Publications by Mango Solutions
Scale up your interest: key steps for getting into data science
Owen Jones, Placement Student Prelude Maybe you’re looking for a change of scene. Maybe you’re looking for your first job. Maybe you’re stuck in conversation with a relative who you haven’t spoken to since last Christmas and who has astonishingly strong opinions on whether cells ought to be merged or not in Excel spreadsheets. The fact of...
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Join us for some R and Data Science knowledge sharing in 2018
We’re proud to be part of the Data Science and R communities. We recognise the importance of knowledge sharing across industries, helping people with their personal and professional development, networking, and collaboration in improving and growing the community. This is why we run a number of events and participate in many others. Each year,...
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The EARLy career scholarship
At Mango, we’re passionate about R and promoting its use in enterprise – it’s why we created the EARL Conferences. We understand the importance of sharing knowledge to generate new ideas and change the way organisations use R for the better. This year we are on a mission to actively encourage the attendance of R users who are either in a ve...
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In between a rock and a conditional join
Adnan Fiaz Joining two datasets is a common action we perform in our analyses. Almost all languages have a solution for this task: R has the built-in merge function or the family of join functions in the dplyr package, SQL has the JOIN operation and Python has the merge function from the pandas package. And without a doubt these cover a variety o...
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EARL Seattle Keynote Speaker announcement: Julia Silge
We’re delighted to announce that Julia Silge will be joining us on 7 November in Seattle as our Keynote speaker. Julia is a Data Scientist at Stack Overflow, has a PhD in astrophysics and an abiding love for Jane Austen (which we totally understand!). Before moving into Data Science and discovering R, Julia worked in academia and ed tech, and w...
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Love Machine: Automating the romantic songwriting process
Owen Jones, Placement Student Songwriting is a very mysterious process. It feels like creating something from nothing. It’s something I don’t feel like I really control. — Tracy Chapman It is February. The shortest, coldest, wettest, miserablest month of the British year. Only two things happen in Britain during February. For a single eve...
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Edwina Dunn to keynote at enterprise focused R language conference
MEDIA RELEASE 14 February 2018 Mango Solutions are delighted to announce that loyalty programme pioneer and data science innovator, Edwina Dunn, will keynote at the 2018 Enterprise Applications of the R Language (EARL) Conference in London on 11-13 September. Mango Solutions’ Chief Data Scientist, Richard Pugh, has said that it is a privilege t...
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Effective data analytics in Manufacturing
Data analytics is rapidly changing the face of manufacturing as we know it. At Mango, we’re seeing companies using their data effectively to gain an advantage over competitors. These companies are using data science to properly set up and control manufacturing For example, automatically adjusting parameters for specific parts/production lines ...
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EARL Houston Keynote Speaker announcement: Hadley Wickham
We told you EARL 2018 was going to be awesome! We’re excited to announce that Hadley Wickham will be the Keynote Speaker at our EARL Houston event on 9 November 2018. Technically, we think Hadley needs no introduction, but just in case… Hadley is Chief Scientist at RStudio, the company that created the most-used IDE for businesses and indivi...
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10 reasons why you should submit an abstract for EARL
Getting out of the office and making time to share our R stories and ideas can often slip down our to-do lists when we’re busy, but taking the opportunity to meet others face-to-face can have a hugely positive impact on you, and your company’s, growth. Becoming active in the R community can have many benefits and submitting an abstract to on...
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