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8:00am PDT

Registration check-in McCaw Hall

8:30am PDT

Opening Session McCaw Hall

9:00am PDT

Forty years of S McCaw Hall

10:00am PDT

Coffee Break with Poster Exhibits McCaw Hall

10:30am PDT

bamdit: An R Package for Bayesian meta-analysis of diagnostic test data Barnes & McDowell & Cranston edeaR: Extracting knowledge from process data Econ 140 R in machine learning competitions McCaw Hall Using Spark with Shiny and R Markdown SIEPR 130 Wrapping Your R tools to Analyze National-Scale Cancer Genomics in the Cloud Lane & Lyons & Lodato

10:48am PDT

Compiling parts of R using the NIMBLE system for programming algorithms Barnes & McDowell & Cranston Connecting R to the OpenML project for Open Machine Learning McCaw Hall Implementing R in old economy companies: From proof-of-concept to production Econ 140 RcppParallel: A Toolkit for Portable, High-Performance Algorithms SIEPR 130 Two-sample testing in high dimensions Lane & Lyons & Lodato

11:06am PDT

Bayesian analysis of generalized linear mixed models with JAGS Barnes & McDowell & Cranston R/qtl: Just Barely Sustainable Lane & Lyons & Lodato R: The last line of defense against bad debt Econ 140 Taking R to new heights for scalability and performance SIEPR 130 trackeR: Intrastructure for running and cycling data from GPS-enabled tracking devices in R McCaw Hall

11:24am PDT

Automating our work away: One consulting firm's experience with KnitR Econ 140 Distributed Computing using parallel, Distributed R, and SparkR SIEPR 130 Fitting complex Bayesian models with R-INLA and MCMC Barnes & McDowell & Cranston Fry: A Fast Interactive Biological Pathway Miner Lane & Lyons & Lodato United Nations World Population Projections with R McCaw Hall

11:42am PDT

Analysis of big biological sequence datasets using the DECIPHER package Lane & Lyons & Lodato bayesboot: An R package for easy Bayesian bootstrapping Barnes & McDowell & Cranston FlashR: Enable Parallel, Scalable Data Analysis in R SIEPR 130 How can I get everyone else in my organisation to love R as much as I do? Econ 140 jailbreakr: Get out of Excel, free McCaw Hall

12:00pm PDT

Lunch with Poster Exhibits Sponsor Pavilion

1:00pm PDT

Capturing and understanding patterns in plant genetic resource data to develop climate change adaptive crops using the R platform SIEPR 120 Continuous Integration and Teaching Statistical Computing with R SIEPR 130 Group and sparse group partial least squares approaches applied in a genomics context Barnes & McDowell & Cranston Linking htmlwidgets with crosstalk and mobservable McCaw Hall

1:18pm PDT

Experiences on the Use of R in the Water Sector SIEPR 120 Fast additive quantile regression in R Barnes & McDowell & Cranston htmlwidgets: Power of JavaScript in R Lane & Lyons & Lodato Integrated R labs for high school students SIEPR 130 Transforming a museum to be data-driven using R McCaw Hall

1:36pm PDT

A Case Study in Reproducible Model Building: Simulating Groundwater Flow in the Wood River Valley Aquifer System, Idaho SIEPR 120 bigKRLS: Optimizing non-parametric regression in R Barnes & McDowell & Cranston CVXR: An R Package for Modeling Convex Optimization Problems McCaw Hall Introducing Statistics with intRo SIEPR 130 What can R learn from Julia Lane & Lyons & Lodato

1:54pm PDT

A first-year undergraduate data science course SIEPR 130 Modeling Food Policy Decision Analysis with an Interactive Bayesian Network in Shiny SIEPR 120 Multiple Hurdle Tobit models in R: The mhurdle package Barnes & McDowell & Cranston Statistics and R in Forensic Genetics McCaw Hall Zero-overhead integration of R, JS, Ruby and C/C++ Lane & Lyons & Lodato

2:12pm PDT

Detection of Differential Item Functioning with difNLR function Barnes & McDowell & Cranston FiveThirtyEight's data journalism workflow with R McCaw Hall RosettaHUB-Sheets, a programmable, collaborative web-based spreadsheet for R, Python and Spark Lane & Lyons & Lodato Teaching R to 200 people in a week SIEPR 130 Wrap your model in an R package! SIEPR 120

