Mango Solutions are pleased to announce details of the full EARL (Effective Applications of the R Language) Conference agenda.
EARL will be held at The Tower Hotel in London on September 15
th – 17
th and will showcase an impressive list of R experts from a wide range of business sectors; for full agenda details listing the speakers and presentations please visit
www.earl-conference.com/Agenda.html
We also advise that following a slight delay in finalising the full Agenda coupled with the forthcoming bank holiday we have decided to extend the EARLY BIRD registration deadline to
Friday 30th May.
To take advantage of the early bird discounts available please register and purchase your tickets (via
www.earl-conference.com/Register.html ).
For any further information regarding EARL or for details of the Sponsorship and Exhibition opportunities still available, please contact
[email protected]
We look forward to seeing you at EARL.
Monday 15th SEPTEMBER – Workshops run from 13.30 – 17.30 (Further details imminent)
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19.00 – Late |
Welcome Evening Drinks, Tower Hotel |
Tuesday 16th SEPTEMBER – Conference Agenda
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08.30 – 9.00 |
Registration |
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09.00 – 9.10 |
Conference Opening Remarks – Matt Aldridge and Richard Pugh, (Mango Solutions) |
09.10 – 10.10 |
Ben Goldacre – Keynote Address |
10.10 – 10.40 |
Hadley Wickham (Rstudio) – Expressing yourself in R |
10.40 – 11.00 |
Break |
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SESSION STREAM 1 |
SESSION STREAM 2 |
11.00 – 12.30 |
Session 2 – Business Applications of R
Abigail Lebrecht, (uSwitch) – From noisy traffic data to business insight, automating reporting and visualisation functions in R
Markus Gesmann, (Lloyds of London) – Swimming in data and diving for Whales
Neil Rothwell, (C3 Global) – The opportunities for the use
of R in real time industrial analytics |
Session 3 – R and Other Technologies
Robert Mastrodomenico, (Global Sports Statistics) – From R to Python
John McConnell, (Analytical People) – When R wins and Why
Chris Musselle, (Mango Solutions) – R meets Julia |
12.30 – 13.30 |
Lunch |
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13.30 – 15.00 |
Session 4 – Business Applications of R
Tim Paulden, (Atass Sports) – You can NOT be serious! How to build a tennis model in 30 minutes
Joss Langford, (ActivInsights) – Event based classification of human behaviour
Kevin Savage, (Mendeley) – Toilet Stats |
Session 5 – Business Applications of R
Aimee Smith, (Loughborough Univ) – Analysis of Elite Football Players Perception of Playing Surfaces Using R
Navdeep Singh – Automated Statistical Modelling and Reporting Using R
Richard Pugh, (Mango Solutions) – Using R to Optimise a Sales Team |
15.00 – 15.30 |
Break |
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15.30 – 17.30 |
Session 6 – R in Finance
Patrick Burns, (Burnstat) – Effective and Ineffective Risk Management
John James, (Tibco) – Use of Monte Carlo Techniques for Asset Selection
Richard Saldanha, (Investec) – Assessing Liquidity Risk in Asset Management
David Jessop, (UBS) – Calculating High Frequency Betas |
Session 7 – Big Data Technologies
Sumit Mund, (Mund Consulting) – Big Data Analysis with R
Enzo Martoglio, (Steria) – From small data to Big Data
Oliver Bracht, (EODA) – Predictive Maintenance with R
Matt Dowle, (DataTable) – Fast and flexible data manipulation |
19.30 – 23.00 |
Conference Reception Buffet and Reception aboard HMS Belfast
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Wednesday 17th SEPTEMBER – Conference Agenda
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08.30 – 9.00 |
Registration |
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SESSION STREAM 1 |
SESSION STREAM 2 |
09.00 – 10.30 |
Session 1 – Business Applications of R
Frank Hedler, (Simpson Carpenter) – fReedom
Chad Goymer, (Lloyds of London) – Sharing Data Analysis between R and non R Users
Ajitesh Ghosh, (Kantar Worldpanel) – Using R for consumer psychological research |
Session 2 – Managing R in a Commercial Environment
Andrie de Vries, (Revolution Analytics) – Through the firewall; taking a mini CRAN into your organisation
Oracle R Enterprise – Speaker to be confirmed
Nick Burgoyne, (Mango Solutions) – Code Migration, what is the significance? |
10.30 – 11.00 |
Break |
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11.00 – 12.30 |
Session 3 – R in Life Sciences
Marc Laveille, (Inria Saclay) – Simux, a new tool for simulating complex pharmcometric models
Mike Smith, (Pfizer) Henrik Nyberg & Jonathan Chard, (Mango Solutions) – The Task Execution Language (TEL) for DDMoRe
Chris Campbell, (Mango Solutions) – Non-Compartmental Analysis using R |
Session 4 – Managing R in a Commercial Environment
Richard Chandler Mant, (Mango Solutions) – “This code is a complete hack, may or may not work, etc.” – The challenges of validating R
Louis Bajuk-Yorgan, (Tibco) – Extending the R language to the enterprise with TERR & Spotfire
Juan Manuel Hernández, (Millward Brown) – The Equity of R: How R Transformed the Analytics Paradigm at Millward Brown |
12.30 – 13.30 |
Lunch |
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13.30 – 15.00 |
Session 5 – Business Applications of R
Wit Jackuczun, (WLOG Solutions) – Bringing the power of LocalSolver to R: a real-life case-study
Steven Fitzpatrick, (Firmenich) and Greg Gauriot, (Mango Solutions) – Consumer Insights using R
Matt Harling, Appliances Online – TBC |
Session 6 – R Development
Andy Nicholls, (Mango Solutions) – DevelopR – formalising R Development
Alberto Chierci and Bobby Shang – A Smart (and cheap) Way to connect R and Excel
Rich Pugh, (Mango Solutions) – Mango Report Engine |
15.00 – 15.30 |
Break |
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15.30 – 17.00 |
Session 7 – Big Data and Cloud Computing
Mark Sellors, (Mango Solutions) – R and the Cloud: Scaling with Cycle Computing
Naser Ali, (Hortonworks) & Kate Hanley, (Mango Solutions) -Big Data beating the Skills Gap
Q Ethan McCallum – Large Scale Data Analysis using R and Hadoop |
Session 8 – Effective Visualisation using R
Tal Galili , (R Bloggers) – package dendextend
Matt Sundquist, (Plotly) – online R plotting and collaboration
John Burn-Murdoch, (Financial Times) – Visual Journalism with R |
17.00 – 17.15 |
Conference closing remarks – Rich Pugh & Matt Aldridge, (Mango Solutions) |
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