They’re back, again.
For the 2024 Ihaka Lectures we have
- 12 September: Yihui, who needs no introduction, on Reimagining literate programming and automated report generation
- 19 September: Farah Hancock, a data journalist. Initially trained as a designer, Farah Hancock worked for many years in the advertising industry in New Zealand and abroad, primarily working on digital campaigns. Experiencing a midlife career crisis she pivoted to journalism and as a visual thinker she inadvertently fell into data journalism when the Covid-19 pandemic started. Since then she’s visualised a range of topics from food exports to bus cancellations, fatal police shootings and political donations.
- 26 September: Peter Ellis, formerly a data scientist in the NZ public service and now Director of the Statistics for Development division at the Pacific Community. Peter will talk about Making R work in Government and notes that “R’s competitor in government is not Julia or Python or even SAS, but overwhelmingly Excel.”
These lectures are at 6:30 pm in the Science Building 303 at University of Auckland, on the corner of Wellesley Street and Princes St, across the road from Albert Park. Refreshments will be served (in the basement/entry level of building 303) from 6pm. If you’re planning to come in person, please register.
The lectures will be live streamed (details here)and subsequently posted on YouTube. The timezone is NZST/UTC+12.