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Björn Beckmann

Siemens AG
Germany

powergeneration.siemens.de

8:00am PDT

Registration check-in McCaw Hall

9:00am PDT

Machine Learning Algorithmic Deep Dive (Part 1) Campbell Rehearsal Hall

10:30am PDT

Machine Learning Algorithmic Deep Dive (Part 2) Campbell Rehearsal Hall

12:00pm PDT

Lunch Lyons & Lodato

1:00pm PDT

Effective Shiny Programming (Part 1) McCaw Hall Introduction to SparkR (Part 1) Econ 140 Ninja moves with data.table - learn by doing in a cookbook style workshop (Part 1) Lane Using R with Jupyter notebooks for reproducible research (Part 1) SIEPR 120

2:15pm PDT

Coffee Break Lane

2:30pm PDT

Effective Shiny Programming (Part 2) McCaw Hall Introduction to SparkR (Part 2) Econ 140 Ninja moves with data.table - learn by doing in a cookbook style workshop (Part 2) Lane Using R with Jupyter notebooks for reproducible research (Part 2) SIEPR 120

4:00pm PDT

Short Break McCaw Hall

4:15pm PDT

What's up with the R consortium? McCaw Hall

4:40pm PDT

Presentation of the Women in R task force McCaw Hall

5:00pm PDT

R-Ladies Presentation 1 McCaw Hall

5:10pm PDT

R-Ladies Presentation 2 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

R in machine learning competitions McCaw Hall Using Spark with Shiny and R Markdown SIEPR 130

10:48am PDT

Implementing R in old economy companies: From proof-of-concept to production Econ 140 RcppParallel: A Toolkit for Portable, High-Performance Algorithms SIEPR 130

11:06am PDT

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

11:42am PDT

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

Continuous Integration and Teaching Statistical Computing with R SIEPR 130

1:18pm PDT

Experiences on the Use of R in the Water Sector SIEPR 120 Fast additive quantile regression in R Barnes & McDowell & Cranston Integrated R labs for high school students SIEPR 130

1:36pm PDT

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

Zero-overhead integration of R, JS, Ruby and C/C++ Lane & Lyons & Lodato

2:12pm PDT

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

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 Bridging the Data Visualization to Digital Humanities gap: Introducing the Interactive Text Mining Suite Sponsor Pavilion High-performance R with FastR Sponsor Pavilion Integrating R & Tableau 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 Video Tutorials in Introductory Statistics Instruction 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

flexdashboard: Easy interactive dashboards for R Lane & Lyons & Lodato R at Microsoft McCaw Hall

5:03pm PDT

Deep Learning for R with MXNet SIEPR 130 New Paradigms In Shiny App Development: Designer + Data Scientist Pairing Lane & Lyons & Lodato When will this machine fail? SIEPR 120

5:21pm PDT

Data validation infrastructure: the validate package Barnes & McDowell & Cranston 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 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 Rectools: An Advanced Recommender System SIEPR 130

6:30pm PDT

Welcome Reception Bing Concert Hall

9:00am PDT

Towards a grammar of interactive graphics McCaw Hall

10:30am PDT

Importing modern data into R SIEPR 130 Notebooks with R Markdown McCaw Hall Profvis: Profiling tools for faster R code Econ 140 Empowering Business Users with Shiny SIEPR 120

10:35am PDT

Bespoke eStyle Statistical Training for Africa: challenges and opportunities of developing an online course SIEPR 120

10:40am PDT

Tie-ins between R and Openstreetmap data SIEPR 120

10:48am PDT

ETL for medium data SIEPR 130 permuter: An R package for randomization inference Barnes & McDowell & Cranston Size of Datasets for Analytics and Implications for R Econ 140

10:55am PDT

rempreq: An R package for Estimating the Employment Impact of U.S. Domestic Industry Production and Imports SIEPR 120

11:00am PDT

Text Mining and Sentiment Extraction in Central Bank Documents SIEPR 120

11:05am PDT

Maximum Monte Carlo likelihood estimation of conditional auto-regression models SIEPR 120

11:06am PDT

Efficient tabular data ingestion and manipulation with MonetDBLite SIEPR 130

11:10am PDT

Scaling R for Business Analytics SIEPR 120

11:15am PDT

Building a High Availability REST API Engine for R SIEPR 120

11:20am PDT

Automated clinical research tracking and assessment using R-Shiny SIEPR 120

11:24am PDT

Efficient in-memory non-equi joins using data.table SIEPR 130 Grid Computing in R with Easy Scalability Econ 140 Heatmaps in R: Overview and best practices Barnes & McDowell & Cranston Network Diffusion of Innovations in R: Introducing netdiffuseR McCaw Hall

11:30am PDT

Performance Above Random Expectation: A more intuitive and versatile metric for evaluating probabilistic classifiers SIEPR 120

11:35am PDT

R's Role in Healthcare Data: Exploration, Visualization and Presentation SIEPR 120

11:42am PDT

Exploring the R / SQL boundary SIEPR 130 Interactive Terabytes with pbdR Econ 140 Multivoxel Pattern Analysis of fMRI Data Lane & Lyons & Lodato

12:00pm PDT

Lunch with Poster Exhibits McCaw Hall

1:00pm PDT

R markdown: Lifesaver or death trap? McCaw Hall

1:18pm PDT

A Lap Around R Tools for Visual Studio McCaw Hall How to use the archivist package to boost reproducibility of your research Barnes & McDowell & Cranston Tools for Robust R Packages SIEPR 130

