Karin Kumar
Williams College, Mathematics and Statistics, Undergraduate
In recent years, R has silently become the workhorse for many quantitative archaeologists. It’s open source, platform-independent and can be linked very well with other programming languages. [...] Nevertheless, there are still many... more
In recent years, R has silently become the workhorse for many quantitative archaeologists. It’s open source, platform-independent and can be linked very well with other programming languages. [...] Nevertheless, there are still many colleagues who have not yet realised the potential of the language and how easy it is today to conduct high quality research with the available tools. [...]
Within this session we would like to explore the state of the art and the potential application of R in archaeology. We invite presentations for this session that explore questions like (but not limited to):
* What are the specific benefits of this statistical framework in the eyes of its users?
* What are the possibilities? What are the limits?
* What future directions might the usage of R in archaeology have?
* Which archaeological package has been developed, and which package still has to be developed to improve the usability of the sofware for archaeologists?
* What has to be considered to optimise the workflow with R?
We especially would like to attract colleagues who might present archaeological R packages that are ready or in the making and demonstrate their relevance for archaeological analysis. Also we would like to encourage potential presenters to demonstrate their research approaches via live coding, for which we would support them in ensuring that their presentations will work offline and on foreign hardware. [...] We
hope to foster a productive and inclusive exchange between both young and experienced users from all backgrounds.
Within this session we would like to explore the state of the art and the potential application of R in archaeology. We invite presentations for this session that explore questions like (but not limited to):
* What are the specific benefits of this statistical framework in the eyes of its users?
* What are the possibilities? What are the limits?
* What future directions might the usage of R in archaeology have?
* Which archaeological package has been developed, and which package still has to be developed to improve the usability of the sofware for archaeologists?
* What has to be considered to optimise the workflow with R?
We especially would like to attract colleagues who might present archaeological R packages that are ready or in the making and demonstrate their relevance for archaeological analysis. Also we would like to encourage potential presenters to demonstrate their research approaches via live coding, for which we would support them in ensuring that their presentations will work offline and on foreign hardware. [...] We
hope to foster a productive and inclusive exchange between both young and experienced users from all backgrounds.
