Publications by Mango Solutions
EARL London 2017 – That’s a wrap!
Beth Ashlee, Data Scientist After a successful first-ever EARL San Francisco in June, it was time to head back to the birth place EARL – London. With more abstracts submitted than ever before, the conference was made up of 54 fantastic talks and 5 key notes from an impressive selection of industries. With so many talks to pick from we thought w...
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EARL Boston must see sessions and 15% off!
We’re only a few weeks away! Don’t miss keynotes from Mara Averick, David Robinson and Tareef Kawaf! They will be joined by speakers from DataCamp, Crunch, Pfizer, GfK, Biogen, VideoBlocks, Microsoft, Oracle, TIBCO, and Sorensen Impact Center, just to name a few. The agenda covers a huge range of topics, including: Using Shiny in a commercia...
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Putting the cat in scatterplot
Clara Schartner, Data Scientist It will come as no surprise that cats and ggplot are among our favourite things here at Mango, luckily there is an easy way to combine both. Using the function annotation_custom in the popular ggplot2 package it is possible to display images on a plot i.e. points of a scatterplot. This way data can be displayed in ...
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Analysing EARL Tweets from EARL Tweeps
Adnan Fiaz With two out of three EARL conferences part of R history we’re really excited about the next EARL conference in Boston (only 1 week away!). This calls for an(other) EARL conference analysis, this time with Twitter data. Twitter is an amazingly rich data source and a great starting point for any data analysis (I feel there should be a...
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EARL Boston round up
Now we’ve recovered from over indulging in Boston’s culinary delights, we’re ready to share our highlights from this year’s EARL Boston Conference. Day 1 highlights Stack Overflow’s David Robinson kicked off the Conference, using Stack Overflow data to perform all sorts of interesting analyses. Highlights included trends in questions m...
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5 ways a SAS Health Check can simplify a transition to R
Nic Crane, Data Scientist At Mango, we’re seeing more and more clients making the decision to modernise their analytics process; moving away from SAS and on to R, Python, and other technologies. There are a variety of reasons for this, including SAS license costs, the increase of recent graduates with R and Python skills, SAS becoming increasin...
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When a Tweet Turns Into an R Package
Reproduced with the kind permission of our Head of Data Engineering, Mark Sellors and first published on his blog When a Tweet Turns Into an R Package Boy, that escalated quickly I just wanted to write up a brief post about the power of R, its community, and tell the story of how actually putting stuff out into the world can have amazing conse...
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ANNOUNCEMENT: EARL London 2018 + abstract submissions open!
We are thrilled to announce the dates for next year’s EARL London: 11-13 September 2018 (make sure you pop these dates in your calendars!). Call for abstracts Abstract submissions are now open! We’d love to hear from you if you want to share your R story. Every year, R users from all over the world submit fantastic abstracts around really coo...
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Field Guide to the R Ecosystem
Mark Sellors, Head of Data Engineering I started working with R around about 5 years ago. Parts of the R world have changed substantially over that time, while other parts remain largely the same. One thing that hasn’t changed however, is that there has never been a simple, high-level text to introduce newcomers to the ecosystem. I believe this...
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ANNOUNCEMENT: EARL US Roadshow + abstract submissions open
We’re very excited to announce a new format for the Enterprise Applications of the R Language Conference (EARL) in the US – a three-stop roadshow! We’ll be visiting three cities to get the conversation going about the commercial usage of R: Wednesday 7 November – Seattle, WA Friday 8 November – Houston, TX Tuesday 13 November – Bost...
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