A scholarship to the Posit Conference in Seattle!
I was one of 40 lucky recipients of the Posit Opportunity Scholarship! My workshop and registration fees were covered so that I could attend the conference here at home in Seattle in August 2024. The scholarship also helped pay for transportation, lodging, and a little extra for dinner or other things here and there.
It wasn’t only a blessing for me to receive the recognition, but given that PSRC conference funds are limited, it was great that it also gave another colleague a chance to attend. One of the highlights of this particular conference was that most of my data science team colleagues were able to attend.
A benefit of filling out the application was that it forced me to reflect on my R journey. This past year, I was working on the Community Profiles dashboard. Originally created by my department director, I later became heavily involved refactoring it to include shiny modules amid other refactoring. I also added the Racial Disparate Impacts and dabbled with JS to have some tooltip features.
I spent time adding echarts4r functions to psrcplot because I’ve learned how to more successfully debug R packages. It was always challenging for me, but luckily, thanks to my supervisor who showed me load_all(), it’s been so much more pleasant. We may or may not use the functions I added, but going through that process was worthwhile.
My last PSRC R workshop was on code organization where I taught basics in functions, lists, and loops. Prior to that one was the second session of an intro to git and github. At the time of writing my application, I was hoping to plan one on purrr, and luckily I am in the process of developing one.
Again, feeling really blessed to have received this opportunity!