 Hello, my name is Rick Pack and this presentation is Our Community Explorer, The State of Our. The master developer of all this work by far is Ben C. Uba, who I will now call Ben Uba. Also involved were Meet Batnagar and Anani Sharma. The Our Community Explorer is a data-driven exploration of the Our Community that looks at global activities with a focus on groups, events, software, Q&A through analysis of the Stack Overflow website, Google Summer of Code, Twitter, and rankings of the Our Language relative to other languages. You can look at the Our Community Explorer dashboards by using the link on the right of this slide. So why was the Our Community Explorer created? It helps users find user groups, events, popular tools, and trends in the Our Data Science space. It provides a data-driven tool to aid organizations in planning events and diversity programs. It helps track underrepresented regions with respect to user groups, members, and events. It provides a way to monitor the growth and popularity of the Our Language across time and it helps to recognize the efforts of organizers, mentors, community leaders, developers, and other volunteers across user groups, events, and other open source programs. The expected audience of this presentation and the Our Community Explorer include support organizations like the Our Foundation and Our Consortium, diversity-focused groups like Our Forward and Our Ladies, and for-profit organizations that provide our related products and services. We also are looking at user groups and event organizers, users and developers, including those who develop Our Packages, Our Enthusiasts and Evangelists, prospective users and organizations who are considering the adoption of Our and those speculators and writers who think Our is declining unlike the Evangelists. In fact, when we look at the data, we see an increasing number of Our user groups in the bottom left line chart. What we are showing in this presentation are data collected mostly through the Meetup.com API, often using the Our Ladies Meetup.com package. Along with seeing growth in groups across time at the bottom left, we see on the right the global spread of Our user groups, with a prominent representation in North America and Western Europe and an underrepresentation in areas including the continent of Africa and South America. Still, we see global presence and over 900 user groups. Our Ladies also has a global presence. Our Ladies represent a tremendous asset to the Our community and we want to thank founders including Claudia Vitolo, who collaborated with Ben Uba and myself on the Google Summer of Code project in 2019, Our Community Explorer. There are almost 200 chapters worldwide. The line graph on the left shows sustained growth and we mentioned the global representation on the right with more chapters in Latin America than might be expected. In fact, we see that more clearly in these bar charts on the left when we look at Our user groups, notice Latin America around the center and the relatively greater height that it has for Our Ladies chapters on the right. Asia appears to be underrepresented with respect to Our Ladies chapters relative to other regions and continents. So we all might learn from Latin America. Here this shows the same data, these pie charts in a different way. The pie chart on the left shows Latin America with a smaller slice than what we see in the Our Ladies membership on the right. When we look worldwide, excuse me, at meetup events, we see sustained growth over the years from 2012 to 2019 with about 20% of growth of events as presented on meetup.com relative to 2018, 20% growth. Over 7,500 events have been conducted over those eight years. Again looking at events on meetup.com, we see that there's a drop in activity in the summer months, perhaps because of vacations and that popular event, USAR. Also we see a drop during the winter months, 30% of all our meetup events have been organized in the top 20 cities worldwide. Number one is Taipei, Taiwan with 420 events. More than double what we see for number two, New York City in the United States, West Des Moines, Iowa, number three in the western part of the United States, Portland, Oregon, number four, and then Dublin, Ireland, number five. The top 20 cities had even more, 40 plus percent of yes RSVPs. These are the number of individuals aggregated across events who indicated that they would attend an event, a particular event, a yes RSVP, Taipei, Taiwan, sorry that the number is cut off, but more than 19,700 yes RSVPs. Number two, New York City, number three, Washington, D.C., number four, Chicago, Illinois in the Midwest portion of the United States, and number five, Melbourne, Australia. Many speakers will probably reference COVID-19 and we will do so briefly. We just noticed that on the left meetup events and on the right, yes RSVPs dropped as concerns about COVID rose around February and then as of late have risen as organizers have discovered how popular online events are that concern are. Our ladies events also show growth over 1800 events, but most importantly, perhaps growth across time year over year, especially since 2016, when there were only 40 our ladies events in 2019, there were more than 850 as shown in the bar chart at the bottom left. The