Copilot for R

This is the repository supporting the presentation "Copilot for R".

• Presenter & Author: David Smith, Principal Cloud Advocate at Microsoft
• Presented at: New York Open Statistical Programming Meetup, 28 February 2023. See this repo on the date it was presented.
• Presentation slides: PDF
• Presentation video: YouTube

Demos

• Copilot with R
• Azure OpenAI Service API

You can recreate the demos in the talk using the steps described in demo-instructions.md.

Resources

• GitHub Copilot extension for VS Code
• About GitHub Copilot
  • GitHub Copilot FAQs
• GitHub Codespaces
• Visual Studio Code - Free editor available for Windows, Mac and Linux
• Azure OpenAI Service
• Microsoft’s framework for building AI systems responsibly and Responsible AI Standard, v2

References

• ChatGPT Is a Blurry JPEG of the Web, Ted Chiang, The New Yorker (February 9, 2023)
• Machine Learning for Beginners, source of the pumpkins dataset used in the demo

Thanks to

• Damian Brady (GitHub), for many of the slides
• Iegor Rudnytskyi, author of the openai package.

Image Credits

Images used in presentation slides:

• "Bit" artwork by Ashley Willis

Feedback

If you have any comments or suggestions about this presentation, please leave an issue in this repository.