can get the recordings & materials here.


Looking forward to seeing you during the workshop!










 


Introduction to Empirical Macroeconomics with R workshop

Join our workshop on Introduction to Empirical Macroeconomics with R, which is a part of our workshops for Ukraine series! 


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Title: Introduction to Empirical Macroeconomics with R

Date: Thursday, March 20th, 14:00 – 16:00 CET (Rome, Berlin, Paris timezone)

Speaker: Xiaolei (Adam) Wang is an Economics PhD student at the University of Melbourne, his research focuses on Bayesian econometrics. He is the author of the R package bsvarSIGNs, which implements algorithms for macroeconomic analyses with C++ code.

Description: Structural Vector Autoregressions (SVARs) are multivariate time series models commonly used in empirical macroeconomics. By imposing a minimal set of assumptions, such as sign restrictions, these models allow us to recover meaningful economic shocks and their dynamic causal effects from real data. This workshop will provide a gentle introduction to SVARs and their estimation techniques. Then, we will show how to apply these models with a simple workflow using the R package “bsvarSIGNs”. No prior knowledge of macroeconomics is required, any R user interested in analysing macro data can benefit from this workshop.

Minimal registration fee: 20 euro (or 20 USD or 800 UAH)





Please note that the registration confirmation is sent 1 day before the workshop to all registered participants rather than immediately after registration


How can I register?



  • Save your donation receipt (after the donation is processed, there is an option to enter your email address on the website to which the donation receipt is sent)

  • Fill in the registration form, attaching a screenshot of a donation receipt (please attach the screenshot of the donation receipt that was emailed to you rather than the page you see after donation).

If you are not personally interested in attending, you can also contribute by sponsoring a participation of a student, who will then be able to participate for free. If you choose to sponsor a student, all proceeds will also go directly to organisations working in Ukraine. You can either sponsor a particular student or you can leave it up to us so that we can allocate the sponsored place to students who have signed up for the waiting list.


How can I sponsor a student?


  • Save your donation receipt (after the donation is processed, there is an option to enter your email address on the website to which the donation receipt is sent)

  • Fill in the sponsorship form, attaching the screenshot of the donation receipt (please attach the screenshot of the donation receipt that was emailed to you rather than the page you see after the donation). You can indicate whether you want to sponsor a particular student or we can allocate this spot ourselves to the students from the waiting list. You can also indicate whether you prefer us to prioritize students from developing countries when assigning place(s) that you sponsored.


If you are a university student and cannot afford the registration fee, you can also sign up for the waiting list here. (Note that you are not guaranteed to participate by signing up for the waiting list).



You can also find more information about this workshop series,  a schedule of our future workshops as well as a list of our past workshops which you can get the recordings & materials here.


Looking forward to seeing you during the workshop!










 

Hitting web APIs with {httr2} in R workshop

Join our workshop on Hitting web APIs with {httr2} in R , which is a part of our workshops for Ukraine series! 


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Title: Hitting web APIs with {httr2} in R 

Date: Thursday, March 13th, 18:00 – 20:00 CET (Rome, Berlin, Paris timezone) 

Speaker: Ted Laderas is the Director of Training and Community at the Data Science Lab at Fred Hutch Cancer Center. He has taught R and Python for over 10 years.  He believes that research should not be lonely, and building communities of practice in science and research that are psychologically safe and inclusive are the key to doing better, more robust science.

Description: Do the words “Web API” sound intimidating to you? This talk is a gentle introduction to what Web APIs are and how to get data out of them using the {httr2}, {jsonlite}. and {tidyjson} packages. You’ll learn how to request data from an endpoint and get the data out. We’ll do this using an API that gives us facts about cats. By the end of this talk, web APIs will seem much less intimidating and you will be empowered to access data from them.

Minimal registration fee: 20 euro (or 20 USD or 800 UAH)




Please note that the registration confirmation is sent 1 day before the workshop to all registered participants rather than immediately after registration


How can I register?



  • Save your donation receipt (after the donation is processed, there is an option to enter your email address on the website to which the donation receipt is sent)

  • Fill in the registration form, attaching a screenshot of a donation receipt (please attach the screenshot of the donation receipt that was emailed to you rather than the page you see after donation).