top right bar chart shows meetup event counts also growing with a similar pattern as we saw earlier in drop in the winter months, forgive me that's not referencing growth that shows monthly counts, and then at the bottom we see across all events also the monthly count. So we see a similar pattern between our ladies events across months and all our events. Saturday has been a huge contributor to the art community. And so let's look at what's been happening with those events. We see we're just getting started when we focus on the bottom right. Growth went from just a single event in 2016 and 2017 to as the bar chart shows six events in 2018 and then nine in 2019. Also interesting is Europe was number one, but number two is Africa, which has not ranked so well relative to other regions slash continents in prior slides. CRAN, of course, is the preeminent repository for downloading both base R and R packages. And we see that downloads have really grown across time, especially base R in 2019 and R packages in the right bar chart. Over 2 billion, in fact, let's say the number 2 billion, 616 million, 78,617 R package downloads have taken place from the CRAN repository, a huge number. Bioconductor also shows growth across time. From 2009 through 2019, we see sustained and even increasing growth of downloads of bioconductor hosted packages. Over 127 million and a half downloads have taken place from the bioconductor repository. To my knowledge, Rick Pack, there has not been much research into R packages or actually R repositories more generally, hosted on GitHub. Ben has found almost 90,000 in 2019 repositories hosted on GitHub. So this is the right barrier for analysis. We see, again, growth across the years in the right bar chart. And on the left, I'll read off the top five most starred. That means most favored or most... We provide a star for a GitHub repository when we want to communicate appreciation to the creator of that work, creators. And the number one most starred GitHub repository that's R-related is ggplot2, the number two awesome hyphen R, number three shiny, number four ML for hackers, and number five D-plier. We can analyze R-related Q&A on the Stack Overflow website using the dashboards. There's actually been a decrease of page views, which Ben and I wonder could mean that individuals are returning to Stack Overflow less as they learn the techniques that they previously had to repeatedly be reminded of on Stack Overflow. There's been general growth across time, but a more stable pattern is seen in the right line chart, particularly for questions and answers. The... I'm sorry. Yes, questions and answers, the red and blue bar, and then a line. And then that top line, the green line for comments, shows more growth, which could mean that while individuals are returning to the Stack Overflow page less, our developers are finding opportunities to communicate through comments on previous questions and answers, new ways of thinking about things, given growth of R packages and new functions in even the same packages. I mentioned earlier, Claudia Vitolo, one of the R-Ladies founders, worked with Ben, Uba, and myself on the Google Summer of Code 2019 project, R Community Explorer, which featured dashboards that are now appearing in this presentation and have actually been augmented by Ben. Google Summer of Code has contributed $117,500 to the R project and with an average student participation of 18 and mentor participation of almost 38 members across the years, we see this is a popular way for individuals to collaborate on new work in R. Ben has found over almost 250 special R Twitter accounts. These are hosted by organizations, they're bots, and not individual users, but instead entities that are committed to helping to educate about R. Number one is RStudio, as we've seen the bar chart on the bottom left, among most followed non-personal R-centered Twitter accounts, number one RStudio, number two are bloggers, number three are Langtip, number four are StudioTips, and number five are OpenSide. You can find these non-personal R-centered Twitter accounts on Twitter by preceding any of what you see here with an at symbol, and you can probably Google the same. All of these are listed in the CSV linked at the top of this slide. These non-personal R-centered Twitter accounts include a noteworthy one given this presentation, USAR 2020 STL. R is a popular language when we look at its ranking relative to other languages, with its best ranking being number five, according to the IEEE. So in summary, the data has shown that R remains popular, as R declining the data say no. R is not only popular, but it's becoming more popular. We want to thank our sponsor, Jumping Rivers, and invite you to help us build an automated, data-driven website that covers all that you have seen here and much more. You can find ways to help by clicking the link at the very bottom and given the current conversation, we want to highlight that this is a community project developed by a black community member, Ben Uba, who is in Nigeria. So please consider supporting the R Community Explorer. On behalf of Ben Uba, Meet Bhatnagar and Anani Sharma, my name is Rick Pack, and we thank you for experiencing our presentation concerning the state of R, R Community Explorer.