Why R-Ladies

Why R-Ladies

• R-Ladies promotes gender diversity within the R community.
• R package contribution is predominately by (cis)-male.
• Diversity is a great step forward for science and the community in general. This is also true for the agricultural area where maintaining genetic diversity for food security is vital.
• What would you hope to learn from coming to R-Ladies?

Introduction

This data set was obtained from OzDASL.

According to Rex Boggs:

I had a hypothesis that the daily weight of my bar of soap [in grams] in my shower wasn’t a linear function, the reason being that the tiny little bar of soap at the end of its life seemed to hang around for just about ever. I wanted to throw it out, but I felt I shouldn’t do so until it became unusable. And that seemed to take weeks. Also I had recently bought some digital kitchen scales and felt I needed to use them to justify the cost. I hypothesized that the daily weight of a bar of soap might be dependent upon surface area, and hence would be a quadratic function … .

The data ends at day 22. On day 23 the soap broke into two pieces and one piece went down the plughole.