R-Ladies

Formation| 2016
Type| organization
Fields| computing, R, Women in STEM
Website| rladies.org

R-Ladies is an organization that promotes gender diversity in the community of users of the R statistical programming language.[1][2][3] It is made up of local chapters affiliated with the worldwide coordinating organization R-Ladies Global.

## Contents

* 1 History
* 2 Organization
* 3 Gabriela de Queiroz
* 3.1 Early life and education
* 3.2 Achievements
* 4 Notable members
* 5 References

## History

On October 1, 2012, Gabriela de Queiroz, a data scientist, founded R-Ladies in San Francisco (United States) after participating in similar free initiatives through Meetup.[1][4] In the following four years, three other groups started: Taipei in 2014,[5] Minneapolis (called “Twin Cities”) in 2015,[6] and London in 2016.[1][7] The chapters were independent until the 2016 useR! Conference, where it was agreed to create a central coordinating organization. In that year, Gabriela de Queiroz and Erin LeDell of R-Ladies San Francisco; Chiin-Rui Tan, Alice Daish, Hannah Frick, Rachel Kirkham and Claudia Vitolo of R-Ladies London; as well as Heather Turner joined to apply for a grant from the R Consortium, with which they asked for support for the global expansion of the organization.[8][9]

In September 2016, with this scholarship, R-Ladies Global was founded and in 2018 it was declared as a high-level project by the R Consortium.[10] The current leadership team consists of Averi Giudicessi, Athanasia Monika Mowinckel, Shannon Pileggi, Riva Quiroga and Yanina Bellini Saibene.[11][12] The leadership team has an overarching role in steering and directing the organization. It works closely together with more than 20 volunteers who take care of various areas such as campaigns, the directory, mentoring, public communications and social media, or the community Slack.[11][12][13] As of 2024, the R-Ladies Global community consists of 219 groups in 63 countries.[14]

## Organization

R-Ladies meetings are organized around workshops and talks, led by people that identify as female or as gender minorities (including but not limited to cis/trans women, trans men, non-binary, genderqueer, agender, pangender, two-spirt, gender-fluid, neutrois).[8][15] The organization is coordinated by the Global Team.[16] The chapters, however, operate decentralized and new chapters can be founded by anyone using the publicly available "starter-kit".[17]

R-Ladies groups aim to promote a culture of inclusion within their events and community.[18][19] In addition, they promote gender equality and diversity in conferences,[20][21] in the workplace,[22][23][24] collaboration among gender minorities,[25] and analysis of data about women.[15][24]

The Directory[26] is a public directory listing 1,267 profiles of R-Ladies (in 2024). R-Ladies Global also showcases blogs written and maintained by their members.[27]

R-Ladies also collaborates with other projects, such as NASA Datanauts[28][29][20] or PyLadies.[30][31]

## Gabriela de Queiroz

Gabriela de Queiroz

Occupation| Director of AI at Microsoft
Known for| R-Ladies, AI Inclusive
Academic background
Alma mater| Rio de Janeiro State University (Bachelor in Statistics)
California State University, East Bay (Master in Statistics)
Website| https://k-roz.com

Gabriela de Queiroz is the Director of AI at Microsoft[32] and the founder of first R-Ladies chapter, AI Inclusive and co-founder of R-Ladies Global.[33][34][35][36] Before, she also worked at IBM as a chief data scientist.[32]

### Early life and education

She was raised in Brazil and received her bachelor's degree in statistics from Rio de Janeiro State University.[37] She has a master’s in epidemiology at Oswaldo Cruz Foundation and another one in statistics at California State University, East Bay.[37] de Queiroz moved to the United States in 2012 to begin her master's degree in statistics at California State University, East Bay.[34]

### Achievements

Interested in creating an inclusive space for women learning the programming language R, she began a Meetup group in the San Francisco Bay area.[34] Since then, the R-Ladies organization has grown to 219 groups in 63 countries.[38]

In addition to her work with R-Ladies, de Queiroz is an expert in machine learning and led IBM's AI Strategy and Innovations team.[36][39] Her team contributed to projects such as TensorFlow.[36] de Queiroz was a finalist of the Women in Open Source Award by Red Hat in 2019,[40] named 40 under 40 by CSUEB[41] as well as listed among the 100 Brilliant Women in AI Ethics™ in 2023.[42]

