SATRDAY

Registration

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Workshops

The satRday Cardiff conference will kick off on the 23^rd of June 2018 with a morning of workshops held by our Keynote Speakers. Workshops will be around 3 hours, and run in parallel.

Tidy Data Science

by Stephanie Locke

Locke Data

Cut the lines of code you need to build awesome stuff. Going from getting data to deploying a model in three hours, you’ll get hands-on with the cutting-edge tidyverse packages that can at least halve the code you need to write!

Attendees should bring a laptop with the latest versions of R and RStudio installed and questions about the R language in Enterprise!

Upgrade Your Workflow with a Custom Package

by Heather Turner

You might think that writing packages is only for R pros. But creating a custom package is a good way for anyone to formalise their workflow and if you can write an R function you can do it! This workshop will set you up to start using custom packages in your work and hobby projects.

Attendees should bring a laptop with the latest versions of R and RStudio installed and questions about CRAN and packages!

Data manipulation with dplyr

by Katherine Tansey

Admiral

The ability to reformat, generate relevant summary information, and merge datasets together are considered routine daily tasks. The R package dplyr has changed the way data manipulation and wrangling occurs within R. It is fast, has a simple syntax, and allows for commands to be chained together to increase efficiency. Learning dplyr is essential for any data analyst and can allow even novice coders to perform advanced manipulations. This workshop will go through the syntax and usage of the main functions to manipulate data using dplyr. We will cover how to filter rows, select columns, create summary statistics, and create new columns using existing information.

Attendees should bring a laptop with the latest versions of R and RStudio installed and questions about the tidyverse!

Speakers

Workshop Leaders

Stephanie Locke

Chief Chibi Officer

Locke Data

Steph is the founder of a consultancy in the UK. Her talks, blog posts, conferences, and business all have one thing in common – they help people get started with data science. Steph holds the Microsoft MVP award for her community contributions. In her spare time, Steph plays board games with her husband and takes copious pictures of her doggos.

Heather Turner

Freelance Consultant

Heather is a freelance consultant with over ten years experience providing statistical and programming support to investigators in statistics, social science, drug discovery, bioinformatics and agriculture. She regularly develops packages as part of her work and is a maintainer/contributor of six packages on CRAN (BradleyTerry2, forwards, gnm, PlackettLuce, logmult, vcdExtra). Heather is an active member of the R community, in particular she is on the board of the R Foundation and chairs the Forwards taskforce on women and other under-represented groups.

Kathrine Tansey

Data Scientist

Admiral

Kathrine is a data scientist with extensive experience in exploratory data analysis, predictive modelling, multivariate analyses, and longitudinal data. She has worked in R for the past 10 years, and has more recently learned python. She received a PhD in human genetics in 2009 from Trinity College Dublin, and subsequently worked at King’s College London, Cardiff University and the University of Bristol in the area of human genomics. As part of her job with Cardiff University, she taught Beginner’s R workshops, which covered the basics of R, the tidyverse package, plotting with ggplot2, and RMarkdown. Kathrine recently moved out of academia and now works as a data scientist for Admiral in Cardiff.

Speakers

Maëlle Salmon

"Our packages reviews in review: introducting and analyzing rOpenSci onboarding system"

Data Scientist & Research Software Engineer

rOpenSci

Nujcharee (เป็ด)

"Introduction to Tidytext"

Data Scientist

North Yorkshire County Council

Paul Robinson

"A simple Bayesian statistical workflow"

Conservation Biologist

Cardiff University

Erle Holgersen

"Integrating Command Line Tools with R"

Bioinformatician

Institute of Cancer Research

Adnan Fiaz

"Snakes in a Package: A guide to and example of combining python and R"

Senior Data Scientist

Mango Solutions

Amy McDougall

"Airtable & R: a marketers heaven"

Operations Manager

Locke Data

Philipp Boersch-Supan

"Counting and weighing penguins really fast with Rcpp"

Ecological Statistician

British Trust for Ornithology

Ellen Talbot

"Using R to evaluate Smart Meter Energy Data"

PhD canditate

University of Liverpool

Jonathan Stott

"Preparing Your Models For Take Off"

Senior Data Scientist

MAG-O (Manchester Airport Group - Online)

Nic Crane

"A Clean Start with Tidy Eval"

Jack Guangjie Li

"Using Rvest to Collect/Archive Past and Present Daily Financial News"

Lecturer in Economics

Cardiff University

Programme

Friday 22 June - Pre-conference Social

satRday 23 June - Conference

Venue

Close to the city center, and location of learning (and filming TV!), the Main Building of Cardiff University will host the conference.

Travel

Important Dates

Sponsors

We are looking for sponsors for Cardiff satRday right now. Your financial help and commitment to the R community are greatly appreciated and essential to making this event possible! Please get in touch with us through email if your business is interested in discussing sponsorship.

Code of Conduct

satRday is dedicated to providing a harassment-free and inclusive conference experience for all in attendance regardless of, but not limited to, gender, sexual orientation, disabilities, physical attributes, age, ethnicity, social standing, religion or political affiliation.

We do not tolerate harassment of participants (including organisers and vendors) in any form. Sexual innuendos and imagery are not appropriate for any conference venue, including presentations.

Anyone violating these rules may be given warning or expelled from the conference (without a refund) at the discretion of the conference organisers.

Our code of conduct/anti-harassment policy can be found here.

Call for Papers

Presentation proposals for satRday Cardiff are now closed. Thank you for all your submissions. Start thinking about topics satRday 2019 :)