Author: Dariia Mykhailyshyna

PhD Student in Economics at the University of Bologna

Introduction to Causal Machine Learning estimators in R

Join our workshop on Introduction to Causal Machine Learning estimators in R, which is a part of our workshops for Ukraine series! 

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Title: Introduction to Causal Machine Learning estimators in R

Date: Thursday, April 11th, 18:00 – 20:00 CET (Rome, Berlin, Paris timezone)

Speaker: Michael Knaus is Assistant Professor of “Data Science in Economics” at the University of Tübingen. He is working at the intersection of causal inference and machine learning for policy evaluation and recommendation.

Description: You want to learn about Double Machine Learning and/or Causal Forests for causal effect estimation but are hesitant to start because of the heavy formulas involved? Or you are already using them and curious to (better) understand what happens under the hood? In this course, we take a code first, formulas second approach. You will see how to manually replicate the output of the powerful DoubleML and grf packages using at most five lines of code and nothing more than OLS. After seeing that everything boils down to simple recipes, the involved formulas will look more friendly. The course establishes therefore how things work and gives references to further understand why things work.

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!



Creating R packages for data analysis and reproducible research workshop

Join our workshop on Creating R packages for data analysis and reproducible research, which is a part of our workshops for Ukraine series! 


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Title: Creating R packages for data analysis and reproducible research

Date: Thursday, February 29th, 18:00 – 20:00 CET (Rome, Berlin, Paris timezone)

Speaker: Fred Boehm is a biostatistics and translational medicine researcher living in Michigan, USA. His research focuses on statistical questions that arise in human genetics studies and their applications to clinical medicine and public health. He has extensive teaching experience as a statistics lecturer at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (https://www.wisc.edu) and as a workshop instructor for The Carpentries (https://carpentries.org/index.html). He enjoys spending time with his nieces and nephews and his two dogs. He also blogs (occasionally) at https://fboehm.us/blog/.

Description: Participants will learn to use functions from several packages, including `devtools` and `rrtools`, in the R ecosystem, while learning and adhering to practices to promote reproducible research. Participants will learn to create their own R packages for software development or data analysis. We will also motivate the need to follow reproducible research practices and will discuss strategies and open source tools.


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!


Modeling Non-Linear Relationships: An Introduction to Gaussian Process Regression in R and Stan workshop

Join our workshop on Modeling Non-Linear Relationships: An Introduction to Gaussian Process Regression in R and Stan, which is a part of our workshops for Ukraine series! 


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Title: Modeling Non-Linear Relationships: An Introduction to Gaussian Process Regression in R and Stan


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


Speaker: Jan Failenschmid is a Ph.D. candidate in Psychological Research Methods and Statistics at Tilburg University, Netherlands. His research focusses on studying and developing methods for modeling and analyzing non-linear trends and dynamics in psychological time-series and intensive longitudinal data. Given the scarcity of established theories about non-linear associations in Psychology, his work focusses mainly on non-parametric statistical techniques like Gaussian Processes, which make it possible to learn complex non-linear relationships from data while providing interpretable insights.


Description: This workshop will provide an introduction to Gaussian Process regression, a flexible and powerful Bayesian non-parametric technique, for modeling non-linear relationships in R and Stan. The Workshop will start by providing a brief introduction to Bayesian statistics, including the principles underlying Bayesian inference and its implementation in Stan. Building on this foundation, we will delve into Gaussian Processes, exploring their conceptual framework and practical applications. The final part of the workshop will feature hands-on examples illustrating different applications to the kinds of data found in the social and behavioral sciences.


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!

Factor Analysis in R workshop

Join our workshop on Factor Analysis in R, which is a part of our workshops for Ukraine series! 

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Title: Factor Analysis in R

Date: Thursday, February 1st, 18:00 – 20:00 CET (Rome, Berlin, Paris timezone)

Speaker: Gagan Atreya is a quantitative social scientist and data science consultant based in Los Angeles, California. He has graduate degrees in Experimental Psychology and Quantitative Political Science from The College of William & Mary in Virginia and The University of Minnesota respectively. He has multiple years of experience in data analysis and visualization in the social sciences – both as a researcher and a consultant with faculty and researchers around the world. You can find him in Bluesky at @gaganatreya.bsky.social.

Description: This workshop will go through the basics of Exploratory and Confirmatory Factor Analysis in the R programming language. Factor Analysis is a valuable statistical technique widely used in Psychology, Economics, Political Science, and related disciplines that allows us to uncover the underlying structure of our data by reducing it to coherent factors. The workshop will heavily (but not exclusively) utilize the “psych” and “lavaan” packages in R. Although open to everyone, a beginner level familiarity with R and some background/interest in survey data analysis will be ideal to make the most out of this workshop.

