Publications by Markus Gesmann
Next Kölner R User Meeting: Friday, 26 Feburary 2016
The 17th Cologne R user group meeting is scheduled for this Friday, 26 February 2015. We have two talks, followed by networking drinks. Introduction to Bayesian Regression Models using Stan with the brms package – Paul-Christian Bürkner (Uni Münster)RKWard: A Graphical User Interface and Integrated Development Environment for Statistical Anal...
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Notes from the Kölner R meeting, 26 February 2016
Last Friday the Cologne R user group came together for the 17th time. This time we were in for a special treatment, with two talks by psychologists! But, there was nothing to fear, we were in save hands, and for the first time we met at the new Microsoft office in Cologne. Lecture room at Microsoft, CologneFirst up was Meik Michalke f...
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R in Insurance: Abstract submission closes end of March
Hurry! The abstract submission deadline for the 4th R in Insurance conference in London, 11 July 2015 is approaching soon. You have until the 28th of March to submit a one-page abstract for consideration. Both academic and practitioner proposals related to R are encouraged. Please email your abstract of no more than 300 words (in text or pdf form...
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Notes from 2nd Bayesian Mixer Meetup
Last Friday the 2nd Bayesian Mixer Meetup (@BayesianMixer) took place at Cass Business School, thanks to Pietro Millossovich and Andreas Tsanakas, who helped to organise the event.Bayesian Mixer at CassFirst up was Davide De March talking about the challenges in biochemistry experimentation, which are often characterised by complex and emerging r...
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New R package to access World Bank data
Staying on top of new CRAN packages is quite a challenge nowadays. However, thanks to Dirk’s CRANberries service I occasionally spot a new gem, such as wbstats, which appeared on CRAN last week. Similarly to the WDI package, wbstats offers an interface to the World Bank database.With the functions of wbstats the World Bank data can ...
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R in Insurance 2016 Programme
We are delighted to announce that the programme for the 4th R in Insurance conference at Cass Business School in London, 11 July 2016, have been finalised. Register by the end of May to get the early bird booking fee.The organisers gratefully acknowledge the sponsorship of Verisk, Mirai Solutions, Applied AI, Studio, CYBAEA and Oasis, without who...
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Early bird registration for R in Insurance closes 30 May
Hurry! The early bird registration offer for the 4th R in Insurance conference, 11 July 2016, at Cass Business School closes 30 May.This one-day conference will focus once more on applications in insurance and actuarial science that use R, the lingua franca for statistical computation. Topics covered include reserving, pricing, loss modelling, th...
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Notes from 3rd and 3.5th Bayesian Mixer Meetup
Two Bayesian Mixer meet-ups in a row. Can it get any better?Our third ‘regular’ meeting took place at Cass Business School on 24 June. Big thanks to Pietro and Andreas, who supported us from Cass. The next day, Jon Sedar of Applied AI, managed to arrange a special summer PyMC3 event.3rd Bayesian Mixer meet-upFirst up was Luis Usie...
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Notes from the Kölner R meeting, 9 July 2016
Last Thursday the Cologne R user group came together again. This time, our two speakers arrived from Bavaria, to talk about Spark and R Server.Introduction to Apache SparkDownload slidesDubravko Dulic gave an introduction to Apache Spark and why Spark might be of interest to data scientists using R. Spark is designed for cluster compu...
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Notes from the 4th R in Insurance Conference
The 4th R in Insurance conference took place at Cass Business School London on 11 July 2016. This one-day conference focused once more on the wide range of applications of R in insurance, actuarial science and beyond. The conference programme covered topics including reserving, pricing, loss modelling, the use of R in a production env...
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