Publications by cswindell
Turn a shiny application into a tablet or desktop app
Since we first demoed it at our really successful trip to Strata London last year, a few people have asked us how we made the awesome looking Data Science Radar app that we were running on the tablets we had with us. In this post we’ll take a look at how we did it, and hopefully show you how easy it is to do yourself. Mango is primarily known...
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The Evolution of Distributed Programming in R
Both R and distributed programming rank highly on my list of “good things”, so imagine my delight when two new packages used for distributed programming in R were released: ddR (https://github.com/vertica/ddR) and multidplyr (https://github.com/hadley/multidplyr) Distributed programming is normally taken up for a variety of reasons: To sp...
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Championing the R Community for the NHS
The NHS is one of the UK’s most valued institutions and serves as the healthcare infrastructure for millions of people. Mango has had the pleasure of supporting their internal NHS-R community over the last few years, supporting the initiative from its inception and sharing our knowledge and expertise at their events as they seek to promote the ...
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Using data to accurately forecast demand for chocolate this Easter
Using data to accurately forecast demand for chocolate this Easter Easter is a significant holiday for many businesses especially within the UK. The holiday period brings an increase to food and drink sales, with Easter being the second most popular period of the year for chocolate consumption. Many Britons book holiday trips in this period as we...
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How to Successfully Manage Your R Environment Webinar
Author: Rich Adams, RStudio Partner Manager Free webinar: How to successfully manage your R environment – the RStudio managed service platform (22nd July @ 4PM BST) In a free session on Thursday 22nd July, we’ll be discussing how data science teams can confidently and securely collaborate with large data sets in R, supported with the right ...
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Fast and {furrr}-ious: real time economic monitoring using R
Mango’s ‘Meet-Up’ at Big Data London on 22nd September features guest speaker Adam Hughes, Data Scientist for The Bank of England, whose remit involves working with incredibly rich datasets, feeding into strategic decision-making on monetary policy. You can read about Adam’s incredibly interesting data remit and his team’s journey thro...
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How to achieve efficient data management in Managed RStudio
In a recent webinar, we provided an overview of our Managed RStudio platform and demonstrated how modern technology platforms like RStudio gives you the ability to collect, store and analyse data at the right time and in the right format to make informed business decisions. The Public Health Evidence & Intelligence team at Herts Country Council d...
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R infrastructure enables accurate Covid reporting across health partnership organisations
Two years ago the Public Health Evidence & Intelligence team at Hertfordshire Country Council numbered 5, fast forward to today and the team have built their capability to 32 competent R users. For Manager Will Yuill, it’s been an extremely busy few years as the urgency of the COVID-19 crisis took hold. The team’s workload doubled over...
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Using R to Model UK Residential Property by Giles Heywood
Our first speaker at London R is Giles Heywood who works as Chief Data Scientist at Seven Dials Fund Management. As an alternative property specialist, he uses model-driven strategies to support residential property investment – and as a user of R for 20 years, and author of ‘its’ package for irregular time-series (published on CRAN), he na...
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