About BRUG
BRUG — the Badger R Users Group — is a community of practice for researchers, scientists, and students who code in R at UW–Madison. We are grounded in the Wisconsin Idea: start on campus, remain open, propagate outward.
What we do
We give R users a place to share tools, strategies, victories, and woes — and to find help. In practice that means in-person meetups with tutorials, talks, and workflow demonstrations; a mailing list and chat workspace for ongoing conversation; and The Burrows, this site, where members can contribute resources directly via pull request. Contributing to the site is itself a small demonstration of the reproducible workflow BRUG is built around.
Our logo
The R³ die — R in Reproducible Research — is an isometric die with an R on each face. Three faces, three commitments: to the language, to reproducibility, and to research that others can build on.
Our mascot
Bitsey the Reproducible Badger is BRUG’s mascot — an anime-inspired distant cousin of Bucky, equally at home in a terminal as on a football field. Bitsey shows up wearing a BRUG hoodie and an expression that suggests your code could stand to be a little more reproducible.
Who we are for
Anyone who writes R code at UW–Madison — graduate students, postdocs, faculty, staff researchers, and undergraduates. No experience level required. BRUG begins on campus but remains open and useful beyond university boundaries, consistent with the Wisconsin Idea that education should propagate outward into the world.