## Notable members

* Julia Stewart Lowndes

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Kopf, Dan (24 July 2019). "How R-Ladies made data science inclusive" (in en). https://qz.com/work/1661486/r-ladies-made-data-science-inclusive/.
2. ↑ "Resources For Women In Data Science and Machine Learning" (in en-US). https://www.kdnuggets.com/resources-for-women-in-data-science-and-machine-learning.html/.
3. ↑ J, Pablo (2019-08-17). "Mujeres en la programación ¿Cual es la expectativa de mercado?" (in es). https://www.puro-geek.com/2019/08/17/mujeres-en-la-programacion-cual-es-la-expectativa-de-mercado/.
4. ↑ Chan, Rosalie. "This IBM manager moved from Brazil, learned to code, and now leads a worldwide organization to teach women how to be data scientists". https://www.businessinsider.com/gabriela-de-queiroz-ibm-manager-r-ladies-meetup-2019-8.
5. ↑ "[Annual Party 周年慶 R-Laides兩歲了 Celebration for 2-years-old."] (in es). https://www.meetup.com/es/rladies-taipei/events/235691389/.
6. ↑ "First Organizing R-Ladies Meeting!" (in es). https://www.meetup.com/es/rladies-tc/events/221617211/.
7. ↑ "Royal Statistical Society Publications" (in en). Significance 15 (4). August 2018. doi:10.1111/sign.2018.15.issue-4. ISSN 1740-9705.
8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 "About us – R-Ladies Global" (in en-US). https://rladies.org/about-us/.
9. ↑ rladies/global, R-Ladies Global, 2018-04-24, https://github.com/rladies/global, retrieved 2020-03-11
10. ↑ Mertic, John (2018-03-27). "R Consortium welcomes R-Ladies as a top level project" (in en-US). https://www.r-consortium.org/announcement/2018/03/27/r-consortium-welcomes-r-ladies-as-a-top-level-project.
11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 "Meet The Global Team" (in en-US). https://rladies.org/about-us/global-team/.
12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 "Global Leadership Team Transition" (in en-US). https://rladies.org/news/2022-11-18-global-leadership-team-transition/.
13. ↑ "Welcome to the Global Team" (in en-US). https://rladies.org/news/news/new-to-global-team-2023/.
14. ↑ "R-Ladies" (in en-US). https://rladies.org.
15. ↑ 15.0 15.1 "Conoce R-Ladies CDMX, el proyecto donde mujeres enseñan a programar a mujeres". 20 April 2018. https://malvestida.com/2018/04/conoce-r-ladies-cdmx-el-proyecto-donde-mujeres-ensenan-a-programar-a-mujeres/.
16. ↑ Meet The Global Team, R-Ladies Global, https://rladies.org/about-us/global-team/, retrieved 2024-03-20
17. ↑ rladies/starter-kit, R-Ladies Global, 2020-03-07, https://github.com/rladies/starter-kit, retrieved 2020-03-11
18. ↑ Rosenberg, Joshua; Lawson, Michael; Anderson, Daniel; Jones, Ryan Seth; Rutherford, Teomara (2020). "Making Data Science Count In and For Education". Research Methods in Learning Design and Technology. Routledge. p. 17. ISBN 9780429260919. https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9780429260919-7/making-data-science-count-education-joshua-rosenberg-michael-lawson-daniel-anderson-ryan-seth-jones-teomara-rutherford.
19. ↑ Torres, Roberto/ (2018-01-03). "The R community is doing really well in gender diversity" (in en). https://technical.ly/philly/2018/01/03/r-ladies-philly-meetup/.
20. ↑ 20.0 20.1 Clarín.com (20 November 2017). "De la economía a la programación, en un abrir y cerrar de ojos" (in es). https://www.clarin.com/entremujeres/carrera-y-dinero/economia-programacion-abrir-cerrar-ojos_0_SJAIhKxgz.html.
