Join our workshop on Using LLMs with ellmer, which is a part of our workshops for Ukraine series!
Here’s some more info:
Title: Using LLMs with ellmer
Date: Friday, June 13th, 18:00 – 20:00 CEST (Rome, Berlin, Paris timezone)
Speaker: Hadley Wickham is Chief Scientist at Posit PBC, winner of the 2019 COPSS award, and a member of the R Foundation. He builds tools (both computational and cognitive) to make data science easier, faster, and more fun. His work includes packages for data science (like the tidyverse, which includes ggplot2, dplyr, and tidyr)and principled software development (e.g. roxygen2, testthat, and pkgdown). He is also a writer, educator, and speaker promoting the use of R for data science. Learn more on his website, <http://hadley.nz>.
Description: Join us for an engaging, hands-on hackathon workshop where you’ll learn to use large language models (LLMs) from R with the ellmer (https://ellmer.tidyverse.org) package. In this 2-hour session, we’ll combine theory with practical exercises to help you create AI-driven solutions—no extensive preparation needed!
## What you’ll learn:
– A quick intro to LLMs: what they’re good at and where they struggle
– How to use ellmer with different model providers (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google Gemini, and others)
– Effective prompt design strategies and practical applications for your work
– Function calling: how to let LLMs use R functions for tasks they can’t handle well
– Extracting structured data from text, images, and video using LLMs
## What you’ll need:
– A laptop with R installed
– The development version of ellmer (`pak::pak(“tidyverse/ellmer”))`
– An account with either Claude (cheap) or Google Gemini (free).
Follow the instructions at <github.com/hadley/workshop-llm-hackathon> to get setup.
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?
- Go to https://bit.ly/3wvwMA6 or https://bit.ly/4aD5LMC or https://bit.ly/3PFxtNA and donate at least 20 euro. Feel free to donate more if you can, all proceeds go directly to support Ukraine.
- 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?
- Go to https://bit.ly/3wvwMA6 or https://bit.ly/4aD5LMC or https://bit.ly/3PFxtNA and donate at least 20 euro (or 17 GBP or 20 USD or 800 UAH). Feel free to donate more if you can, all proceeds go to support Ukraine!
- 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!