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!



Automating updates to dashboards on Shiny Server workshop

Join our workshop on Automating updates to dashboards on Shiny Server, which is a part of our workshops for Ukraine series! 

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Title: Automating updates to dashboards on Shiny Server

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

Speaker: Clinton Oyogo David is a data scientist with 7 years of experience currently working with Oxford Policy Management (OPM) under the Research and Evidence, data innovations team. Prior to joining OPM I was working at World Agroforestry Centre as a junior data scientist in the Spatial Data Science and Applied Learning Lab.

Description: In this workshop, we will talk about the configurations and set ups needed to have an automated update to R Shiny dashboards deployed on a shiny server. The talk will touch on GitHub webhooks, API (Django) and bash scripting. With the set-up in place one will not need to manually update the code on shiny server, a push event to github will be enough to have your changes to the code reflect on the dashboard in a matter of seconds.

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!

Customizing slides and documents using Quarto extensions workshop

Join our workshop on  Introduction to mixed frequency data models in R, which is a part of our workshops for Ukraine series! 


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Title: Customizing slides and documents using Quarto extensions

Date: Thursday, January 11th, 18:00 – 20:00 CET (Rome, Berlin, Paris timezone)

Speaker:Nicola Rennie is a Lecturer in Health Data Science based within the Centre for Health Informatics, Computing, and Statistics at Lancaster Medical School. Her research interests include applications of statistics and machine learning to healthcare and medicine, communicating data through visualisation, and understanding how we teach statistical concepts. Nicola also has experience in data science consultancy and collaborates closely with external research partners. She can often be found at data science meetups, presenting at conferences, and is the R-Ladies Lancaster chapter organiser.


Description: Quarto is an open-source scientific and technical publishing system that allows you to combine text with code to create fully reproducible documents in a variety of formats. The addition of custom styling to documents can make them look more professional and recognisable. In the first half of this workshop, we’ll look at ways to customise HTML outputs (including documents and revealjs slides) using CSS, and ways to customise PDF documents using LaTeX. In the second half, we’ll discuss the use of Quarto extensions as a way of sharing customised templates with others, demonstrate how to install and use extensions, and show the process of building your own custom style extension.


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!

Using ChatGPT for Exploratory Data Analysis with Python, R and prompting workshop

Join our workshop on Using ChatGPT for Exploratory Data Analysis with Python, R and prompting, which is a part of our workshops for Ukraine series! 


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Title:Using ChatGPT for Exploratory Data Analysis with Python, R and prompting


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


Speakers: Gábor Békés is an Associate Professor at the Department of Economics and Business of Central European University, a research fellow at KRTK in Hungary, and a research affiliate at CEPR. His research is focused on international economics; economic geography and applied IO, and was published among others by the Global Strategy Journal, Journal of International Economics, Regional Science and Urban Economics or Economic Policy and have authored commentary on VOXEU.org. His comprehensive textbook, Data Analysis for Business, Economics, and Policy with Gábor Kézdi was publsihed by Cambridge University Press in 2021.


Seth Stephens-Davidowitz is a data scientist and New York Times bestselling author. His 2017 book, Everybody Lies, on the secrets revealed in internet data, was a New York Times bestseller; a PBS NewsHour Book of the Year; and an Economist Book of the Year.  His 2022 book, Don’t Trust Your Gut, on how people can use data to best achieve their life goals, was excerpted in the New York Times, the Atlantic, and Wired.  Seth has worked as a data scientist at Google; a visiting lecturer at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania; and a contributing op-ed writer for the New York Times.  Seth has consulted for top companies.  He received his BA in philosophy, Phi Beta Kappa, from Stanford, and his PhD in economics from Harvard.  


Description: How can GenAI, like ChatGPT augment and speed up data exploration? Is it true that we no longer need coding skills? Or, instead, does ChatGPT hallucinate too much to be taken seriously? I will do a workshop with live prompting and coding to investigate.  I will experiment with two datasets shared ahead of the workshop.  The first comes from my Data Analysis textbook and is about football managers. Here I’ll see how close working with AI will get to what we have in the textbook, and compare codes written by us vs the machine. Second, I’ll work with a dataset I have no/little experience with and see how far it takes me. In this case, we will look at descriptive statistics, make graphs and tables, and work to improve a textual variable.  It will generate code and reports, and I’ll then check them on my laptop to see if they work. The process starts with Python but then I’ll proceed with R.