1:36pm PDT

Adding R, Jupyter and Spark to the toolset for understanding the complex computing systems at CERN's Large Hadron Collider McCaw Hall GNU make for reproducible data analysis using R and other statistical software Barnes & McDowell & Cranston Revisiting the Boston data set (Harrison and Rubinfeld, 1978) SIEPR 120 Simulation and power analysis of generalized linear mixed models Econ 140

1:54pm PDT

Approximate inference in R: A case study with GLMMs and glmmsr Econ 140 Checkmate: Fast and Versatile Argument Checks SIEPR 130 How to do one's taxes with R McCaw Hall Spatial data in R: simple features and future perspectives SIEPR 120

2:12pm PDT

Providing Digital Provenance: from Modeling through Production Barnes & McDowell & Cranston Using R in a regulatory environment: FDA experiences. McCaw Hall

2:30pm PDT

Coffee Break with Poster Session McCaw Hall Approaches to R education in Canadian universities Sponsor Pavilion Bayesian inference for Internet ratings data using R Sponsor Pavilion Data Quality Profiling - The First Step with New Data Sponsor Pavilion Developing R Tools for Energy Data Analysis Sponsor Pavilion Energy prediction and load shaping for buildings Sponsor Pavilion Giving a boost to renewable energy development: predicting reef fish community distributions in the Main Hawaiian Islands using boosted regression trees Sponsor Pavilion Helping Non-programmers Use R Sponsor Pavilion hurdlr: An R package for zero-inflated and over-dispersed count data Sponsor Pavilion Logistic modelling of increased antibacterial resistance with sales Sponsor Pavilion Monitoring nonlinear profiles with R: an application to Quality Control Sponsor Pavilion Partition-Assisted Clustering: Application to High-Dimensional Multi-Sample Single-Cell Data Analysis Sponsor Pavilion Plotting for Marketers - Seeing the Story Sponsor Pavilion Presidential Rankings: Visualization and Comparisons Sponsor Pavilion Reproducible research works_with_R Sponsor Pavilion request: A DSL for http requests Sponsor Pavilion ROSETTAHUB, the next generation data science platform Sponsor Pavilion Social Vulnerability to Climate Change: Automation and Validation of Indices Sponsor Pavilion The markovchain R package Sponsor Pavilion The Use of Ensemble Learning Methods in Open Source Data Challenges Sponsor Pavilion Time Flies - Use R to Analyze the Changing Airline Industry Sponsor Pavilion Web-based automated personalized homework with WebWork and R Sponsor Pavilion

3:30pm PDT

Flexible and Interpretable Regression Using Convex Penalties McCaw Hall

4:30pm PDT

Cruise & Conference Dinner McCaw Hall

9:00am PDT

Statistical Thinking in a Data Science Course McCaw Hall

10:00am PDT

Coffee Break w/ Poster Exhibits McCaw Hall

10:30am PDT

Shiny Gadgets: Interactive tools for Programming and Data Analysis McCaw Hall swirl-tbp: a package for interactively learning R programming and data science through the addition of 'template-based practice' problems in swirl Barnes & McDowell & Cranston A Shiny App is Worth 1000**3 Words: A Case Study in Displaying Three-Dimensional Dose Combination Response Data Econ 140

10:40am PDT

Forecasting Revenue for S&P 500 Companies Using the baselineforecast Package Econ 140

10:45am PDT

Clustering of Hierarchically-Linked Multivariate Datasets Econ 140

10:48am PDT

Practical tools for exploratory web graphics SIEPR 130

10:55am PDT

GeoFIS: an R-based open source software for analyzing and zoning spatial data Econ 140

11:05am PDT

Using R at a rapidly scaling healthcare technology startup Econ 140

11:08am PDT

Superheat: Supervised heatmaps for visualizing complex data Lane & Lyons & Lodato

11:10am PDT

Event Detection with Social Media Data Econ 140

11:24am PDT

DataSHIELD: Taking the analysis to the data McCaw Hall ggduo: Pairs plot for two group data SIEPR 130 Revolutionize how you teach and blog: add interactivity Barnes & McDowell & Cranston

11:25am PDT

Outlier Detection Methods Econ 140

11:26am PDT

Big data algorithms for rank-based estimation Lane & Lyons & Lodato

11:35am PDT

Handling Huge Hierachical Data in R Econ 140

11:42am PDT

rbokeh: A Simple, Flexible, Declarative Framework for Interactive Graphics SIEPR 130 Using Jupyter notebooks with R in the classroom Barnes & McDowell & Cranston

12:00pm PDT

Lunch w/ Poster Exhibits McCaw Hall

1:00pm PDT

Hash Tables in R are Slow SIEPR 130

1:05pm PDT

Visualization of Uncertainty for Longitudinal Data SIEPR 130

1:10pm PDT

Scalable semi-parametric regression with mgcv package and bam procedure SIEPR 130

1:15pm PDT

Peirce--theory-of-signs in R SIEPR 130

1:20pm PDT

shinyjs: Easily improve UX in your Shiny apps without having to learn JavaScript SIEPR 130

1:25pm PDT

Two Cultures: From Stata to R McCaw Hall Weather Alerts Data with R SIEPR 130

1:30pm PDT

The Best Time to Post on Reddit McCaw Hall Thinking about Energy Markets with interactivity SIEPR 130

1:35pm PDT

Interact with Python from within R McCaw Hall

1:40pm PDT

Interactive dashboards for visual quality control of air quality data SIEPR 130 Let's meet on satRday! McCaw Hall

2:00pm PDT

RCloud - Collaborative Environment for Visualization and Big Data Analytics McCaw Hall

3:00pm PDT

Closing Remarks McCaw Hall