EARL Houston: Interview with Hadley Wickham
Can you tell us about your upcoming keynote at EARL and what the key take-home messages will be for delegates? I’m going to talk about functional programming which I think...continue reading.
Can you tell us about your upcoming keynote at EARL and what the key take-home messages will be for delegates? I’m going to talk about functional programming which I think...continue reading.
Dr. Gentleman’s work at 23andMe focuses on the exploration of how human genetic and trait data in the 23andMe database can be used to identify new therapies for disease. Dr....continue reading.
Julia is a Data Scientist at Stack Overflow, has a PhD in astrophysics and an abiding love for Jane Austen (which we totally understand!). Before moving into Data Science and...continue reading.
Join us at the EARL US Roadshow – a conference dedicated to the real-world usage of R EARL, the Enterprise Applications of the R Language Conference is set to embark...continue reading.
In this post we’re going to model the prices of Airbnb appartments in London. In other words, the aim is to build our own price suggestion model. We will be...continue reading.
Mango Solutions are pleased to be exhibiting at ACoP 9 on 7-10th October at the Loews Coronado Bay Resort near San Diego, CA and welcome our customers and conference attendees...continue reading.
With another brilliant EARL London behind us, we are now looking forward to bringing the conference to the US with three one day EARL Roadshow events! We couldn’t be more...continue reading.
Two weeks ago was our most successful EARL London conference in its 5-year history, which I had the pleasure of attending for both days of talks. Now I must admit,...continue reading.
When I first started working as a data scientist (or something like it) I was told to program in C++ and Java. Then R came along and it was liberating,...continue reading.
With EARL just next week, we have just one more speaker interview to share! In today’s interview, Ruth Thomson, Practice Lead for Strategic Advice spoke to Jasmine Pengelly, whose career...continue reading.
When our Chief Data Scientist, Rich Pugh, offered to write a blogpost about the DiagrammeR package, he asked what format we’d like it in. “A poem?” we retorted. He didn’t...continue reading.
Just after starting at Mango I made the decision to start learning Italian. I have always been interested in learning languages and I was really keen to go back to...continue reading.
Why build a recommender system? The most wonderful and most frustrating characteristic of the Internet is its excessive supply of content. As a result, many of today’s commercial giants are...continue reading.
The language used by data scientists can be confusing to anyone encountering it for the first time. Ever changing best practices and constantly evolving technologies and methodologies have given rise...continue reading.
In a previous post, I studied gender diversity in the film industry, I did this by focusing on some key behind-the-camera roles and measuring the evolution of the gender diversity in...continue reading.
For today’s interview, Ruth Thomson, Practice Lead for Strategic Advice spoke to Catherine Gamble, Data Scientist at Marks and Spencer. Catherine is presenting “Using R to Drive Revenue for your...continue reading.
One of the few remaining hurdles when working with R in the enterprise is consistent access to CRAN. Often desktop class systems will have unrestricted access while server systems might...continue reading.
With 6 weeks to go until the 2018 London EARL Conference, we can officially announce it will be the biggest and best yet. Launched in 2014, EARL focuses on the...continue reading.
Our next interviewee is Patrik Punco, Marketing Analyst at German media company, NOZ Medien. Patrik is presenting a lighting talk ‘Subscription Analytics with focus on Churn Pattern Recognition in a German...continue reading.
The year 2017 has completely turned the film industry upside down. The allegations of harassment and sexual assault against Harvey Weinstein have raised the issue of sexism and misogyny in...continue reading.