Talks

Resources and materials from select talks and presentations.
Title slide reads: the unnecessary places. Below: Mara Averick · Quansight · stdlib, with the Quansight and stdlib logos.

The unnecessary places — Openscapes Community Call

talks
video
open source
AI
sustainability
community

Video and slides from my talk at the October 2026 Openscapes Community Call on the impact of AI on open communities and the people in them.

Oct 1, 2026
Adventures with highcharter and the Highcharts Accessibility module. Start point Resources for Data Viz Accessibility, Finish point five blog posts on accessibility with Highcharts and highcharter. Annotation pointing to center of line connecting start and finish reads Me learning things along the way. Red line pointing to that annotation reads THIS TALK.

highcharter a11y talk

talks
video
R
data visualization
accessibility
Highcharts
highcharter

Video and slides from a talk on lessons learned using the highcharter R package with the Highcharts accessibility module.

Mar 9, 2022
Title reads: What's new in dbplyr 2.0.0? Below, is the dbplyr hex logo with an arrow pointing to it labelled: snazzy new logo by Allison Horst. The bottom left-hand corner reads: Mara Averick, Tidyverse Developer Advocate, RStudio.

What’s new in dbplyr 2.0.0?

talks
R
tidyverse
dbplyr

Slides from my lightning talk to the Greater Boston UseR Group on the new features in the dbplyr 2.0.0 release.

Dec 15, 2020

Screenshot from Upping your storytelling game page shows some R code and a scatterplot of offensive vs. defensive box plus-minus with points labeled using gghighlight and ggrepel packages.

Storytelling with R

talks
R
data visualization
ggplot2

Interactive website and slides on storytelling and data visualization with R from a talk given to a data journalism class at Northeastern.

Mar 28, 2019
Cover slide with San Francisco skyline in the background. On the right the title reads 'Sustainers of the Tidyverse' with Mara Averick, tidyverse developer adovcate, RStudio written below. On the left is a large circular badge reading San Francisco H2O.ai H2O World 2019.

Sustainers of the tidyverse — H2O World

talks
video
R
tidyverse
open source
sci-comm

Video and slides from my talk at H2O World SF on the technical tools, virtual spaces, and social norms that have empowered community contributions to the tidyverse.

Feb 9, 2019
Sustainers of the tidyverse written on a celestial background. In the bottom right corner the author and affiliation are written: Mara Averick, tidyverse developer advocate, RStudio.

MLOSS 2018: Sustainable communities

talks
R
tidyverse
open source
sci-comm

Slides and resources from my invited presentation at the Machine Learning Open Source Software (MLOSS) workshop on sustainable communities at NeurIPS 2018.

Dec 8, 2018
Bold black title on white background reads 'how i found your answer'. Speaker information is in lower right corner: Mara Averick, Tidyverse Developer Advocate, RStudio.

How I Found Your Answer — DC R 2018

talks
video
R
sci-comm

Video and slides from my talk at the first annual DC R Conference on helping others troubleshoot their code, and helping yourself in the process.

Nov 9, 2018
Phrasing written in bold white letters on a black background. Beneath, the subtitle reads: communicating data science through gifs, tweets, and classic misdirection.

Phrasing — NYR 2018

talks
video
R
sci-comm

Video and slides from my talk at the New York R Conference, Phrasing: Communicating data science through gifs, tweets, and classic misdirection.

Apr 21, 2018
Title reads: contributing to the tidyverse, with author information below: Mara Averick, tidyverse developer advocate. Left-hand side shows a blue bar with the rstudioconf logo.

Contributing to the tidyverse

talks
video
R
open source
tidyverse

This talk covers the strategies and mechanics of making contributions to ‘mature’ open-source projects, with a particular focus on the tidyverse.

Feb 3, 2018
Title reads: 'Phrasing: communicating data science through gifs, tweets, and classic misdirection', followed by author information below: Mara Averick, tidyverse developer advocate. Left-hand side shows a blue bar with the rstudioconf logo.

Phrasing: Communicating data science through tweets, gifs, and classic misdirection

talks
video
R
sci-comm

This talk from rstudio::conf(2018) takes you whirlwind tour through the lighter side of learning and communicating data science.

Feb 2, 2018
Title reads Pilgrim's Progress with the subtitle below that reads a journey from confusion to contribution. A decorative picture of a forest with mist is in the center of the slide.

Data Day Texas 2018

talks
R
open source
tidyverse

Slides from Pilgrim’s Progress: A journey from confusion to contribution, my talk given at Data Day Texas 2018 on my own early contributions to the tidyverse and R packages, and how others can follow suit.

Jan 25, 2018
leaRning out loud written in bold type on a black background with the R in learning highlighted in green. Below, it reads EARL 2017.

LeaRning Out Loud

talks
R
sci-comm

Slides from my keynote at EARL Boston on contributing to the R community by learning data science ‘out loud.’

Nov 3, 2017
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