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Riinu Pius - R for Health Data Science - from clinicians who code to Shiny interventions
Few weeks ago we finished Why R? 2020 conference. We had an honour to host Riinu Pius, a data scientist at the Centre for Medical Informatics, The University of Edinburgh. This post contains a biography of the speaker and an abstract of her talk: R for Health Data Science. …
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Julia Silge - Data visualization for machine learning practitioners
Few weeks ago we finished Why R? 2020 conference. We had an honour to host Julia Silge, a data scientist and software engineer at RStudio PBC. This post contains a biography of the speaker and an abstract of her talk: Data visualization for machine learning practitioners. …
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Jan Vitek - R MELTS BRAINS - or How I Learned to Love Failing at Compiling R
Few weeks ago we finished Why R? 2020 conference. We had an honour to host Jan Vitek, a Professor of Computer Science at Northeastern University. This post contains a biography of the speaker and an abstract of his talk: R MELTS BRAINS - or How I Learned to Love Failing at Compiling R. …
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Why R? 2020 Conference Summary
The fourth edition of Why R? Conference (2020.whyr.pl) finished this weekend. The post presents the highlights of the conference and the overall summary. You can find all videos from the conference on youtube.com/WhyRFoundation channel. …
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Why R? Text Mining Hackathon Summary
It’s been 2 weeks since the end of a Text Mining 2020.whyr.pl/hackathon/ at Why R?. This was a promotional event before the Why R? 2020 conference that aimed to promote knowledge related to text analyses. We prepared 4 various challenges so that teams were able to pick tasks that suit their skills best. At the beginning of this week we published videos presenting winning solutions on youtube.com/WhyRFoundation channel. If you are interested in the course of the event follow this blog post. …
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Upcoming Why R? Webinars in October
Why R? Webinars are back after successful launch of Why R? 2020 Conference! All videos from the past series and from the recently finished conference can be watched on our youtube.com/WhyRFoundation channel. See this post to find out about upcoming webinars in October 2020. The aim of webinars is to support local R groups during the pandemic. …
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Why R? 2020 Conference Starts 2020-09-26
The fourth edition of Why R? Conference (2020.whyr.pl) is startin 2020-09-26. Below are informations on how to participate! …
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Lessons learned from 500+ Data Science interviews
Dear R Enthusiasts! Today at Why R? 2020 conference we host a Discussion Panel by McKinsey & Company Lessons learned from 500+ Data Science interviews (1pm-2pm UTC+2) - stream …
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Why R? 2020 Discussion Panels
Why R 2020 Discussion Panels are scheduled for this weekend! Check out the post to find out about dates and descriptions of them for 2020.whyr.pl. …
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Why McKinsey Analytics + Ken Benoit Talk
Text Mining Hackathon has started! Yesterday at 5pm UTC we had a pleasure to kick-off Why R? 2020 conference and the Text Mining Hackathon with Julia Silge keynote talk Data visualization for machine learning practitioners. The hackathon lasts for 24hours so you still have a chance to join! Especially since there are 4 various challenges and you can pick one if you do not have enought time for all 4. The deadline for solutions is 2020-09-24 5:30PM UTC! …