Federica Gazzelloni

Introduction to Rome R Users Group

🚀 Introducing the Rome R Users Group

A new community for people using #RStats in Rome, from statistics and research to data science and real-world applications.

We’re building a space for learning, and networking.

🎬 Intro video:
youtu.be/e8eX3b29BTo

#DataScience #OpenSource #Rome #RProgramming

Working Smarter with {dplyr} 1.2.0 – A Practical Session, Wed, Mar 18, 2026, 6:00 PM | Meetup **{dplyr} 1.2.0 is out, and wow, is it a delight!** **Join us for a tour** of the new tools in {dplyr} 1.2.0 and when you should use them. We will walk through **WHEN** y

📢 Exciting News for R-Ladies Rome!

Join us for a session with Isabella Velásquez from Posit PBC: "What’s New in {dplyr} 1.2.0." Discover updates like when_any(), when_all(), and more, with practical examples.

🗓️ March 18, 2026, 6pm CET
🔗 Register: www.meetup.com/rladies-rome...

#DataScience 🚀

Notes on Data and Learning — N.9 When AI Becomes a Learning Companion

📘 Notes on Data and Learning — N.9

When AI Becomes a Learning Companion

AI can accelerate work, but the growing ecosystem of tools introduces a new cost: deciding what to learn, what to ignore, and which systems to trust.

Read more ↓
federicagazzelloni.substack.com/p/notes-on-d...

typeR has been featured by @rfortherestofus.com 🤩
The package enables a live-typing experience when teaching or demonstrating R workflows, helping presenters control pacing and keep the logic of the code clear.

Thanks very much for mentioning typeR 🧡

Federica’s Substack | Substack I share curated links to books, software-related resources, and tools that I personally use or consider useful for data analysis, statistical work, programming, and technical productivity. These…

Issue N.8 of Notes on Data and Learning is out.

Inference Begins Before Modelling.

Training time is visible.
Data shaping time is decisive.

Most iteration happens upstream — in how targets, features, and structure are defined.

👇 Read the full reflection: federicagazzelloni.substack.com

The Mortality Thief: Death hides in the detail, Thu, Feb 26, 2026, 6:00 PM | Meetup What happens when a risk manager finds himself in the middle of a financial crime? In this talk, [Mark Griffin](https://www.linkedin.com/in/markwgriffin/) introduces [The

📢 Happening today!
From actuarial science to financial crime and AI — join us for a talk with Mark Griffin, former actuary turned thriller author of The Mortality Thief.

#Risk, #insurance, #governance, and how #AI is reshaping decision-making.
Join US👇
www.meetup.com/rome-r-users...

Federica Gazzelloni | Substack Author of Health Metrics and the Spread of Infectious Diseases | R Expert | Data Science | Statistics | Reproducible learning

New issue of Notes on Data and Learning is out.

Working With What Is Not Directly Observed.

Estimates are not observations.
Repetition refines judgment.
Tools are strategic choices.

Learning begins before modelling.

Federica Gazzelloni | Substack substack.com/@federicagaz...

Yes, just follow the link and signup . I’ll see you there!

📣 I’ll be speaking at R-NVSU on
Git & GitHub in RStudio: Practical Version Control for Data Work

Focused on real workflows for R users — Git fundamentals, the RStudio Git pane, and collaboration.

🗓️ Join us: www.meetup.com/r-nvsu/event...

#RStats #Git #GitHub #RStudio

📣 I’ll be speaking at R-NVSU on
Git & GitHub in RStudio: Practical Version Control for Data Work

Focused on real workflows for R users — Git fundamentals, the RStudio Git pane, and collaboration.

🗓️ Join us: www.meetup.com/r-nvsu/event...

#RStats #Git #GitHub #RStudio

The Mortality Thief: Death hides in the detail, Thu, Feb 26, 2026, 6:00 PM | Meetup What happens when a risk manager finds himself in the middle of a financial crime? In this talk, [Mark Griffin](https://www.linkedin.com/in/markwgriffin/) introduces [The

Join us on February 26th, 2026, at 6pm CET for a talk with Mark Griffin, author of The Mortality Thief.

We will discuss how actuarial thinking, data analysis, and AI impact decision-making under pressure and transform modern risk management.

Join: www.meetup.com/rome-r-users...

From Data to Decisions: Digital Twins for Smarter Maintenance – R-Ladies Rome In this session, Priyanka Schnell presented a physics-informed, data-driven approach to Condition-Based Maintenance using a digital twin model, anomaly detection, and simulated drilling data from…

🎥 Recording now available!

In From Data to Decisions, Priyanka Schnell walked us through how digital twins, physics-informed features & anomaly detection in aerospace manufacturing.

📝 Blog recap 📺 Watch now: tinyurl.com/yc2uds2b

#RLadiesRome #DataScience #DigitalTwins #ProductionSystems

🚀 We’re looking for volunteers!

@RLadiesRome & @RomeRUsersGroup are growing — and we’d love new people to join the mission.

A few hours per month.
Real experience.
Real community.
Real impact.

Interested? 📩 rome@rladies.org

#RLadies #RStats #RCommunity #DataScience #WomenInTech

GitHub - Fgazzelloni/fgazzelloni.github.io: Main root website Main root website. Contribute to Fgazzelloni/fgazzelloni.github.io development by creating an account on GitHub.

🎙️ Automated my podcast publishing workflow! 🚀

New episodes from my RSS feed automatically become formatted posts on my website using GitHub Actions + R + Quarto.

No more manual work. Just automatic publishing.

Pods: federicagazzelloni.com/content/podc...
Code: github.com/Fgazzelloni/...

