Early Bird Registration for the EARL Conference closes tomorrow (Friday 30th May)
Early Bird Registration for the EARL Conference (Effective Applications of the R Language) closes tomorrow, Friday 30th May. The EARL conference will be held in London on the 15-17th September 2014
EARL is the first cross-sector conference dedicated to the business usage of R and features presentations from over 45 R experts and practitioners. For further information and to purchase early bird discounted tickets please visit www.earl-conference.com
EARL represents a singular opportunity to meet numerous experts, learn about multiple applications of R across a range of industries, enable future collaboration and inspire future innovation.
Monday 15th September – Workshops run from 1.30pm – 5.30pm (Further details imminent) |
1.30 pm – 5.30 pm | WORKSHOP 1: “Fast and flexible data wrangling with data.table” by Matt Dowle | WORKSHOP 2: “Getting the Best of Both Worlds: Using Python for Data Wrangling and R for Stats” by Dr Chris Musselle |
7.00 pm – Late | Welcome Evening Drinks, Tower Hotel | |
Tuesday 16th September – Conference Agenda |
8.30 am – 9.00 am | Registration | |
9.00 am – 9.10 am | Conference Opening Remarks – Matt Aldridge and Richard Pugh, (Mango Solutions) | |
9.10 am – 10.10 am | Ben Goldacre – Keynote Address | |
10.10 am – 10.40 am | Hadley Wickham (Rstudio) – Expressing yourself in R | |
10.40 am – 11.00 am | Break | |
SESSION STREAM 1 | SESSION STREAM 2 | |
11.00 am – 12.30 pm | Session 2 – Business Applications of R Abigail Lebrecht, (uSwitch) – From noisy traffic data to business insight, automating reporting and Markus Gesmann, (Lloyds of London) – Swimming in data and diving for Whales Neil Rothwell, (C3 Global) – The opportunities for the use | 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 pm – 1.30 pm | Lunch | |
1.30 pm – 3.00 pm | 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 |
3.00 pm – 3.30 pm | Break | |
3.30 pm – 5.30 pm | Session 6 – R in Finance Patrick Burns, (Burnstat) – Effective Risk Management with R John James, (Tibco) – Use of Monte Carlo Techniques for Asset Selection Richard Saldanha, (Investec) – Assessing Liquidity 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 |
7.00 pm – 11.00 pm | Conference Reception Buffet and Reception aboard HMS Belfast | |
Wednesday 17th September – Conference Agenda |
8.30 am – 9.00 am | Registration |
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9.00 am – 10.30 am | 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 am – 11.00 am | Break |
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11.00 am – 12.30 pm | Session 3 – R in Life Sciences Marc Laveille, (Inria Saclay) – SimulX, 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 pm – 1.30 pm | Lunch |
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1.30 pm – 3.00 pm | Session 5 – Business Applications of R Wit Jakuczun, (WLOG Solutions) – Bringing the 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 |
3.00 pm – 3.30 pm | Break |
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3.30 pm – 5.00 pm | 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 | 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 |
5.00 pm – 5.15pm | Conference closing remarks – Rich Pugh & Matt Aldridge, (Mango Solutions) | |