Seth Stephens-Davidowitz is writing a book in 30 days using ChatGPT’s Data Analysis.  The book is called Who Makes the NBA? and is a statistical analysis of what it takes to reach the top of basketball. Seth will illustrate his experience with one of the case studies he had worked on. The Workshop will end with Seth and Gabor chatting about their experiences in what works well


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!



















Introduction to mixed frequency data models in R workshop

Join our workshop on  Introduction to mixed frequency data models in R, which is a part of our workshops for Ukraine series! 


Here’s some more info: 

Title: Introduction to mixed frequency data models in R

Date: Thursday, December 14th, 18:00 – 20:00 CEST (Rome, Berlin, Paris timezone)

Speaker:Jonas Striaukas, Jonas is an assistant professor of statistics and finance and Marie Skłodowska-Curie Action fellow at the Copenhagen Business School, Department of Finance. His main research interests are econometrics/statistics and applications of machine learning methods to financial and macro econometrics. In particular, Jonas research interests are regularized regression models for mixed frequency data and factor-augmented sparse regression models. Before joining the Copenhagen Business School in 2022, he was a research fellow at the Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique—FNRS and Université Catholique de Louvain, where he carried out my PhD under the supervision of prof. Andrii Babii (UNC Chapel Hill) and prof. Eric Ghysels (UNC Chapel Hill).

Description: The course will cover statistical models for mixed frequency data analysis and their applications using R statistical software. First, we will look into classical mixed frequency, called MIDAS, regression models and their applications to nowcasting. We will then cover multivariate models such vector autoregression (VAR) and their application in mixed frequency data settings. Lastly, we will cover regularized MIDAS regressions and its extension to factor-augmented regression case.

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!









Using ChatGPT for Exploratory Data Analysis with Python, R and prompting

Join our workshop on Using ChatGPT for Exploratory Data Analysis with Python, R and prompting, which is a part of our workshops for Ukraine series! 


Here’s some more info: 


Title:Using ChatGPT for Exploratory Data Analysis with Python, R and prompting


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


Speaker: Gábor Békés is an Associate Professor at the Department of Economics and Business of Central European University, a research fellow at KRTK in Hungary, and a research affiliate at CEPR. His research is focused on international economics; economic geography and applied IO, and was published among others by the Global Strategy Journal, Journal of International Economics, Regional Science and Urban Economics or Economic Policy and have authored commentary on VOXEU.org. His comprehensive textbook, Data Analysis for Business, Economics, and Policy with Gábor Kézdi was publsihed by Cambridge University Press in 2021. 


Description: How can GenAI, like ChatGPT augment and speed up data exploration? Is it true that we no longer need coding skills? Or, instead, does ChatGPT hallucinate too much to be taken seriously? I will do a workshop with live prompting and coding to investigate.  I will experiment with two datasets shared ahead of the workshop.  The first comes from my Data Analysis textbook and is about football managers. Here I’ll see how close working with AI will get to what we have in the textbook, and compare codes written by us vs the machine. Second, I’ll work with a dataset I have no/little experience with and see how far it takes me. In this case, we will look at descriptive statistics, make graphs and tables, and work to improve a textual variable.  It will generate code and reports, and I’ll then check them on my laptop to see if they work. The process starts with Python but then I’ll proceed with R.


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!


















Using Spatial Data with R Shiny workshop

Join our workshop on Using Spatial Data with R Shiny, which is a part of our workshops for Ukraine series! 

Here’s some more info: 

Title: Using Spatial Data with R Shiny

Date: Thursday, November 23rd, 18:00 – 20:00 CET (Rome, Berlin, Paris timezone)

Speaker: Michael C. Rubin, is an Engineer, MIT Data Scientist and Co-Founder of Open Digital Agriculture (former ODAPES), a Start-up with the mission of democratizing Digital Agriculture. Open Digital Agriculture leverages R-Shiny, along with GIS technology and Artificial Intelligence to include the overlooked 540 Million smallholder farmers into the digital transformation. Michael was a 2 times speaker at the global R-Shiny conference.

Description: This workshop is about how to use R-Shiny in the context of geographic information systems (GIS). We will initially cover the R Leaflet package and learn how geographic information, from points to raster files, can be displayed in an R-Shiny app. During the work, we will develop a nice R-Shiny App, which allows us not only to display, but also to manipulate GIS related data. On the way there, we will touch some interesting Geostatistical concepts. Knowledge in R is required to follow the course and previous exposure to R-Shiny and some GIS techniques would be helpful, but you can follow the course even without it.

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!