Publications by Mango Solutions
The R Consortium: what does it mean for me?
By Andy Nicholls, Head of Consulting Earlier this week a press release from the Linux Foundation formally unveiled The R Consortium: “a group of businesses organized under an open source governance and foundation model to provide support to the R community, the R Foundation and groups and individuals, using, maintaining and distributing R soft...
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Mango Solutions at UseR!2015
by Aimee Gott It probably hasn’t escaped your notice that last week Aalborg, Denmark played host to the annual UseR conference. This is an annual R conference bringing together users and developers from academia and industry. With a record 650 attendees, I think it’s fair to say it was a huge success. It was fantastic to see such a huge...
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EARL2015 Boston Keynote Speakers announced
We are delighted to announce that the keynote speakers for EARL 2015 in Boston which takes place on 2nd-4th November will be David Smith, Garrett Grolemund, John Thompson and Richard Pugh David Smith is the R Community Lead at Revolution Analytics, a Microsoft company. With a background in data science, he writes daily about applications of R a...
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Overview of R Workshops at London EARL 2015
EARL (Effective Applications of the R Language) is a Conference organised by Mango Solutions for users and developers of the open source R programming language. The primary focus of the Conference will be the commercial usage of R across a range of industry sectors with the aim of sharing knowledge and applications of the language. The Pre-Con...
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EARL2015 Conference, Boston – Full Agenda Announced
By Liz Matthews, Marketing and Events UK We are delighted to announce the full agenda for the EARL2015 Conference which takes place at the Microsoft NERD Center in Boston in November. The conference will feature : 4 pre-conference workshops 4 Keynote Presentations 38 Presentations from leading R and industry practitioners 2 Evening Events E...
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Mango Solutions co-Founder announced as inaugural President of newly launched R Consortium
In July 2015, Mango Solutions, the leading data science software and services company, announced their membership of the recently launched R Consortium. Mango are delighted to announce that their co-Founder and Chief Data Scientist, Richard Pugh, has been elected as the inaugural President of the R Consortium. As per the blog post released on t...
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Win a FREE ticket to EARL London!
Competition Time! Mango Solutions are offering an opportunity to win a FREE two day Conference Pass* to the EARL (Effective Application of the R Language) Conference in London on the 14th-16th September. *Value £545 To Enter: Email [email protected] with your name and a one sentence reply to the following question: Why I use (or am consideri...
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ManchesterR Meetup in August 2015
The quarterly Manchester R meeting took place last night. It was our first experience of the striking new HOME venue just past Oxford Road station. The Cornerhouse team have exchanged the bohemian charm of the old venue for the light and open design reminiscent of the Tate Modern. The feedback on the venue was overwhelmingly positive. The...
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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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Why I would rather use ReporteRs than RMarkdown
Aimee Gott Over the last year I have been involved in a large number of training courses and projects that have involved reporting in Microsoft Excel, Word and Powerpoint in some way. However, my default is not to jump straight to dynamic reporting tools like knitr and RMarkdown or Shiny. Why? Because for the majority of R’s commercial audience...
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