Publications by Eduardo Ariño de la Rubia
Announcing the DSLA Podcast!
You’ve asked and we’ve listened. The audio content from our DataScience.LA interviews will now be released as a podcast! Check us out on iTunes or point your podcast app to here! We’ve already released the audio from the userR! conference interviews of Hadley Wickham, Max Kuhn, and Tal Galili on iTunes and hope to release upcoming interv...
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A Conversation with Tal Galili at useR! 2014
“One can acquire everything in solitude except character.” ― Stendhal The Interview Tal Galili is, in many ways, a central spoke of the R community. Both gregarious and thoughtful, he has grown his website R-bloggers into the definitive aggregation of the R community’s voice through his genuine, passion-driven intensity. Tal had a simp...
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R in Production – Opening Talk by Yasmin Lucero – LA R meetup @ useR! 2014
(Please click here if the video above doesn’t load.) During useR! 2014, the LA R Meetup (run by Szilard Pafka) organized an event focused on R’s status in industry. This event took the form of a presentation by Yasmin Lucero, Senior Statistician at AOL-Gravity, followed by a panel discussion. The video above captures the presentation, where Y...
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R in Production – Panel Discussion – LA R meetup @ useR! 2014
(Please click here if the video above doesn’t load.) The video above is from an event at useR! 2014 consisting of Yasmin Lucero’s presentation plus an incredible panel discussion, which is included here. The title of the panel was “R’s Place in the Production Environment”, and was moderated by Tareef Kawaf, President at RStudio. Five h...
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David Smith, the useR! 2014 Interview
“At one point, the only source for daily R news was David Smith’s blog.” — Szilard Pafka David Smith is an integral part of the R community. His background in computational statistics goes back to the early 90s . David has worked at Revolution R, one of the leading R companies, for nearly a decade. His name has been included in lists su...
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Matt Dowle’s data.table Talk from useR! 2014
Matt Dowle holds a wealth of knowledge and is worth listening to for a variety of reasons. He has worked for some of the world’s largest financial organizations, holding positions at the focal point between money and data. He has been programming in R for well over a decade. He has lived the open source mantra, by not only consuming open source...
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Yihui Xie, the useR! 2014 Interview
In science consensus is irrelevant. What is relevant is reproducible results. The greatest scientists in history are great precisely because they broke with the consensus. – Michael Crichton Yihui Xie intended to make it easier to do his homework, but instead found himself tackling one of the greatest problems in modern science: the reproduc...
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Shiny: R made interactive @ useR! 2014
At useR! 2014, one of the most anticipated presentations was Joe Cheng’s Shiny: R made interactive. It was but one of the of a fantastic series of talks by RStudio representatives; check out Winston Chang’s ggvis: Interactive graphics in R for another great talk. Shiny begins with your R code and ends with the customer’s view: an interactiv...
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Heather Turner, the useR! 2014 Interview
Heather Turner is a biostatistician and Senior Research Fellow at the University of Warwick, as well as a consultant. She is a former editor of the R Journal, was a local organizer for the useR! 2011 conference, and holds a wealth of information about the field of data science, the state of the technology, and the wider community. As an academi...
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Martin Maechler Invited Talk at useR! 2014 – Good Practices in R Programming
Martin Maechler is a member of R-Core. This distinction puts him in the very apex of understanding of the R programming language and environment. He is a professor of statistics with wide and varied interests and a leading expert in statistical computing environments. He is also a prolific programmer, evidenced by his maintenance of the officiall...
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