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No time wasting
Ensuring your analytic IP is given the attention it deserves It is now widely recognised that data is the key to making informed business decisions. As such, models and code are the tools used to extract insight and should be considered very valuable IP for an organisation. Considering data as a valuable asset, it’s important to store it so it�...
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Oh, the places you’ll go – mapping packages
by Aimée Gott, Senior Consultant If you follow us on Twitter you might have noticed that Mango has been doing a bit of travelling this summer. He’s been to San Francisco for the EARL conference, Brussels for UseR, as well as a few other places to teach some training courses. He even managed to sneak in a little holiday in LA where he was disap...
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Fun data: open data that is fun to analyse
Joe Russell, Adnan Fiaz Jeremy Singer-Vine sends out a newsletter every week where he highlights a number of interesting open datasets (you can explore all the datasets here). At Mango we are all for open data so we thought we would also share some of the open datasets we think are fun to explore. Open Food Facts Food prices North Korea Missile ...
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Boston EARL Keynote speaker announcement: Mara Averick
Mango Solutions are excited to announce that Mara Averick, who many know as @dataandme on Twitter, will be joining us at Boston EARL on 1-3 November as one of our keynote speakers! Mara is a polymath and self-confessed data nerd. With a strong background in research, she has a breadth of experience in data analysis, visualization, and application...
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The Twitter Waterflow Problem
Nathan Eastwood, Data Scientist I was recently introduced to the Twitter Waterflow Problem and I decided it was interesting enough to try and complete the challenge in R. Consider the following picture: This plot shows a series of walls and empty valleys. We can represent this picture by an array of integers, where the value at each index is th...
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