Publications by Gergely Daróczi

satRdays are coming

08.01.2016

It’s been only around 2 months since the idea of community-driven R conferences was born, when Steph Locke first talked publicly about this cool conception, but I am pretty sure we will be able to attend at least one or two satRdays in 2016 — as the project received many and very positive feedback on GitHub, Twitter and in-person...

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satRdays are coming

08.01.2016

It’s been only around 2 months since the idea of community-driven R conferences was born, when Steph Locke first talked publicly about this cool conception, but I am pretty sure we will be able to attend at least one or two satRdays in 2016 — as the project received many and very positive feedback on GitHub, Twitter and in-person...

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R projects at Google Summer of Code 2016

01.03.2016

This is the 12th year Google offering grants to students living (almost) anywhere in the world for working on various open-source projects at the summer, and R was again selected as a GSoC mentor organization, just like in eg 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014 or 2015.In short, Google offers $5,000 to the accepted students to work on open...

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R projects at Google Summer of Code 2016

01.03.2016

This is the 12th year Google offering grants to students living (almost) anywhere in the world for working on various open-source projects at the summer, and R was again selected as a GSoC mentor organization, just like in eg 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014 or 2015.In short, Google offers $5,000 to the accepted students to work on open...

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satRdays are go!

01.04.2016

Steph Locke has already written about this last week, so just a quick follow-up on R-bloggers to share the great news with a wider audience: the R Consortium agreed to the support satRdays!A quick reminder on the project:satRdays are SQLSaturday-inspired, community-driven, one-day, free or very cheap and regional conferences — acting as a brid...

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satRdays are go!

01.04.2016

Steph Locke has already written about this last week, so just a quick follow-up on R-bloggers to share the great news with a wider audience: the R Consortium agreed to the support satRdays!A quick reminder on the project:satRdays are SQLSaturday-inspired, community-driven, one-day, free or very cheap and regional conferences — acting as a brid...

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satRday conference in September 2016 at Budapest

23.06.2016

As you probably already know, satRdays are go — and the location of the first three events in the series is now also decided:Budapest, HungarySan Juan, Puerto RicoCape Town, South AfricaTo help to organize such community-driven, regional R conferences or simply to get more details about these events, please visit the project homepage (hosted o...

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satRday conference in September 2016 at Budapest

23.06.2016

As you probably already know, satRdays are go — and the location of the first three events in the series is now also decided:Budapest, HungarySan Juan, Puerto RicoCape Town, South AfricaTo help to organize such community-driven, regional R conferences or simply to get more details about these events, please visit the project homepage (hosted o...

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satRday conference @ Budapest next week

27.08.2016

There’s only one week left until the very first satRdays event all around the world!This is a very exciting project with great interest from the R and more general data science community — in the past short 2 months (since we opened registration for the conference):More than 160 persons signed up and paid for attendance from 17 countries so f...

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The start of satRdays

08.09.2016

This post was originally shared on the R Consortium blog.Almost 200 people from 19 countries registered for the first satRday conference which was held last Saturday, September 3rd, in Budapest. The final count showed that nearly 170 R users spent 12 hours at the conference venue attending workshops, regular and lighting talks, social events and ...

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