If you are not personally interested in attending, you can also contribute by sponsoring a participation of a student, who will then be able to participate for free. If you choose to sponsor a student, all proceeds will also go directly to organisations working in Ukraine. You can either sponsor a particular student or you can leave it up to us so that we can allocate the sponsored place to students who have signed up for the waiting list.


How can I sponsor a student?


  • Save your donation receipt (after the donation is processed, there is an option to enter your email address on the website to which the donation receipt is sent)

  • Fill in the sponsorship form, attaching the screenshot of the donation receipt (please attach the screenshot of the donation receipt that was emailed to you rather than the page you see after the donation). You can indicate whether you want to sponsor a particular student or we can allocate this spot ourselves to the students from the waiting list. You can also indicate whether you prefer us to prioritize students from developing countries when assigning place(s) that you sponsored.


If you are a university student and cannot afford the registration fee, you can also sign up for the waiting list here. (Note that you are not guaranteed to participate by signing up for the waiting list).



You can also find more information about this workshop series,  a schedule of our future workshops as well as a list of our past workshops which you can get the recordings & materials here.


Looking forward to seeing you during the workshop!










 

Decomposing within and between person effects in longitudinal data with SEM in R workshop

Join our workshop on Decomposing within and between person effects in longitudinal data with SEM in R, which is a part of our workshops for Ukraine series! 


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Title: Decomposing within and between person effects in longitudinal data with SEM in R

Date: Thursday, February 27th, 18:00 – 20:00 CET (Rome, Berlin, Paris timezone)

Speaker: Dustin Haraden, PhD is a clinical psychologist interested in examining risk factors for depression in youth with an emphasis on sleep, circadian rhythms and pubertal development. He has a special interest in measurement, statistics and open science as it relates to research methods in psychology. Currently, Dustin is an assistant professor in psychology at the Rochester Institute of Technology.

Description: This workshop will introduce problems that arise when researchers fail to consider within vs. between sources of variance. We will explore the implementation of the Random Intercept Cross-Lagged Panel Model through model identification, comparing model fit, interpreting parameters and reporting results.

Minimal registration fee: 20 euro (or 20 USD or 800 UAH)



How can I register?



  • Save your donation receipt (after the donation is processed, there is an option to enter your email address on the website to which the donation receipt is sent)

  • Fill in the registration form, attaching a screenshot of a donation receipt (please attach the screenshot of the donation receipt that was emailed to you rather than the page you see after donation).

If you are not personally interested in attending, you can also contribute by sponsoring a participation of a student, who will then be able to participate for free. If you choose to sponsor a student, all proceeds will also go directly to organisations working in Ukraine. You can either sponsor a particular student or you can leave it up to us so that we can allocate the sponsored place to students who have signed up for the waiting list.


How can I sponsor a student?


  • Save your donation receipt (after the donation is processed, there is an option to enter your email address on the website to which the donation receipt is sent)

  • Fill in the sponsorship form, attaching the screenshot of the donation receipt (please attach the screenshot of the donation receipt that was emailed to you rather than the page you see after the donation). You can indicate whether you want to sponsor a particular student or we can allocate this spot ourselves to the students from the waiting list. You can also indicate whether you prefer us to prioritize students from developing countries when assigning place(s) that you sponsored.


If you are a university student and cannot afford the registration fee, you can also sign up for the waiting list here. (Note that you are not guaranteed to participate by signing up for the waiting list).



You can also find more information about this workshop series,  a schedule of our future workshops as well as a list of our past workshops which you can get the recordings & materials here.


Looking forward to seeing you during the workshop!


 

Tabular ML in R: an overview of tidymodels in R for tabularized data workshop

Join our workshop on Tabular ML in R: an overview of tidymodels in R for tabularized data, which is a part of our workshops for Ukraine series! 


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Title: Tabular ML in R: an overview of tidymodels in R for tabularized data


Date: Thursday, February 20th, 18:00 – 20:00 CET (Rome, Berlin, Paris timezone)


Speaker: Frank Hull is currently Director of Analytics at ACES. Frank oversees ACES’ Data Science department, which works directly with Portfolio Strategy, Portfolio Modeling, Transmission, Resource Planning, Fundamentals, and Trading & Operations. Frank leads & advises various initiatives such as weather-driven stochastics (WDS), long-term load forecasting (LTLF), peak prediction services (PPS), dark calm (DC) and extreme weather event (EWE) analyses. Frank also hosts internal R meetings for programmers at ACES. Prior to his current role, Frank held various roles related to data science, systems, modeling, and quantitative analysis at AES & ACES. Frank holds a degree in physics with a concentration in engineering physics.