2:30pm PDT

Coffee Break w/ Poster Session McCaw Hall A Large Scale Regression Model Incorporating Networks using Aster and R Sponsor Pavilion All-inclusive but Practical Multivariate Stochastic Forecasting for Electric Utility Portfolio Sponsor Pavilion Applied Biclustering Using the BiclustGUI R Package Sponsor Pavilion Bridging the Data Visualization to Digital Humanities gap: Introducing the Interactive Text Mining Suite Sponsor Pavilion Community detection in multiplex networks : An application to the C. elegans neural network Sponsor Pavilion Curde: Analytical curves detection Sponsor Pavilion DiLeMMa - Distributed Learning with Markov Chain Monte Carlo Algorithms with the ROAR Package Sponsor Pavilion High-performance R with FastR Sponsor Pavilion IMGTStatClonotype: An R package with integrated web tool for pairwise evaluation and visualization of IMGT clonotype diversity and expression from IMGT/HighV-QUEST output Sponsor Pavilion Imputing Gene Expression to Maximise Platform Compatibility Sponsor Pavilion Integrating R & Tableau Sponsor Pavilion Making Shiny Seaworthy: A weighted smoothing model for validating oceanographic data at sea. Sponsor Pavilion Multi-stage Decision Method To Generate Rules For Student Retention Sponsor Pavilion mvarVis: An R package for Visualization of Multivariate Analysis Results Sponsor Pavilion Prediction of key parameters in the production of biopharmaceuticals using R Sponsor Pavilion R Microplots in Tables with the latex() Function Sponsor Pavilion R Shiny Application for the Evaluation of Surrogacy in Clinical Trials Sponsor Pavilion RCAP Designer: An RCloud Package to create Analytical Dashboards Sponsor Pavilion Sequence Analysis with Package TraMineR Sponsor Pavilion shinyGEO: a web application for analyzing Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO) datasets using shiny Sponsor Pavilion Statistics and R for Analysis of Elimination Tournaments Sponsor Pavilion Teaching statistics to medical students with R and OpenCPU Sponsor Pavilion Urban Mobility Modeling using R and Big Data from Mobile Phones Sponsor Pavilion Using R in the evaluation of psychological tests Sponsor Pavilion Using R with Taiwan Government Open Data to create a tool for monitor the city's age-friendliness Sponsor Pavilion Video Tutorials in Introductory Statistics Instruction Sponsor Pavilion Visualization of health and population indicators within urban African populations using R Sponsor Pavilion Visualizations and Machine Learning in R with Tessera and Shiny Sponsor Pavilion Writing a dplyr backend to support out-of-memory data for Microsoft R Server Sponsor Pavilion

3:30pm PDT

Literate Programming McCaw Hall

4:30pm PDT

Short Break McCaw Hall

4:45pm PDT

Covr: Bringing Code Coverage to R Econ 140 flexdashboard: Easy interactive dashboards for R Lane & Lyons & Lodato How to keep your R code simple while tackling big datasets Barnes & McDowell & Cranston mlrMBO: A Toolbox for Model-Based Optimization of Expensive Black-Box Functions SIEPR 130 R at Microsoft McCaw Hall Simulation of Synthetic Complex Data: The R-Package simPop SIEPR 120

5:03pm PDT

'AF' a new package for estimating the attributable fraction McCaw Hall Crowd sourced benchmarks Econ 140 Deep Learning for R with MXNet SIEPR 130 Inside the Rent Zestimates Barnes & McDowell & Cranston New Paradigms In Shiny App Development: Designer + Data Scientist Pairing Lane & Lyons & Lodato When will this machine fail? SIEPR 120

5:21pm PDT

broom: Converting statistical models to tidy data frames McCaw Hall Data validation infrastructure: the validate package Barnes & McDowell & Cranston Interactive Naive Bayes using Shiny: Text Retrieval, Classification, Quantification SIEPR 130 Introducing the permutations package SIEPR 120 The challenge of combining 176 x #otherpeoplesdata to create the Biomass And Allometry Database (BAAD) Econ 140 Using Shiny modules to build more-complex and more-manageable apps Lane & Lyons & Lodato

5:39pm PDT

A Future for R Econ 140 Differential equation-based models in R: An approach to simplicity and performance SIEPR 120 R AnalyticFlow 3: Interactive Data Analysis GUI for R Lane & Lyons & Lodato Rho: High Performance R McCaw Hall RServer: Operationalizing R at Electronic Arts Barnes & McDowell & Cranston xgboost: An R package for Fast and Accurate Gradient Boosting SIEPR 130

5:57pm PDT

Applying R in streaming and Business Intelligence applications Barnes & McDowell & Cranston Colour schemes in data visualisation: Bias and Precision McCaw Hall Helping R Stay in the Lead by Deploying Models with PFA SIEPR 120 Rectools: An Advanced Recommender System SIEPR 130 Rethinking R Documentation: an extension of the lint package Econ 140 Visual Pruner: A Shiny app for cohort selection in observational studies Lane & Lyons & Lodato

6:30pm PDT

Welcome Reception Bing Concert Hall