Publications by Mango Blogger
Lewis Rendell: What I Learnt At Mango Solutions
By Lewis Rendell, R Consultant Intern, Mango Solutions As a mathematics and statistics student, R has been invaluable during my studies. With the number of packages available for data analysis and the ease with which simple and complex functions can be written, R has essentially become my ‘mother tongue’ when it comes to programming. Having o...
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London Vs Boston
By Paulin Shek Following the great success of the EARL conference in London earlier this month, our attention now turns to EARL Boston which will take place between 2-4th November just across the pond; the competition is already on to see which will come out top in 2015!! With presentations, speakers and venues as different and diverse as the c...
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Integrating Python and R into a Data Analysis Pipeline – Part 1
For a conference in the R language, EARL London 2015 saw a surprising number of discussions about Python. I like to think that at least some of this was to do with the fact that the day before the conference, we ran a 3-hour workshop outlining various strategies for integrating Python and R. This is the first in a series of three blog posts that:...
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ModSpace/Navigator – Performance when a SSD is introduced
Mango Solutions is always looking for ways to improve the performance of our flagship products – the demo below highlights the latest enhancements to the Navigator Workbench GA3 release this month when run on SSDs (Solid State Drives) – a huge increase in performance to the application overall. This demo is for performance purposes only – ...
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10 Top Tips For Becoming A Better Coder!
By Steph Locke We polled our consultants for their tips on how to be more effective at writing R code; and here are the top 10! 10. Don’t pre-emptively tidy Spending time on formatting as you go along gives you a cause to procrastinate plus it’s hard to make things consistent. Instead of worrying about it, let a linter like formatR do it for...
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Happy World Statistics Day 2015!
By Paulin Shek Today is World Statistics Day . In celebration of this, here are my top 5 examples of fun applications of statistics. 1. The British Medical Journal publishes a Christmas edition every year. My favourite article dates back to 2005, but addresses a problem that is very relevant to daily life in the Mango office- missing teaspoons! ...
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Mango at SQL Relay!
By Steph Locke SQL Relay is an annual conference around SQL Server and related tech. It hits six to ten cities in the space of a fortnight, touring the country offering free and awesome training on SQL Server, Business Intelligence and this year Analytics. Mango very kindly supported my endeavours at SQL Relay achieving Supporter status by enabli...
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Integrating Python and R Part II – Executing R from Python and Vice Versa
By Chris Musselle In a previous article we went over why you might want to integrate both R and Python into a single pipeline, and how to do so via the use of a flat file air-gap. In doing so we covered how to run a Python or R script from the command line, and how to access any additional arguments that are parsed in. In this post we complete t...
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Mango at RBelgium: Analytical Web Services
Last week Mango Solutions’ Principal Consultant, Stephanie Locke, presented Analytical Web Services for the RBelgium user group. Check out the full recording of her presentation here: Analytical Web Services : In your day job, you might build some awesome bits of analysis in R; but now people want this information available real time and again...
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Coming Soon -The Data Science Radar: The Pursuit of the Unicorn!
By Hannah Evans “By 2018, the United States will experience a shortage of 190,000 skilled data scientists and 1.5 million managers and analysts capable of reaping actionable insights from the big data deluge.” (McKinsey) The ‘data scientist’: an increasingly valuable, yet rare breed of individual, indispensable to any organisation of t...
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