Publications by Markus Gesmann
googleVis 0.6.1 on CRAN
We released googleVis version 0.6.1 on CRAN last week. The update fixes issues with setting certain options, following the switch from RJSONIO to jsonlite. Screen shot of some of the Google ChartsNew to googleVis? The package provides an interface between R and the Google Charts Tools, allowing you to create interactive web charts fro...
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Fitting a distribution in Stan from scratch
Last week the French National Institute of Health and Medical Research (Inserm) organised with the Stan Group a training programme on Bayesian Inference with Stan for Pharmacometrics in Paris. Daniel Lee and Michael Betancourt, who run the course over three days, are not only members of Stan’s development team, but also excellent te...
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Notes from 4th Bayesian Mixer Meetup
Last Tuesday we got together for the 4th Bayesian Mixer Meetup. Product Madness kindly hosted us at their offices in Euston Square. About 50 Bayesians came along; the biggest turn up thus far, including developers of PyMC3 (Peadar Coyle) and Stan (Michael Betancourt).The agenda had two feature talks by Dominic Steinitz and Volodymyr K...
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Next Kölner R User Meeting: Friday 14 October
The 19th Cologne R user group meeting is scheduled for this Friday, 14 October 2016. We have three talks, followed by networking drinks. Introduction to the tidyverse tools – Jiddu AlexanderPerformance profiling and improvement in R – Nils GlückBatch processing of R-Scripts with Excel – Klaus JacobiVenue: Eyeo GmbH, Lichtstraße 25, 50825 ...
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Notes from the Kölner R meeting, 14 October 2016
Last Friday the Cologne R user group came together for two talks and a quiz at Eye/o, the company behind Adblock Plus, in Köln-Ehrenfeld. Eye/o were a great host, offering nibbles and drinks to warm up the event and pizza in the end.Cologne R user meeting at Eye/oThe first talk was given by Jiddu Alexander, a physicist turned freelan...
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R in Insurance 2017
The fifth conference on R in Insurance will be held on 8 June 2017 at ENSAE. ENSAE is the Paris Graduate School for Economics, Statistics and Finance.The intended audience of the conference includes both academics and practitioners who are active or interested in the applications of R in Insurance.This one-day conference will focus again on appli...
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R in Insurance 2017 Programme online
The programme for the 2017 R in Insurance conference in Paris has been published. Talks will discuss new ideas and research with the applications in life and general insurance, from network analysis, reserving, pricing to catastrophe modelling, followed by a conference dinner at the Musée d’Orsay. Registration is open until 22 May.This post wa...
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