Publications by Marcin Kosiński
Why R? 2018 Conference – After Movie and Summary
For us, R is not about packages and data analysis. It is about a vibrant community that creates all those wonderful toys. As the Why R? Foundation we want to take part in the growth of the R user base. One of our first efforts is the Why R? conference series with a unique community-oriented vibe. Before the main event, we co-organized twelve R m...
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Unpacking immigration collocations
As part of our road to detecting metaphors we got stuck on a simple problem: compound nouns. If you take the sentence: series of immigration policy changes Series modifies changes in reference to immigration policy, which is a compound noun. “Series of changes” is not what we would consider metaphorical usage, but our detector would label...
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Why R? 2019 Conference – Registration and Call for Papers Opened
Two editions of Why R? conferences were a great networking success. We gather 200-300 R enthusiasts from Europe during each edition and were able to host more than 25 workshops together. The hunger for a bigger event led us to the 3rd edition! About the Why R? 2019 conference Important dates KeynotesInstitute of Geoecology and Geoinformation, A...
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Why R? 2019 Conference – Keynotes and Workshops announced
Why R? is one of the best opportunities to learning secrets of data science from true experts. This year we are happy to invite you for six keynote presentations, one invited workshop and eight regular workshops. About the Why R? 2019 conference We are more than happy to announce that Why R? 2019 Conference will be organized by Why R? Foundatio...
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Why R? 2019 – Agenda Released + Regular Registration Ends Aug 31st!
A month ago we closed Call for Papers for Why R? 2019 Conference. Today we are pleased to announce the agenda! From over 75 submissions (from 4 continents) we finally selected 46 presentations (divided into 12 sessions), 15 lightning talks and 9 workshops!! Abstracts are already available here. To make the event even more interesting we invited...
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Organize Why R? 2019 pre-meeting in your city
Why R? pre-meetings are R meetups that support local R groups. They promote Why R? 2019 Conference. The purpose of those meetings is to provide the space for the professional networking and knowledge exchange, between practitioners and students, from the area of statistical machine learning, programming, optimization and data science fields. We...
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Why R? 2019 Conference – Summary
Why R? conferences have been the hallmark of the Why R? Foundation (whyr.pl). Our goal has been to establish a series of international R-related events in Poland. After three years, we are happy to announce that our main event, the Why R? conference, has become one of the largest annual R conferences in Central Europe. Why R? 2019 was the third...
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Why R? 2020 Conference – Registration and Call for Papers
Three editions of Why R? conferences were a great networking success. During each edition, we gathered around 250-300 R enthusiasts from Europe and we managed to carry out more than 35 workshops. Desire for a bigger event led us to the 4th edition! About Why R? 2020 conference Important dates Keynotes Programme Pre-meetings About Why R? 2020 c...
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Why R? Webinars
Motivated by a successful turnaround of visits of Why R? 2019 keynote talks that uploaded to Why R? YouTube channel we decided to start Why R? Webinars series! We hope this will impact the growth of the R community. Details channel: youtube.com/c/WhyRFoundation date: every Thursday 8:00 pm GMT+2 (starting April 2nd!) format: one 45 minutes l...
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http://r-addict.com 2020-04-14 10:28:11
On April 16th (8:00pm GMT+2) we will be delightful to host Heidi Seibold from University of Munich (Department of Statistics joins LMU Open Science Center) ). Heidi will share her experiences on Teaching Machine Learning online – very popular topic in the current situation of COVID-19. The abstract and the biogram are below. See you on the W...
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