Federica’s Substack | Federica Gazzelloni | Substack I share curated links to books, software-related resources, and tools that I personally use or consider useful for data analysis, statistical work, programming, and technical productivity. These…

📬 Issue No. 5 of Notes on Data and Learning discusses the importance of omission in education.

👉 Full issue on Substack: federicagazzelloni.substack.com

#Teaching #Learning #DataScience #Education #Substack

Using Git and GitHub in RStudio, Fri, Feb 27, 2026, 6:00 PM | Meetup Learn about using Git and GitHub in RStudio. **Note: Participants are required to install [Git](https://git-scm.com) and sign up for a [GitHub](https://github.com) account

📢 Excited to share insights with the R-NVSU crowd!

I'll cover Git & GitHub in RStudio: Essential Version Control for Data Projects. Topics include:
- Git basics in RStudio
- Effective R project workflows
📅 Event details & signup: 👉 www.meetup.com/r-nvsu/event...
#DataScience #GitHub

Issue 2026-W06 Highlights A prominent leader at the intersection of data science and data engineering across multiple languages shares her insights, how a recent Git workshop…

🎙️ Our Git & GitHub: Practical Version Control for Data Work tutorial by @RLadiesRome was featured on the R Weekly Highlights podcast (Ep. 220)
🎧 Podcast: serve.podhome.fm/episodepage/...
📰 R Weekly: rweekly.org
📦 Tutorial & recording: rladiesrome.org

Huge thanks to the R Weekly team 💙
#RLadiesRome

typeR - Typing Animation for R Code Simulate typing animation for R scripts, R Markdown, and Quarto documents with optional live code execution.

🎉 Excited to announce that typeR is now on CRAN!

typeR simulates typing animations for R scripts - perfect for live coding demos and presentations.

Install: install.packages("typeR")
Docs: fgazzelloni.github.io/typeR/

#rstats #RPackage

Issue 2026-W06 Highlights A prominent leader at the intersection of data science and data engineering across multiple languages shares her insights, how a recent Git workshop…

Episode 220 of R Weekly Highlights is out! serve.podhome.fm/episodepage/...

🎙️ @emilyriederer.bsky.social on Test Set @posit.co
💪 Git for data workflows @fgazzelloni.bsky.social @rladiesrome.bsky.social
🏗️ libdplyr @mrchypark.bsky.social

h/t @mike-thomas.bsky.social & Jon Carroll 🙏

#RStats #databs

R-Ladies Rome

Thank you very much for mentioning us and for all amazing words. Git saves my life almost everyday 🧡. Stay tuned because we’ll organise more things like that soon! Rladiesrome.org

🎥 Recording now available!

The Git & GitHub: Practical Version Control for Data Work session with R-Ladies Rome is now on YouTube.

📺 Watch the recording: youtu.be/Sa8NPcaNYLo
📄 Materials: tinyurl.com/bdczzcf6

#Git #GitHub #VersionControl #ReproducibleResearch #DataScience #RLadiesRome

Teaching live vs online: tools, trade-offs, and visibility Federica Gazzelloni Teaching statistics and data science live is not the same as teaching them online. What changes most is visibility: how learners see code being written, how mistakes are handled, a...

Check out the latest article in my newsletter: Teaching live vs online: tools, trade-offs, and visibility www.linkedin.com/pulse/teachi...

🎉 New in #typeR 0.2.0: typeRun()!

⚡ Types AND executes R code in real-time
🎮 Interactive pause/resume (ESC)
🧠 Smart output truncation
📄 Works with .R/. Rmd/.qmd

Perfect for live teaching & demos!

📦 github.com/Fgazzelloni/...
#RStats #RPackages

Really useful if you want to speak hands-free while still providing a live-coding experience, with full control over the typing delay. Stay tune for future updates 😎

I’ve just published {typeR}, a small R package that lets you simulate live typing. It prints code
To install:
devtools::install_github("fgazzelloni/typeR")

If you teach or demo R, I’d love your feedback on how it works for you. #rstats #rpackages

From Basics to Advanced Health Analytics: Exploring Diabetes Data – R-Ladies Rome In this workshop, participants were guided through a complete exploratory data analysis workflow in R using a simulated diabetes dataset, focusing on data understanding, cleaning, visualisation, and…

🎥 The recording is out!
Our R-Ladies Rome session
“From Basics to Advanced Health Analytics: Exploring Diabetes Data”
is now available. We cover EDA, data wrangling, ggplot2 visualisation, and clustering, step by step, using a simulated diabetes dataset.

👉 Watch here: tinyurl.com/mtv393fr

Unlocking the Power of Data Visualization with R A full list of Data Visualizations with code made with the R programming language.

All code here: fgazzelloni.github.io/UPDVwR/

From Basics to Advanced Health Analytics: Exploring Diabetes Data, Wed, Dec 17, 2025, 6:00 PM | Meetup In this session, we will walk through a full end-to-end workflow of health data analysis in R using a simulated database based of diabetes. We will begin with **explorator

Next @rladiesrome.bsky.social workshop! 💜
“From Basics to Advanced Health Analytics: Exploring Diabetes Data” - A hands-on session walking through EDA → wrangling → ggplot2 viz → modeling → clustering 🤩

Hosted by @fgazzelloni.bsky.social , Rafaela & Lucy ✨

RSVP: www.meetup.com/rladies-rome...

Here we are 👉🗺️ the final day of #30DayMapChallenge 2025 💛
30 maps, 30 ideas — exploring data, design, projections, rasters, OSM layers, insets, palettes & reproducible R workflows.
Improved something new every day. 💛