Publications by tobias
OpenAnalytics at UseR!2011
Thursday 11 August 2011 – 22:36 OpenAnalytics is happy to sponsor UseR!2011 and will present recent work that has been released under open source license in three presentations: R and GPU Computing, which accompanies the first public release of our ROpenCL package for GPU computing with R Lab Automation with R, which accompanies the release of ...
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OpenAnalytics @ UseR 2013: What’s on the Program?
Monday 1 July 2013 – 22:37 OpenAnalytics is once more proud sponsor of the yearly R User Conference and sent a strong delegation to present some of its recent work. On Tuesday July 9 Tobias Verbeke and Stephan Wahlbrink give a pre-conference tutorial on Eclipse/StatET and Architect, the next-generation IDE for R. On Wednesday July 10 Laure Cou...
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The State of namingConventions in R
Tuesday 16 July 2013 – 11:14 Last week’s 2013 useR! conference was filled to the brim with informative talks, but hands down the crown for most entertaining talk goes to Rasmus Bååth’s State of Naming Conventions in R presentation. Rasmus’ lighthearted talk leveraged the strongest common bond among R users: collective suffering at the...
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Architect 0.9.3
Friday 26 July 2013 – 13:35 Architect is an Eclipse-based cross-platform IDE for R packed with features for advanced R users. Need convincing? Let’s take a look at some of Architect’s most popular features. Visual Debugger Architect comes equipped with a fully-functional visual debugger. When debugging, Architect launches into a comprehens...
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Crowdfunding the Ubuntu Edge will fail
Tuesday 30 July 2013 – 14:14 Although the Ubuntu Edge has been record-breaking in its crowdfunding efforts, the fundraising campaign will fall well short of its 32 million dollar target. Just to be clear, I hope to be proven wrong! I backed the Ubuntu Edge Indiegogo fundraiser at the $625 level and would really, really like to see the project ...
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Using Kickstarter data to predict Ubuntu Edge’s success
Thursday 1 August 2013 – 14:53 Earlier this week we published an article with an analysis of the Ubuntu Edge Indiegogo crowdfunding campaign, and the outlook was bleak. Donations had slowed to a crawl, and Canonical’s $32 million goal appeared to be little more than a pipe dream. Yes, readers replied, donations had died off, but that’s par ...
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Hypothesis Testing: Fishing for Trouble
Monday 23 March 2015 – 14:50 Introduction “Can you check if this is significant?” It was a seemingly innocuous question from a dangerous source: a semi data-literate scientist. The kind who believed, deep in his heart, that small p-values were “good” and large p-values were “erroneous”. On this day, the man in question had come for...
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Need for Processing Speed: data.table
Monday 30 March 2015 – 15:05 The first time I discovered data.table it felt like magic. I was waiting on a process that was projected to take the better part of an afternoon. In the meantime, I followed the data.table tutorial, rewrote my code using the data.table structure, and fully executed said code, all while the data.frame equivalent was ...
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All Aboard! The R Service Bus 6.2
Tuesday 14 April 2015 – 14:35 As R has continued its growth in populary, it’s made some exotic friends. Friends who speak other (programming) languages. Friends who live on servers and virtual machines. Friends who sometimes need to set aside their differences and work towards a common goal. In the absence of a protocol droid or Babel fish,...
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Editing Dockerfiles with Architect
Monday 22 June 2015 – 14:36 In the last two years, software development had taken a step forward with the advent of the Docker. For the uninitiated, a Docker is a tool that automates the deployment of applications by packaging them with their dependencies in a virtual container, eliminating the need for virtual machines. Docker has streamlined...
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