Description: In this workshop, we will 1) discuss what we mean by tabular ml in R, 2) why it’s important, 3) when can it be applicable, and 4) how to setup a robust pipeline for iterative machine learning workflows. We will start off by defining and discussing the prevalence of tabular data across sectors. Followed by data exploration to understand and interpret any known relationships with our example dataset. Lastly, we will establish key practices within the

tidymodels ecosystem to create a predictive framework and benchmark various ML engines.


Minimal registration fee: 20 euro (or 20 USD or 800 UAH)



How can I register?



  • Save your donation receipt (after the donation is processed, there is an option to enter your email address on the website to which the donation receipt is sent)

  • Fill in the registration form, attaching a screenshot of a donation receipt (please attach the screenshot of the donation receipt that was emailed to you rather than the page you see after donation).

If you are not personally interested in attending, you can also contribute by sponsoring a participation of a student, who will then be able to participate for free. If you choose to sponsor a student, all proceeds will also go directly to organisations working in Ukraine. You can either sponsor a particular student or you can leave it up to us so that we can allocate the sponsored place to students who have signed up for the waiting list.


How can I sponsor a student?


  • Save your donation receipt (after the donation is processed, there is an option to enter your email address on the website to which the donation receipt is sent)

  • Fill in the sponsorship form, attaching the screenshot of the donation receipt (please attach the screenshot of the donation receipt that was emailed to you rather than the page you see after the donation). You can indicate whether you want to sponsor a particular student or we can allocate this spot ourselves to the students from the waiting list. You can also indicate whether you prefer us to prioritize students from developing countries when assigning place(s) that you sponsored.


If you are a university student and cannot afford the registration fee, you can also sign up for the waiting list here. (Note that you are not guaranteed to participate by signing up for the waiting list).



You can also find more information about this workshop series,  a schedule of our future workshops as well as a list of our past workshops which you can get the recordings & materials here.


Looking forward to seeing you during the workshop!










 

Spatial modelling with GAMs in R workshop

Join our workshop on Spatial modelling with GAMs in R, which is a part of our workshops for Ukraine series! 


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Title: Spatial modelling with GAMs in R


Date: Thursday, January 30th, 18:00 – 20:00 CET (Rome, Berlin, Paris timezone) 


Speaker: Sophie Lee is a statistician and educator who teaches a range of statistics and R coding courses to non-statisticians. Her goal is to provide accessible, engaging training to prove that statistics does not need to be scary! She has a PhD in Spatio-temporal Epidemiology from LSHTM and is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. Her research interests lie in spatial data analysis, planetary health, and Bayesian modelling.


Description: When modelling spatial data we are generally unable to use traditional modelling approaches, such as generalised linear models (GLMs), as the assumption that observations are independent of one another may be invalid. This is due to underlying similarities, including unobservable behaviours, climate, and other characteristics, that are shared between observations close to one another. There are extensions of GLMs that can be used to overcome this lack of independence between observations, often with the inclusion of structured random effects, that try to take account of the underlying spatial relationships. The issue arises when deciding how to structure these spatial random effects: how close is close enough to consider observations no longer independent?

This workshop introduces generalised additive models (GAMs) as a method for generating the underlying spatial structure needed to define spatially structured random effects. We will see how penalised smoothing splines can be applied to coordinates to generate a spatial plane with minimal user assumptions. This ensures the spatial model is relevant and unique to the setting being studied. Using the mgcv package in R, we will apply this approach to real-world data, incorporating the flexible spatial structure into a random effects model, which then can be interpreted similarly to any other spatial model.


Minimal registration fee: 20 euro (or 20 USD or 800 UAH)

Please note that the registration confirmation email will be sent 1 day before the workshop.

How can I register?



  • Save your donation receipt (after the donation is processed, there is an option to enter your email address on the website to which the donation receipt is sent)

  • Fill in the registration form, attaching a screenshot of a donation receipt (please attach the screenshot of the donation receipt that was emailed to you rather than the page you see after donation).

