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Olivier Benz

b-data
Managing Director / Data Scientist
Zurich

https://b-data.ch

I'm a trained electronics engineer and graduated from ZHAW in Data Analysis and Process Design. b-data is offering Data Science services to clients in Switzerland.
Main interests: data cleaning, analysis and visualisation; time series analysis; text mining; parallel computing

8:00am PDT

Registration check-in McCaw Hall

9:00am PDT

MoRe than woRds, Text and Context: Language Analytics in Finance with R (Part 1) McDowell & Cranston

10:15am PDT

Coffee Break McDowell & Cranston

10:30am PDT

MoRe than woRds, Text and Context: Language Analytics in Finance with R (Part 2) McDowell & Cranston

12:00pm PDT

Lunch McDowell & Cranston

1:00pm PDT

Introduction to SparkR (Part 1) Econ 140

2:15pm PDT

Coffee Break Econ 140

2:30pm PDT

Introduction to SparkR (Part 2) Econ 140

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

Using Spark with Shiny and R Markdown SIEPR 130

10:48am PDT

RcppParallel: A Toolkit for Portable, High-Performance Algorithms SIEPR 130

11:06am PDT

Taking R to new heights for scalability and performance SIEPR 130

11:24am PDT

Distributed Computing using parallel, Distributed R, and SparkR SIEPR 130

11:42am PDT

FlashR: Enable Parallel, Scalable Data Analysis in R SIEPR 130

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

1:18pm PDT

Experiences on the Use of R in the Water Sector SIEPR 120

1:36pm PDT

A Case Study in Reproducible Model Building: Simulating Groundwater Flow in the Wood River Valley Aquifer System, Idaho SIEPR 120

1:54pm PDT

Modeling Food Policy Decision Analysis with an Interactive Bayesian Network in Shiny SIEPR 120

2:12pm PDT

Wrap your model in an R package! SIEPR 120

2:30pm PDT

Coffee Break w/ Poster Session McCaw Hall Integrating R & Tableau Sponsor Pavilion

3:30pm PDT

Literate Programming McCaw Hall

4:30pm PDT

Short Break McCaw Hall

4:45pm PDT

R at Microsoft McCaw Hall

5:03pm PDT

'AF' a new package for estimating the attributable fraction McCaw Hall

5:39pm PDT

xgboost: An R package for Fast and Accurate Gradient Boosting SIEPR 130

5:57pm PDT

Rectools: An Advanced Recommender System SIEPR 130

6:30pm PDT

Welcome Reception Bing Concert Hall

8:00am PDT

Registration check-in McCaw Hall

9:00am PDT

Towards a grammar of interactive graphics McCaw Hall

10:00am PDT

Coffee Break with Poster Exhibits McCaw Hall

10:30am PDT

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

10:45am PDT

MAVIS: Meta Analysis via Shiny SIEPR 120

10:50am PDT

madness: multivariate automatic differentiation in R SIEPR 120

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

11:10am 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

11:25am PDT

FirebrowseR an 'API' Client for Broads 'Firehose' Pipeline SIEPR 120

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

12:00pm PDT

Lunch with Poster Exhibits McCaw Hall

1:00pm PDT

R at Google Lane & Lyons & Lodato

1:36pm PDT

Extending CRAN packages with binaries: x13binary SIEPR 130

1:54pm PDT

Checkmate: Fast and Versatile Argument Checks SIEPR 130

2:12pm PDT

High performance climate downscaling in R SIEPR 120

2:30pm PDT

Coffee Break with Poster Session McCaw Hall ROSETTAHUB, the next generation data science platform Sponsor Pavilion

3:30pm PDT

Flexible and Interpretable Regression Using Convex Penalties 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

Gradient Boosted Trees Model: deploying R models into production environments* Lane & Lyons & Lodato

10:50am PDT

ranger: A fast implementation of random forests for high dimensional data Lane & Lyons & Lodato

11:25am PDT

Outlier Detection Methods Econ 140

11:30am PDT

gtfsr: A package to make transit system analysis easy Econ 140

11:35am PDT

Handling Huge Hierachical Data in R Econ 140

11:40am PDT

rfmt - A new formatter for R source code Econ 140

12:00pm PDT

Lunch w/ Poster Exhibits McCaw Hall

1:00pm PDT

Catching up with Rstudio Lane & Lyons & Lodato

1:20pm PDT

R for Big Data and Applications: Using R at Oracle Lane & Lyons & Lodato

1:35pm PDT

Scalable Machine Learning in R with H2O Lane & Lyons & Lodato

2:00pm PDT

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

3:00pm PDT

Closing Remarks McCaw Hall