Publications by Mango Blogger
magrittr: The best thing to have ever happened to R?
By Aimee Gott At EARL 2014 I saw Hadley Wickham using the pipe operator from Stefan Milton Bache’s magrittr whilst also presenting the functionality of dplyr. I remember thinking at the time that this was going to be the new way to write R code and knew I would end up teaching this operator in many a training course. A year on and not a trainin...
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The Lady Loves Statistics
By Paulin Shek Working at Mango is generally busy, fun, but also at times, quite surreal. Lunchtime conversation amongst the consultants can get quite animated, especially when Andy Nicholls, the Head of Consultancy, finds a topic that he has a strong opinion on. Today, it was chocolate. In Andy’s mind, chocolate falls into two categories: “C...
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Why Submitting Ideas To The R Consortium Is A Good Idea
By Steph Locke Announced in June 2015, the R Consortium aims to support the R ecosystem and community and help grow the adoption of R. To deliver on these aims, the R Consortium has an Infrastructure Steering Committee (ISC). The ISC are responsible for directing technical focus and overseeing projects to deliver improvements. You’ll note in al...
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Launching the Data Science Radar!
By Steph Locke Here at Mango Solutions, we do a lot of data science consultancy work. This means we face the challenges that any organisation looking to build and maintain a data science facility face. The principal challenge is acquiring the right skill-sets and understanding our team. To help us, we’ve developed a conceptual framework called ...
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Reflections from the Big Data Week Conference Part 1 – Data: The Bigger the Better?
By Hannah Evans Big Data Week London 2015: a festival of social data around the globe. Fantastically organised and executed by all, the event brings together 400 speakers in 40 different global cities to provide a series of workshops, training, user groups and conference to business and technical audiences in this unique week-long celebration. T...
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Reflections from the Big Data Week Conference Part 2: Technology Track
By Paulin Shek Despite being only a day conference, a large range of topics were covered over many sectors, with a very long list of impressive speakers. This event was a great opportunity to see what technologies and architectures work for companies such as Betfair and Excelian. The questions asked were intelligent and thought-provoking and gav...
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Data Science Radar – Programmer Profile
by Doug Ashton, Mango Solutions @dougashton Doug Ashton Data Science Radar – Nov 2015 1. Tell us a bit about your background in Data Science. I was a physicist for 10 years where I used Monte Carlo simulations to solve problems in materials and networks. Anything with lots of interacting components was my domain. Since moving to Data Science...
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Data Science Radar – Data Wrangler Profile
by Steph Locke, Mango Solutions @SteffLocke Steph Locke Data Science Radar – Nov 2015 1. Tell us a bit about your background in Data Science I started off as a Product Analyst doing a bit of this, a bit of that, but moved into a Data Analyst role on a search for more data. My Data Analyst role swiftly moved into a Business Intelligence role wh...
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Work Smarter and Not Harder
by Brian Mitchell, Mango Solutions Here at Mango we take testing very seriously and as the automated tester in the company I take it more seriously than most. Automated testing does exactly what it says on the tin, it allows you to automate a number of test scenarios. We use specialised software to simulate mouse clicks and keyboard entry and wri...
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Data Science Radar – Visualiser Profile
by Kate Ross-Smith, Mango Solutions @LaSystemistaria 1. Tell us a bit about your background in Data Science. I’m not sure I have one. I trained as a Design Engineer and then a Systems Engineer, and up until now I’ve worked as an engineer and a project manager. In both of these roles, most of the time you’re analysing existing operations ...
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