If you are not personally interested in attending, you can also contribute by sponsoring a participation of a student, who will then be able to participate for free. If you choose to sponsor a student, all proceeds will also go directly to organisations working in Ukraine. You can either sponsor a particular student or you can leave it up to us so that we can allocate the sponsored place to students who have signed up for the waiting list.


How can I sponsor a student?


  • Save your donation receipt (after the donation is processed, there is an option to enter your email address on the website to which the donation receipt is sent)

  • Fill in the sponsorship form, attaching the screenshot of the donation receipt (please attach the screenshot of the donation receipt that was emailed to you rather than the page you see after the donation). You can indicate whether you want to sponsor a particular student or we can allocate this spot ourselves to the students from the waiting list. You can also indicate whether you prefer us to prioritize students from developing countries when assigning place(s) that you sponsored.


If you are a university student and cannot afford the registration fee, you can also sign up for the waiting list here. (Note that you are not guaranteed to participate by signing up for the waiting list).



You can also find more information about this workshop series,  a schedule of our future workshops as well as a list of our past workshops which you can get the recordings & materials here.


Looking forward to seeing you during the workshop!




Latent Growth Curve Models using the Lavaan Package in R workshop

Join our workshop on Latent Growth Curve Models using the Lavaan Package in R, which is a part of our workshops for Ukraine series! 


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Title: Latent Growth Curve Models using the Lavaan Package in R

Date: Thursday, January 16th, 18:00 – 20:00 CET (Rome, Berlin, Paris timezone)

Speaker: Rogier Kievit is Professor of Developmental Neuroscience at the Donders Institute in Nijmegen, where he leads the Lifespan Cognitive Dynamics Lab (https://lifespancognitivedynamics.com/). He studies changes in cognitive abilities across the lifespan using multivariate techniques including factor analysis, growth curve models, mixture models and timeseries analysis. He using R almost every day, especially Lavaan and ggplot, and has contributed to multiple packages (e.g. ggrain, regsem, iced). If you send him exciting longitudinal data there is a real risk he may abandon other more urgent tasks.

Description: Rogier Kievit is Professor of Developmental Neuroscience at the Donders Institute in Nijmegen, where he leads the Lifespan Cognitive Dynamics Lab (https://lifespancognitivedynamics.com/). He studies changes in cognitive abilities across the lifespan using multivariate techniques including factor analysis, growth curve models, mixture models and timeseries analysis. He using R almost every day, especially Lavaan and ggplot, and has contributed to multiple packages (e.g. ggrain, regsem, iced). If you send him exciting longitudinal data there is a real risk he may abandon other more urgent tasks.


Minimal registration fee: 20 euro (or 20 USD or 800 UAH)



Please note that the registration confirmation email will be sent 1 day before the workshop.


How can I register?



  • Save your donation receipt (after the donation is processed, there is an option to enter your email address on the website to which the donation receipt is sent)

  • Fill in the registration form, attaching a screenshot of a donation receipt (please attach the screenshot of the donation receipt that was emailed to you rather than the page you see after donation).

If you are not personally interested in attending, you can also contribute by sponsoring a participation of a student, who will then be able to participate for free. If you choose to sponsor a student, all proceeds will also go directly to organisations working in Ukraine. You can either sponsor a particular student or you can leave it up to us so that we can allocate the sponsored place to students who have signed up for the waiting list.


How can I sponsor a student?


  • Save your donation receipt (after the donation is processed, there is an option to enter your email address on the website to which the donation receipt is sent)

  • Fill in the sponsorship form, attaching the screenshot of the donation receipt (please attach the screenshot of the donation receipt that was emailed to you rather than the page you see after the donation). You can indicate whether you want to sponsor a particular student or we can allocate this spot ourselves to the students from the waiting list. You can also indicate whether you prefer us to prioritize students from developing countries when assigning place(s) that you sponsored.


If you are a university student and cannot afford the registration fee, you can also sign up for the waiting list here. (Note that you are not guaranteed to participate by signing up for the waiting list).



You can also find more information about this workshop series,  a schedule of our future workshops as well as a list of our past workshops which you can get the recordings & materials here.


Looking forward to seeing you during the workshop!