21. ↑ Bueno, Montse Hidalgo Pérez, Olivia López (2018-09-07). "La calculadora mágica de los científicos de datos cumple 25 años" (in es). https://retina.elpais.com/retina/2018/08/22/tendencias/1534935352_747125.html.
22. ↑ "A Multimillion-Dollar Startup Tried To Cover Up Its CEO's Sexual Misconduct. Then The Truth Came Out." (in en). https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/daveyalba/datacamp-sexual-harassment-metoo-tech-startup.
23. ↑ Thieme, Nick (2018). "R generation" (in en). Significance 15 (4): 14–19. doi:10.1111/j.1740-9713.2018.01169.x. ISSN 1740-9713.
24. ↑ 24.0 24.1 Sánchez, Cristina (3 April 2018). "Las ingenieras que luchan para que la inteligencia artificial tenga 'madres'" (in es). https://www.eldiario.es/hojaderouter/inteligencia_artificial/ingenieras-luchan-inteligencia-artificial-madres_0_756974765.html.
25. ↑ "Marcela, programando la igualdad de género" (in es-ES). 2019-10-08. https://testigopurpura.com/2019/10/08/marcela-programando-la-igualdad-de-genero/.
26. ↑ "Directory" (in en-US). https://rladies.org/directory/.
27. ↑ "Blogs by R-Ladies" (in en-US). https://rladies.org/activities/rladies-blogs/.
28. ↑ "Hay que perder ese miedo irracional a las matemáticas" (in es). 2019-04-03. https://innovando.larioja.com/perder-miedo-irracional-20190327003809-ntvo.html.
29. ↑ Herranz, Arantxa (2018-05-28). "Reciclé mi vida profesional por completo haciendo cursos gratuitos de Coursera sobre data science" (in es). https://www.xataka.com/empresas-y-economia/recicle-mi-vida-profesional-completo-haciendo-cursos-gratuitos-coursera-data-science.
30. ↑ "PyLadies + R-Ladies — Bringing the communities together" (in en-US). 2022-07-27. https://www.meetup.com/rladies-cologne/events/286727615/.
31. ↑ "AutoML in R & Python using H2O" (in en-US). 2023-02-17. https://www.meetup.com/rladies-cologne/events/291452327/.
32. ↑ 32.0 32.1 de Queiroz, Gabriele. "About" (in en-US). https://k-roz.com/about/.
33. ↑ "AI Inclusive - What We Do" (in en). https://www.ai-inclusive.org.
34. ↑ 34.0 34.1 34.2 Kopf, Dan (24 July 2019). "How R-Ladies made data science inclusive" (in en). https://qz.com/work/1661486/r-ladies-made-data-science-inclusive/.
35. ↑ "Tidal energy proposal wins UF, IBM technology contest" (in en). https://www.newswise.com/articles/tidal-energy-proposal-wins-uf-ibm-technology-contest.
36. ↑ 36.0 36.1 36.2 Chan, Rosalie. "This IBM manager moved from Brazil, learned to code, and now leads a worldwide organization to teach women how to be data scientists" (in en-US). https://www.businessinsider.com/gabriela-de-queiroz-ibm-manager-r-ladies-meetup-2019-8.
37. ↑ 37.0 37.1 "Gabriela de Queiroz | Amstat News" (in en-US). 2020-03-01. https://magazine.amstat.org/blog/2020/03/01/gabriela-de-queiroz/.
38. ↑ "R-Ladies" (in en-US). https://rladies.org.
39. ↑ "Brasileira é chief de data science, AI e inovação na IBM" (in pt-br). https://www.baguete.com.br/noticias/26/05/2021/brasileira-e-chief-de-data-science-ai-e-inovacao-na-ibm/.
40. ↑ "Meet winners and finalists" (in en-US). https://www.redhat.com/en/about/women-in-open-source?past-winners-and-finalists=2019finalist.
41. ↑ "2019 Award Recipients" (in en-US). https://www.csueastbay.edu/alumni/pioneers-of-distinction/40-under-40/2019-recipients/index.html.
42. ↑ "100 Brilliant Women in AI Ethics™ - 2023" (in en-US). https://womeninaiethics.org/the-list/of-2023/.

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