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A community that connects, supports, and promotes LGBTQ+ people in the R community and spreads awareness of LGBTQ+ issues through data-driven activism. https://rainbowr.org Posts by @ellakaye.co.uk and @oberman.bsky.social.
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๐Ÿ”” we're starting in 15 minutes, but it's not too late to sign up via rainbowr.org/meetups

๐Ÿ‘‡ Join us later today for the rainbowR meet-up! ๐Ÿ‘‡

Sign-up for the next round of the rainbowR buddies scheme is open until Mar 2nd! Pairs will be introduced on Mar 3rd ๐ŸŒˆ๐Ÿ‘ฏโ€โ™‚๏ธ If you're LGBTQ+ and code in #RStats, and want an opportunity to connect with someone else in the community (through a random pairing), this is for you ๐Ÿ˜ƒ rainbowr.org/buddies

๐ŸŒˆ rainbowR meet-up: Wednesday February 26th, 5pm UTC ๐ŸŒˆ - connect with other LGBTQ+ people who code in #RStats ๐Ÿณ๏ธโ€๐ŸŒˆ - ask questions about R ๐Ÿ™‹ - tell us about an R package you like ๐Ÿ“ฆ - show us something R-related youโ€™ve been working on ๐Ÿ’ป โžก๏ธ Registration via rainbowr.org/meetups

We're discussing chapters 5 & 6 of #QueerData today! Join us in 30 minutes or at 11pm GMT ๐ŸŒˆ

On Feb 21, at noon ET, join us at the next BIOS2 Community Call to chat with folks from @rainbowr.org ! We'll discuss all things community - what we love and hate about them, and how to find and nurture them! Registrations here: bit.ly/bios2-cc-feb25 #DataBS #RStats

๐ŸŒˆ New year, new queer R users meet-up! Join us later today via Zoom: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

๐ŸŒˆ ๐Ÿ“š It's book club day again! Today, we're meeting for the third time in our book club series. See rainbowr.org/book-club for all info ๐Ÿ“š ๐ŸŒˆ

๐ŸŒˆ rainbowR meet-up: Wednesday January 15th, 5pm UTC ๐ŸŒˆ - connect with other LGBTQ+ people who code in #RStats ๐Ÿณ๏ธโ€๐ŸŒˆ - ask questions about R ๐Ÿ™‹ - tell us about an R package you like ๐Ÿ“ฆ - show us something R-related youโ€™ve been working on ๐Ÿ’ป โžก๏ธ Registration via rainbowr.org/meetups

๐ŸŽ‰ 2025 is going to be a HUGE year for rainbowR!

Buddy pair introductory emails now sent! The pairings are completely random, but looking at how each pair of assigned buddies introduced themselves and their interests, I'm really confident that this is a set of particularly good/fortuitous matches ๐ŸŒˆ๐Ÿ‘ฏHope you enjoy getting to know each other!

Last day to sign up for this round of the rainbowR buddies scheme! See rainbowr.org/buddies for details.

๐ŸŒˆOur online meet-up is starting soon, but you can still sign up!

Based on this chuck of R code, can you figure out when the next rainbowR meet-up takes place? โคต The answer and sign-up link are in the replies!

We currently have 666 followers. Could we have (at least) one more, please!

Sign-up for the next round of the rainbowR buddies scheme is open! Buddies will be paired/introduced on Dec 9th ๐ŸŒˆ๐Ÿ‘ฏโ€โ™‚๏ธ If you're LGBTQ+ and code in #RStats, and want an opportunity to connect with someone else in the community (through a random pairing), then this is for you ๐Ÿ˜ƒ rainbowr.org/buddies

This is going to be a FANTASTIC event about teaching programming to non-programmers, including how to teach programming inclusively. It's being organised/run by a couple of rainbowR-ers ๐ŸŒˆ. Stellar keynote line-up of @Felienne.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy, Greg Wilson and @yabellini.bsky.social.

๐Ÿš€ We've launched a rainbowR starter pack ๐Ÿš€ go.bsky.app/S3t9LbZ โ†ฉ๏ธ Reply to be added!

Very excited to be on the way to Birmingham to talk about rainbowR at the @nhsrcommunity.bsky.social RPYSOC conference and hear about #RStats and #Python work that supports our health service. Can't wait to chat with the folks there. See you soon!

Transgender Day of Remembrance ๐Ÿณ๏ธโ€โšง๏ธ๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ glaad.org/tdor-memoriam/ ggplot(data.frame(x = rep(1:5, each = 5), y = 1:5)) + geom_tile(aes(x, y, fill = factor(y))) + scale_fill_manual(values = c('#5BCEFA', '#F5A9B8', "white", '#F5A9B8', '#5BCEFA')) + theme_void() + theme(legend.position = "none")

๐ŸŒˆ rainbowR meet-up: Wednesday December 4th, 5pm UTC ๐ŸŒˆ - connect with other LGBTQ+ people who code in #RStats ๐Ÿณ๏ธโ€๐ŸŒˆ - ask questions about R ๐Ÿ™‹ - tell us about an R package you like ๐Ÿ“ฆ - show/tell us about something R-related youโ€™ve been working on ๐Ÿ’ป โžก๏ธ Registration via us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Got round to making a starter pack for scholars, practitioners and activists whose work explores #QueerData themes ๐ŸŒˆ #gender #sex #sexuality #LGBTQ #stats #data Let me know who's missing or if you work in this space and would like added! go.bsky.app/PPxKRh9

๐ŸŒˆ๐Ÿ“š rainbowR book club kicks off this Thursday! ๐Ÿ“š๐ŸŒˆ Dive with us into 'Queer Data: Using Gender, Sex and Sexuality Data for Action' by @kevinguyan.bsky.social โžก๏ธ Learn more and sign up at rainbowr.org/book-club

๐Ÿ“ข๐ŸŒˆ rainbowR is now on LinkedIn! If you're there too, please help us promote the community on that platform. Thanks! www.linkedin.com/groups/13115...

The recording of our lightning talk from posit::conf(2024) is now live! It gives a brief overview of why we exist, (some of) what we do, and how to get involved. www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOEZ... #PositConf2024 @posit.co

Hello ๐Ÿ‘‹ ๐ŸŒˆ rainbowR is a community that connects, supports, and promotes LGBTQ+ people in the #RStats community and spreads awareness of LGBTQ+ issues. We run monthly online meet-ups, a Slack group, a buddy scheme, a book club and a repo of LGBTQ+ datasets. rainbowr.org