Skyler Elmstrom, one of our co-organizers and leader of the GitHub workshops, has 4 years worth of Cascadia R Conference hex stickers on his laptop 🤩💜. #rstats #CascadiaRConf #HexSticker #R

The Cascadia R Conference this year was a success! The best part of the conference, and R programming in general, is the community 🌈 ®️💙. See you next year in Seattle, WA! #CascadiaRConf #rlang #rstats #DataScience #community #coding

The Cascadia R Conference this year was a success! The best part of the conference, and R programming in general, is the community 🌈 ®️💙. See you next year in Seattle, WA!

Teach me R right meow! 😹

Libby Heeren@libbyheeren.bsky.social · last mo.

Creamsicle is a huge fan of @cascadiarconf.bsky.social 😍 He's taking notes and jotting down all his questions for speakers 🤓 Anyone else have bald spots on their laptop from their terrible wrist posture? 😂 #CascadiaRconf #rstats

The Cascadia R Conference organizing committee! The conference wouldn't happen without our volunteers. Please consider joining our team for next year. #CascadiaR #rstats #volunteer @brittanysbarker.bsky.social @ellishughes.bsky.social @pezkin.bsky.social

Just wrapped up our first session, "AI, LLMs, and Big Data in R" with Kristin Bott, Ed Borasky, and Kylie Bemis"! We learned about using LLMs for coding in R,ethods for code parallelization, Posit and R tools for memory efficiency, and more. #LLMs #CascadiaRConf #AI #Posit #rstats #R #coding

Hannah Wright, an Assistant Professor of Sociology at University of Oregon, is our first keynote speaker. She's talking about state media control can influence large language models. #LLM #rstats #media #CascadiaRConf #models

Cascadia R Conference is kicking off! We have a packed day of presentations, networking, and enjoying some drinks and pizza at the reception. #rstats #R #CascadiaRConf

Another @cascadiarconf.bsky.social coming up! Looking forward to seeing some great #rstats talks and seeing fellow nerds!

Wrapped up a day of teaching Mapping and GIS in R today at the Cascadia R Conference! The repo with answer keys is at github.com/bbarker505/C.... We covered basics of sf and terra, making static and interactive maps, and raster analysis. #CascadiaRConf #GIS #rstats #Mapping #raster #sf #terra

GitHub - bbarker505/CascadiaR_2026_GIS_workshops: Materials for GIS workshops for the 2026 Cascadia R Conf

Materials for GIS workshops for the 2026 Cascadia R Conf - bbarker505/CascadiaR_2026_GIS_workshops

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Finishing up a successful day of workshops at the #CascadiaRConf! @pezkin.bsky.social @brittanysbarker.bsky.social

Cascadia R Conference workshops are underway at PSU, including the "Intro to GIS and Mapping in R" by @brittanysbarker.bsky.social ! #PSU #CascadiaRConf #rstats #GIS #DataScience

Cascadia R Conference is getting going! We're starting to gather for the workshops. #CascadiaRConf #rlang #PSU #DataScience

R Ladies Portland is hosting an after-workshop gathering tomorrow, Friday, June 26 at 5:00 pm at Migration Brewing for the Cascadia R Conference! It's a short walk (~5 min). All are welcome. #CascadiaRConf #Beer #Meetup #Workshop #PSU Address: 1211 SW 5th Ave, Portland, OR 97204

🎉 The Cascadia R Conference starts TOMORROW with multiple workshops on topics including Shiny, GIS, GitHub, Quarto, and Rust! We're excited to welcome everyone for a couple of fun days of learning R and networking in beautiful Portland, OR. #rstats #DataScience #R #CascadiaRConf #Workshop #Coding

🎤 Speaker Spotlight: Randi Bolt We're excited to welcome Randi Bolt to #CascadiaRConf 2026! A tight deadline. A need for actionable insights. Randi will share how R was used to turn messy qualitative data into meaningful themes. #rstats #DataScience #TextMining #NLP #SurveyResearch

🎤 Speaker Spotlight: Simone Mendes We're excited to welcome Simone Mendes to #CascadiaRConf 2026! Simone will introduce Piece-wise Exponential Additive Mixed Models (PAMMs) to help transform complex data for advanced survival analysis. #Biostatistics #rstats #DataScience #SurvivalAnalysis

