2018-09-03: Trip Report for useR! 2018 Conference

This year I was really lucky to get my abstract and poster accepted for useR! 2018 conference . The UseR! conference is an annual worldwide conference for international R users and developer community. The fourteenth annual conference was held in the Southern hemisphere in Brisbane, Australia from July 10-13, 2018. This four-day conference consists of nineteen 3-hour tutorials, seven keynote speeches, and more than 200 contributed talks, lightning talks and posters on using, extending, and deploying R. This year, the program successfully gathered almost 600 users of the data analysis language R , from all corners of the world from various expertise levels of R . Distribution map of useR! 2018 participants across the globe Fortunately, I was also granted a travel scholarship from the useR! 2018 and could attend the conference including the tutorial sessions for free (thanks useR! 2018 ). 16 travel scholarships have been awarded, with 9 domestic and 7 internationa