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EARL London 2016 revisited – Day 1
This year’s EARL conference in London was another huge success. In this blogpost we revisit some of the presentations from Day 1. In stream 1 the conference started off with a presentation about recommender systems at the Telegraph by Magda Piatkowska. When you think recommender systems Netflix and Amazon immediately come to mind but the proble...
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EARL London 2016 revisited – Day 2
This year’s conference was a great opportunity to catch up with friends and meet new people who are eager to talk about their work with R. We enjoyed the sessions we attended and thought that the presenters were entertaining as well as interesting. On the second day stream 1 was packed because of two very interesting speakers. Jerome Durussel f...
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R’s Testing Predicament
Joe Russell If you were to ask any R-user for the reason for R’s success, you’re almost guaranteed to hear the words “open source”. As the second most popular open source language (behind Python) R has exploded in popularity in recent years. This, however, brings with it challenges that must be addressed. Here at Mango we have written o...
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How long do I have to survive without cake?
Clara Schartner As part of my summer internship at Mango I got to help out creating training materials. Learning new methods by preparing them in a teachable way is definitely my new favourite way of learning! But once I started preparing training material for Survival Analysis I faced an issue: whilst Survival Analysis is used for many different...
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EARL Boston Revisited
After a successful EARL London in September of this year (see here and here) it was Boston’s turn to shine. This is only the second time this conference has run, yet its quality of speakers is at par with London. This year’s edition welcomed twenty presenters from eight industries and saw almost a hundred attendees, yet another showcase for R...
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Tidy Text Mining of David Bowie’s Lyrics
by Nic Crane After hearing about tidytext from colleagues who went to the RStudio conference last month, I decided to try it out. If you want to try out tidy text mining for yourself, check out the official website at http://tidytextmining.com. Legendary performer David Bowie would have been 70 earlier this month, and as a tribute to his impressi...
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sasMap: static code analysis for SAS
Ava Yang You may drop your weapons, this is not going to be about SAS vs R. If you work with a large amount of SAS legacy code, sasMap, an R package with a Shiny app, is for you. It evolved from our experience in migrating SAS to R, see Mark Sellor’s post about production R at ONS for an example. Disclaimer: there’s no such thing as SAS-to-R ...
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Installing Packages without Internet
Graham Parsons At Mango we’re often giving R training in locations where a reliable WiFi connection is not always guaranteed, so if we need trainees to download packages from CRAN it can be a show-stopper. Here are a couple of code snippets that are useful to download packages from CRAN onto a USB stick when you have a good connection and then ...
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