🎤 Speaker Spotlight: Melissa Bather We're excited to welcome Melissa Bather to #CascadiaRConf 2026! #Bigfoot sightings have been reported for decades. Melissa will use R, spatial statistics, and curiosity to investigate where Sasquatch sightings occur #rstats #DataScience #SpatialAnalysis #Shiny

🎤 Speaker Spotlight: Jon Downs We're excited to welcome Jon Downs to #CascadiaRConf 2026! Fuzzy matching is a critical tool for data integration—but it can be painfully slow. Jon will introduce fozziejoin, a new package for speeding up fuzzy joins. #DataScience #DataEngineering #OpenSource #Rstats

🎤 Speaker Spotlight: Alexandria Reed We're excited to welcome Alexandria Reed to #CascadiaRConf 2026! Alexandria will share how reproducible R workflows help #GIS specialists, scientists, and designers collaborate effectively at an urban #forestry office. #rstats #DataScience #Reproducibility

🎤 Speaker Spotlight: Tim Anderson We're excited to welcome Tim Anderson to #CascadiaRConf 2026! Tim will share how OR Dep of Education used R to transform a months-long financial validation process into a streamlined, automated workflow. #rstats #DataScience #GovernmentData #BusinessIntelligence

🎤 Speaker Spotlight: Josh Roll We're excited to welcome Josh Roll to #CascadiaRConf 2026! How do you estimate pedestrian traffic at every intersection? Josh will share how ODOT used R and #Shiny to model pedestrian traffic volumes in Oregon. #rstats #DataScience #Transportation #MachineLearning #R

🎤 Speaker Spotlight: Kylie Bemis We're excited to welcome Kylie Bemis to #CascadiaRConf 2026! "Out-of-memory computing strategies for R and Bioconductor" What do you do when your data is bigger than your computer's memory? Join us June 26-27 to find out! #rstats #DataScience #Bioconductor #

🎤 Speaker Spotlight: David Gerbing We're excited to welcome David Gerbing to #CascadiaRConf 2026! David will showcase a simpler approach to visualization with the lessR package to produce everything from histograms to interactive visualizations. #rstats #DataScience #DataVisualization #lessR

📣 Ticket sales close this FRIDAY We're looking forward to welcoming the R community back to Portland, OR, on June 26-27, 2026, for two days of workshops, learning, and networking at the Cascadia R Conference! Don't wait! #CascadiaRConf #rstats #R #Rlang #Conference #Portland #DataScience

🎤 Speaker Spotlight: Aditya Gadkari We're excited to welcome Aditya Gadkari to #CascadiaRConf 2026! Waiting on large datasets to load? Aditya will demo how tools like Parquet can dramatically improve storage, read times, and workflows in R. #rstats #DataScience #ApacheParquet #DataEngineering

🎤 Speaker Spotlight: Ed Borasky Ed's talk is titled "xen.assist, Assisted Xentonal Algorithmic Composition with R". Learn to compose xentonal electronic music and explore how agentic AI can become part of the creative process! #CascadiaRConf #rstats #DataScience #RProgramming #AI #MusicTechnology

🎤 Speaker Spotlight: Kristin Bott We're excited to welcome Kristin Bott to Cascadia R Conf 2026! "ellmer for all? Building context around LLMs." Kristin will share lessons about building end-user comfort and practical knowledge around LLMs. #CascadiaRConf #rstats #DataScience #RProgramming #LLM #AI

Cascadia R Ticket Sales Closing Soon, Jun 19!!! This is your last chance to join us in Portland on June 26–27. We are currently around 163 attendees and are expecting a great turnout! Make sure you don't miss out on what looks to be our best conference yet! #CascadiaR #R #Rlang cascadiarconf.com

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Cascadia R Conference is an R conference serving the Pacific Northwest region (Alaska/British Columbia/Washington/Oregon/California).

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📣 Only 3 weeks until the Cascadia R Conference! We're looking forward to welcoming the R community back to Portland, OR, on June 26-27, 2026, for two days of workshops, learning, and networking. But act now! We plan to close registration on June 19. #CascadiaR #R #Rlang #Conference #Portland