Publications by Gergely Daróczi
Budapest BI and Open Analytics Forum: call for papers
Following last year’s tradition, I am happy to share some news on the forthcoming vendor-independent Budapest BI Forum to be hold between the 25th and 27th of November in Hungary.Beside learning about conventional business intelligence topics, there will be plenty of opportunities to master your R, open data and open analytics sk...
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Pander tables inside of knitr
Hadley Wickham opened my eyes that calling pander to generate nifty markdown tables inside of knitr requires a special chunk option, which bothersome extra step might be saved by updating pander a bit. So it’s done.In a nutshell, whenever you call pander inside of a knitr document, instead of returning the markdown text to the sta...
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Hungarian RUG guest speakers: Romain Francois and Matt Dowle
The Budapest Users of R Network, which is the only one active Hungarian R User Group so far, was founded a bit more than a year ago, and I was really happy to see more than 200 registrations before its first anniversary. The RUG proved to be active and popular in Hungary, which makes me feel extremely proud as a founder — thanks to ...
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pander 0.5.0: the next generation of markdown tables in R
A new version of pander was just released on CRAN with 200+ commits of new features, major performance updates and some minor fixes [changelog]. One of the minor technical changes, which might be major good news for the knitr users, is that there is no further need to specify asis in knitr chunks when calling pander – please ...
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Call for Papers at the Budapest BI and Open Analytics Forum
Last year, I was extremely happy to see the great success of the R community — dominating the Budapest BI Forum 2014 with 8 talks and 2 workshops on introductory and some hard-core R topics:“My Journey to R” plenary talk and “Fast and flexible data wrangling with data.table” workshop by Matt Dowle,“Introduction to the dply...
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Mastering Data Analysis with R
Sorry about the noisy post title, but it happens to be the name of the book I was working on in the past year, which has been just published at Packt:Although I do not think that reading this ~400 page book will turn everyone into a true master of R and data analysis, but I believe it can get you on the way. I wrote this book for a re...
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Mastering Data Analysis with R
Sorry about the noisy post title, but it happens to be the name of the book I was working on in the past year, which has been just published at Packt:Although I do not think that reading this ~400 page book will turn everyone into a true master of R and data analysis, but I believe it can get you on the way. I wrote this book for a re...
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R and Impala: it’s better to KISS than using Java
One of the best things I like in working at CARD.com is that I am not only crunching R code in 24/7, but I also have the chance to interact with and improve the related data infrastructure with some interesting technologies. After joining the company in January, I soon realized that while Impala is a very powerful database for handling data that ...
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Let’s meet on SatRdays: the link between RUGs and conferences
I am always very happy to attend local R meetups and international R conferences, as these are great opportunities tomeet other R users, developers, rock stars and friends from all around the world/GH/SO/Twitter etc, listen to inspiring presentations,have fun at lightning talks andgive birth or see others giving birth to exciting new...
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Let’s meet on SatRdays: the link between RUGs and conferences
I am always very happy to attend local R meetups and international R conferences, as these are great opportunities tomeet other R users, developers, rock stars and friends from all around the world/GH/SO/Twitter etc, listen to inspiring presentations,have fun at lightning talks andgive birth or see others giving birth to exciting new...
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