Publications by cswindell
Announcing Ascent as the new hosts for EARL 2022
If you managed to attend our LondonR in-person event in January, you will have noticed that the events team has gone purple as the baton officially passes from Mango Solutions to Ascent in supporting all R community events, from Bristol, Manchester and LondonR to the annual flagship EARL conference. The Enterprise Applications of the R Language C...
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Are you on a data-driven coddiwomple?
If like me, you attend data conferences, then there’s one word you will hear time and time again: “journey“. It’s an incredibly popular word in the data-driven transformation world, and it’s common to hear a speaker talking about the “journey” their business is on. But, for me, I often struggle with that word. Journey The Oxfor...
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Mango graduate assessment day
Following on from the success of our recent graduate intake, we are already looking to find three more graduates and one yearlong placement to join us in September 2020. Our placements and interns have been an integral part at Mango for several years now, and we’re proud to say that every single intern has come back once they’ve finished un...
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Data Science & Star Wars: Stakeholder Management in Evil Organisations
Not many people know this, but the First Order (the bad guys from the latest Star Wars films) once created a Data Science team. It all ended very badly, but based on some intel smuggled by a chippy R2 unit, we were able to piece together the story … Analytics: Expectation vs Reality Now, of course this is just (data) science fiction, but the...
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The world of Data in 2020 – what we need to STOP talking about and what we need to START talking about!
With 2020 almost upon us, those of us involved in the production, management and utilisation of data are set for yet another fascinating year. The growth in the volume of data that is produced will continue its inexorable rise, meaning that those who understand how to harness the commercial value of data will only become more important to organ...
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Teach Yourself R in 24hrs
ABOUT THE BOOK: With the open source R programming language and its immense library of packages, you can perform virtually any data analysis task. Now, in just 24 lessons of one hour or less, you can learn all the skills and techniques you’ll need to import, manipulate, summarize, model, and plot data with R, formalize analytical code; and buil...
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Dude: Where are my Cats? RStudio::Conf 2020
Dude: Where are my Cats? RStudio::Conf 2020 It may not have been the start to the conference that we planned as RStudio Full Service Certified partners. – did you see the lonely guy on social media? Yes, that was me, and I’m here to tell the tale… Eventful as it was at the time, I have to say this was the first RStudio Conference I have h...
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Happy 20th BiRthday, R!
Happy 20th BiRthday, R! If you’re kind enough to follow my blogposts, watch my YouTube videos or attend any of my presentations, you’ll be very familiar with my belief that data-driven success in any organisation is two-thirds due to people and processes, and only a third due to technology. Am I being unduly hard on the technology? A poor wor...
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Beacons of Light…
Earlier today, DataIQ unveiled its list of the 100 most influential people in data-driven business, the DataIQ 100, and I’m delighted to report that I was included on that list. It was humbling to be counted among talented individuals, such as Harry Powell, Orlando Machado and Tom Smith, all of whom are blazing the trail in using data to make a...
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2 shortlists for Mango in the 2020 Data IQ Awards
Earlier this month we were delighted to discover that Mango Solutions had been shortlisted for the 2020 Data IQ ‘Best Data & Analytics Team (Enabler)‘ award. We’ve always said the secret of Mango’s success is our people and this acknowledgment represents much valued recognition of our team of data professionals and their talent, service...
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