R User Group Meetup - Thursday 20 August 2026

​🗓 Date: Thursday, 20 August 2026, 7 PM - 9PM
🗺 Location: Autodesk Asia, 3 Fusionopolis Way, Symbiosis, Singapore 138633

​Title: What Teaching R to Psychology Undergraduates Has Taught Me

​Many of us picked up R because we wanted to. My students? Not so much.

​Every year, I teach a large cohort of psychology undergraduates to use R in a compulsory research methods course. Most have little to no programming/data science background.

​In this talk, I'll share what I've learned from teaching R to these students — what worked and what did not. I'll also discuss the use of GenAI in learning R — how it can be an excellent tutor, but also deprive one’s opportunity to develop genuine coding skills.

​Speaker: Asst. Prof Yu Junhong

​Junhong is a lecturer and brain imaging researcher at NTU, where he directs the Cognitive and Brain Health Laboratory. He also serves as an honorary assistant professor at the Yeo Boon Khim Mind Science Centre in NUS.