Publications by Laura Swales
Exploring the Stack Overflow Dev Survey with Shiny – part 1
The challenge Recently I saw that StackOverflow released their survey data and had been posted on Kaggle. The data came with the following context “Want to dive into the results yourself and see what you can learn about salaries or machine learning or diversity in tech?” and given that June is indeed shiny-appreciation month, I thought th...
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EARL US Roadshow 2018 – agenda announced
We are delighted to announce that the full EARL US Roadshow agendas are now available! Each city has a different line-up of world-class speakers and R experts for you to explore. EARL focuses on the business application of R and will showcase many fascinating and inspiring use cases from a range of industry sectors. We wanted to share with you ju...
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America – get ready for EARL!
With another brilliant EARL London behind us, we are now looking forward to bringing the conference to the US with three one day EARL Roadshow events! We couldn’t be more excited to bring the latest and greatest in R to three cities across America: Seattle – 7 November Houston – 9 November Boston – 13 November With speakers from a huge ...
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EARL Houston: Interview with Hadley Wickham
Can you tell us about your upcoming keynote at EARL and what the key take-home messages will be for delegates? I’m going to talk about functional programming which I think is one of the most important programming techniques used with R. It’s not something you need on day 1 as a data scientist but it gives you some really powerful tools for re...
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How to become a Mango
At Mango, we talk a lot about going on a ‘data-driven journey’ with your business. We’re passionate about data and getting the best use out of it. But for now, instead of looking at business journeys, I wanted to talk to the Mango team and find out how they started on their own ‘data journey’ – what attracted them to a career in dat...
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EARL London abstract submission deadline – 31 March
“EARL is a great Conference: it gives the opportunity of connecting with other companies that are using R for data analysis and getting inspired by their stories.” We have been delighted to already receive a host of interesting and brilliant abstracts for EARL London 2019, and there’s still time to submit yours! The Enterprise Application...
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One week EARL London abstract extension – 8 April
Due to quite a few panicked email requests over the weekend we have decided to extend the EARL London abstract deadline until 8 April. Thank you so much to all the people that have already submitted, we can’t wait to look through all of the brilliant submissions. Submit your abstract here. Related To leave a comment for the author, please ...
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Data: a cultural transformation and not a quick fix
Amid stronger business competition than ever before, companies need to do more than simply embrace buzzwords or trends. It’s something we see all the time when out in the field talking to customers, or speaking at events. When it comes to the role of data, the emphasis should instead be on instilling transformation into the very DNA of an organ...
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EARL London keynote speaker announcement – Julia Silge
We are thrilled to announce that Julia Silge from Stack Overflow will join us at EARL London (10-12 September) as a keynote speaker. After wowing us all at EARL Seattle last year we knew we had to get Julia over to London! About Julia Silge Julia Silge is a data scientist at Stack Overflow, with a PhD in astrophysics and an abiding love for Jane...
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EARL London 2019 speakers announced
We were thrilled with the overall quality and amount of abstracts we received for this year’s EARL London Conference. Which made our job of selecting the final speakers even more difficult! We are pleased to share with you the speakers for EARL London 2019 – we will be interviewing some of our speakers over the next few months, so you can fin...
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