CovidR is an e-Rum2020 pre-conference event featuring a contest of R contributions around the topic of the COVID-19 pandemic, collected in the CovidR Gallery.

Selected contributions will be presented to the community at the event on May 29th, where the CovidR contest winner(s) will be announced and awarded. Attendance to the event is free of charge and open to everyone interested in seeing what interesting and novel ideas the community has come up with, as well as discussing them with the authors. The community will also be invited to vote for contributions ahead of and during the event.

The CovidR contest is mostly about R analytics technicalities and for data geeks, but it’s open to data scientists, analysts, academics and researchers that may use the single simplest R function, but just on the right question, at the right time, tackling the many doubts cast by this so vast paradigmatic change we’re all living. Being original in the contest means being able to address different aspects of the pandemic. The CovidR contest is looking for such excellence and originality and we will also judge how R analytics can be an efficient and valid technical service to this effort and in such a context.

To attend the event, please purchase a free ticket before May 22nd to give us the chance to get organized from a technical perspective. Additional information on how to access the event will be provided closer to the event date to all ticket holders. If you are interested in supporting our organization and its activities to promote R you can also purchase a free ticket with an open donation: the funds raised through donations will be used to support the MilanoR association and the organisation of events like e-Rum2020 and their related activities.