Publications by Mango Solutions
All Paths Lead to the EARL Conference with ggplot2 & ggmap
By Rich Pugh, Commercial Director I was recently at LondonR, where I saw James Cheshire discussing the ways in which he created stunning maps for his book, London: The Information Capital, using R. If you want a glimpse of James’ presentation, have a look at his website: spatial.ly. I’ve not drawn maps for a while in R, so the code on J...
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The 2015 Strata + Hadoop World London
By Mark Sellors, Mango UK On Tuesday 5th of May, O’Reilly Media and Cloudera, a distributor of a Hadoop based big data platform, brought their ‘Strata + Hadoop World‘ conference to London. The conference features a mixture of Data Science, Big Data and business data strategy. Click for the full size image A plot produced using a quick scori...
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Data Science Tweet Analysis – What tools are people talking about?
By Chris Musselle PhD, Mango UK At Mango we use a variety of tools in-house to address our clients’ business needs and when these fall within the data science arena, the main candidates we turn to are either the R or Python programming languages. The question as to which is the “best” language for doing data science is a hotly debated top...
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R: the Excel Connection
By Andy Nicholls, Head of Consulting As companies increasingly look beyond the scope of what is logistically possible in Excel more and more companies are approaching Mango looking for help with connecting to Excel from R. With over 6,500 packages now on CRAN it should come as no surprise that there are quite a few packages that have be written i...
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Analysing the Twitter Mentions Network
By Douglas Ashton, Consultant One of the big successes of data analytics is the cultural change in how business decisions are being made. There is now wide spread acceptance of the role that data science has to play in decision making. With the explosion in the quantity of data available, the task for the modern analyst is to filter through to fi...
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R man (chester) in the North…
By Andrew Vodden, Account Manager The Manchester R user group met last Tuesday in a temporary venue next to the Manchester Art Gallery in the city centre. We had a full house and were delighted to welcome representatives from both Manchester Universities as well as a number of leading research institutions. The commercial sector was again well r...
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LondonR June Meeting
The Mango Solutions LondonR meeting at UCL on Monday 15th June 2015 was successful as usual with over 200 attendees throughout the day. Thanks to everyone who attended to help make the event such a success. It was great to see some new and old (not literally) faces. The afternoon started with a super workshop from Mango’s Head of Consulting An...
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URL Originality Analysis
By Chris Campbell, Senior Consultant. When I first heard about Twitter, it was described to me as love, life and the story of the world, summarized in 140 characters or less. Each snippet of information is like a beautiful haiku, perfectly capturing the essence of events. A moment captured in amber. Of course now I know what Twitter is, perhaps l...
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The Single Most Important Skill for a Data Scientist
By Richard Pugh, Commercial Director I love my job. Seriously. I was enjoying it before Hal Varian made it sexy, but since then, and the data science explosion, everything has kicked into an even higher gear. Why do I love it? Because fundamentally, our job as data scientists is to help people make better decisions based on the informatio...
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PRESS RELEASE: Mango Solutions and The R Consortium
Mango Solutions announces its key involvement with the newly launched R Consortium to support millions of users around the world Mango Solutions, the leading data science company based in Europe and with offices in the UK and China are pleased to announce that they are one of the founding organisations of the recently launched R Consortium. The ...
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