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Incubator: Expanding the R community in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA)
Session Topics: Community and Outreach
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Incubator Topics: Community and Outreach Keywords: Community, Middle East, North Africa, useR group Incubator: Expanding the R community in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) 1University of Liverpool, United Kingdom; 2Open Science Community Saudi Arabia; 3King Abdullah International Medical Research Center (KAIMRC), Saudi Arabia; 4Prime Analytics, Tunis; 5Sonatrach, Algeria; 6National Pen, Tunis; 7Sultan Qaboos University (SQU), Oman; 8The National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS); 9The National Institutes of Health (NIH); 10Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Statistiques et d'Economie Appliquée (ENSSEA); 11Saudi Aramco, Saudi Arabia; 12DNA Analytics, Tunis; 13Pasteur Institute of Tunis Data Science (DS) has become an in-demand, highly paid career in MENA, especially in UAE, KSA and Oil-rich Gulf countries but despite this interest in DS in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), there is very few R meet-up/R user group dedicated to learning, teaching, and sharing information about the R Programming language in MENA. Several chapters for R-Ladies, UseR groups were established in Saudi Arabia, Tunis, Algeria, Sudan, Muscat and Egypt to bring out more R users and empower data scientists from underrepresented communities in MENA. However, the growth of the R community in MENA is limited by the language barrier, which makes the communities that exist around R (e.g. rOpenScie, RLadies, ...) not well-known in MENA. This incubator aims to establish a working group dedicated to expanding the R community in MENA, and building a network between the different groups. It will engage researchers and data scientists in the MENA region through in-person collaboration on open source projects. By the end of the incubator, we'll have established a working group and identified the barriers and how to overcome them to expand the R community in MENA. This working group aims to facilitate collaboration and integration between data scientists in MENA and R communities Worldwide. Link to package or code repository.
In this incubator, we will invite community builders, founders and organisers of R-Ladies and UseR chapters across the MENA region as well as R-bloggers who are enriching the Arabic content in R. |
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