AACL2026 Conference Registration
You can register for AACL2026 here: https://cvent.me/YOM99y
Registration fees
Students and postdocs: $200
Faculty: $300
Workshop: “Descriptive Statistics and Data Visualizations in R: The ‘Tidy’ Way”
Date: 17 April 2026, 9:30am-4pm, Reitz Union Matthews Suite
Workshop organizers: Tülay Dixon (Emory University) and Daniel Dixon (Georgia State University)
Description
To provide a systematic introduction to R, this workshop will focus on descriptive statistics and data visualizations using the `tidyverse` package, which is the primary package used by leading data scientists. Relying on the `tidyverse` package, this workshop will first provide a hands-on introduction to calculating descriptive statistics and then visualizing those statistics in R in an aesthetically pleasing manner. The descriptive statistics will include frequencies for categorical variables and mean, standard deviation, and five-number summary for numerical variables, all of which are common statistics in corpus linguistics research.
The data visualizations will cover bar plots, box plots, histograms, and scatter plots. Along the way, participants will learn to wrangle data by grouping data based on given variables, dropping NA observations, creating new variables based on existing variables, and filtering data based on desired parameters, among others. The workshop will also provide attendees with a list of resources should they continue their learning journey in R.
This workshop is for you if you want an accessible and systematic introduction to R while also learning how to produce descriptive statistics and data visualizations. We also welcome those who are comfortable using base R but have yet to learn the functions that come with the `tidyverse` package.
References
Muenchen, B. (2023). Update to data science software popularity. R-bloggers. https://www.r-bloggers.com/2023/06/update-to-data-science-software-popularity/
Smith, D. (2018). The R community is one of R’s best features. Revolution Analytics. https://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/06/r-community.html#:~:text=R%20is%20incredible%20software%20for,many%20different%20bloggers%20using%20R
Workshop Registration
To register for the R-workshop, please send an email to aacl2026@gmail.com. The workshop is free . There are 30 seats available. Seats will be awarded on a first-come, first-served basis. We will post here when the workshop is full.