We'd love to have you present at the Cleveland R User Group. The guidelines below are to help you prepare. If you have any additional questions, please open an Issue in this repo or directly email the co-organizers. When you're ready, please open an Issue to share your talk proposal.
While we of course welcome talks that specifically involve the use of R, we are also happy to have talks on any topic that would be of interest to R users. Thus anything related to statistics, data science, etc. is in scope.
You do not need to be an expert to present on a topic. In fact, it may even be better if you just learned about a topic because it is fresh in your mind and you can still remember what it was like to not know anything about it.
Our meetups are typically the 4th Wednesday of each month. They start at 6 pm local time (US Eastern, America/New_York, alternates between UTC-4 and UTC-5). They are virtual via Zoom, and if you consent, we record the talk and post the recording to our YouTube channel a few days later.
Here is the timeline of a standard meetup:
- Wait ~5 minutes for members to join Zoom call
- Welcome, announcements
- Start recording, co-organizer will introduce you
- Your presentation (30-60 minutes)
- Q&A
We're flexible with the presentation length. If you don't want to be the only presenter, you can also split time with a second speaker or participate in one of our lightning talk meetups.
| Type | Length (min) |
|---|---|
| Single speaker | 30-60 |
| Two speakers | 10-20 |
| Lightning talks | 5-10 |
We use meetup.com to announce our events and handle registration. The Zoom link for the meetup is only available to members that have registered for the event (which requires membership in our user group). If you are an external speaker and prefer not to join our group, please let a co-organizer know, and we are happy to instead send you a calendar invite with the Zoom link.