Public speaking

Community engagement

Previously (end of 2015 - Nov 2019), I have organised the EdinbR meetup (check out the site for details). EdinbR speakers during this time have included Hadley Wickham and David Robinson.
For my community engagement, data skills and commitment to data science work, I was awarded the New Talent DataIQ award (July 2019)
SatRday Newcastle conference co-organiser (April 2019)
DataTech conference chair (March 2019)

Date	Title / Topic	Group	Event	Video	Slides
2023-07	Deconstructing LLM use: Key considerations to deliver custom solutions	New York R Conference	Conference	-	Slides
2022-10	Journey through a landscape of options: Choosing among web app frameworks for your project	JumpingRivers / Shiny in Production	Conference	-	Slides
2021-01	Speeding up your Shiny App	North East Data Scientists	Meetup	-	-
2020-10	Data Validation in R: From Principles to Tools and Packages	New York Open Statistical Programming Meetup	Meetup	YouTube	Link
2020-07	A beginner’s guide to web scraping in Python	PyData Edinburgh Meetup	Meetup	-	Link
2019-11	Putting the science back in data science: Best practices for data collection & cleaning	Statistics group within Stirling University	-	-	-
2019-09	Using Data science for good (Using mixed models to assess the impact generated by a charity working with families in need)	Advice Direct Scotland	-	-	-
2019-09	Exploring transport routes and journey characteristics using R Shiny	FOSS4G Conference	Link	-	-
2019-06	Adjusting reviewer scores for a fairer assessment via multi-faceted Rasch modelling	useR! conference	Link	-	Link
2019-05	Generalised Additive Models applied to tourism data	Newcastle Upon Tyne Data Science Meetup	Meetup	-	Link