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10 reasons to attend EARL in San Francisco
The reasons someone might attend a conferences differ from person to person so we crowdsourced the top 10 reasons you should attend EARL San Francisco. 1. Learn something new. This is a pretty obvious one and we’ve got an excellent agenda that covers a range of industries and R projects, including: Gabriela de Queiroz from SelfScore talking pr...
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Installing packages without the internet
Graham Parsons At Mango we’re often giving R training in locations where a reliable WiFi connection is not always guaranteed, so if we need trainees to download packages from CRAN it can be a show-stopper. Here are a couple of code snippets that are useful to download packages from CRAN onto a USB stick when you have a good connection and then ...
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New EARL Conference App
Get the most out of the EARL Conference with the new phone app, available on iTunes and Google play. View the agenda, speakers, and sponsors in the palm of your hand. Bookmark the sessions you’d like to attend and rate them when they’re finished. You can even stay up-to-date with the #EARLConf2017 Twitter feed without switching apps. Just dow...
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EARL Program Optimisation
Next week will be the first EARL conference in San Francisco.. The team here at Mango have worked hard to put together an excellent program with great speakers. However with so many interesting talks it can be hard to decide which to attend. For example, Rich Pugh is a huge fan of Shiny and would like to attend all talks involving Shiny. Of cours...
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EARL London agenda – top picks
Nic Crane, Data Scientist The agenda for EARL London has just been released, and with three streams running in parallel, I always like to pick which talks I’ll be going to in advance, to make sure I get the most out of the conference. Here are my top picks so far: Derek Norton, Microsoft: “SAS to R: How to, and is it enough?” – Day 1, 11...
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The faces of #rstats: a (brief) exploration of gender in the R community
Update 29/06/2017: The approach outlined in this blogpost was taken under the assumption that gender is binary but that is incorrect. Do read on as it might inspire you to do better and if you do wish to contribute to the topic check out Forwards. The representation of women in technology is gaining more and more attention. In the R community, R-...
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Submit an abstract for EARL Boston 2017
Mango Solutions are excited to announce that the venue and dates have now been confirmed for the third EARL Boston Conference. Delegates will enjoy a new vibe this year, with the Conference being held in the heart of Cambridge at The Charles Hotel on 1-3 November. EARL is a cross-sector Conference for commercial R users. The popular EARL format r...
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useR!2017 Day3 recap
Another day in the city of Brussels and another day of fantastic R talks at useR!2017. As mentioned in yesterday’s recap this conference is packed with great talks and it is hard to choose them. We weren’t able to attend all talks so we will definitely be checking out the livestreams after the conference. Morning We were overwhelmed by inter...
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Keynote speaker announcement: David Robinson – Stack Overflow
Mango Solutions are delighted to announce that David Robinson, Data Scientist at Stack Overflow, will be keynoting at EARL Boston 2017. David analyzes data on the world’s software developers to help them find answers to their programming questions and advance their careers. He is the co-author (with Julia Silge) of the tidytext package and the...
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Top reasons to send your team to EARL
It’s easy to get stuck in the day-to-day at the office and there’s never time to upskill or even think about career development. However, to really grow and develop your organisation, it’s important to grow and develop your team. While there are many ways to develop teams, including training and providing time to complete personal (and rele...
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