[datatable-help] useR2014

[Matt Dowle]

To catch those who maybe don't follow twitter or blogs, slides from the 
data.table talk and tutorial are now online :

http://user2014.stat.ucla.edu/files/talk_Matt.pdf
http://user2014.stat.ucla.edu/files/tutorial_Matt.pdf

I've never been to useR! before so didn't know what to expect. It 
certainly exceeded all my expectations. I was most amazed by the quality 
of the posters - you could hardly call them posters, more works of art.

I really wasn't sure how to pitch the talk (benchmarks, syntax, 
features?) but after seeing John Chambers keynote in the morning, that 
was an ahah moment: the history.

Delighted that data.table made it into the top 10 list of packages that 
Xavier Conort uses at DataRobot to enter Kaggle competitions. His room 
was packed out. When the standing room was gone they started sitting in 
the aisle.

I'm particularly keen to try out testCoverage from Mango Solutions, 
presented by Andy Nicholls. We have 1,500 tests in data.table, but which 
lines of source code aren't touched by any of them? It's due on CRAN soon.

A selection of tweets, some with photos :

https://twitter.com/matlabulous/status/484591147298217984
https://twitter.com/_inundata/status/484120526021881858
https://twitter.com/timtriche/status/484120355254980608
https://twitter.com/R_projekt/status/484118957964546048
https://twitter.com/timtriche/status/484117983359275008
https://twitter.com/revodavid/status/483650587263643649
https://twitter.com/revodavid/status/483647927575777280
https://twitter.com/UglyResearch/status/481137085974589441

and if you look very closely, I'm in the very right of this photo :
https://twitter.com/eddelbuettel/status/485150745080000512

Next up:

* Numerous bug fixes

* Presenting at R in Insurance, London on Monday 14th July
http://bit.ly/1vXtLyK

* 4hr tutorial and talk at EARL, London in September, with Arun :
http://www.earl-conference.com/Agenda.html
(spaces are limited)

Matt