[datatable-help] useR2014

[Michael Smith]

Awesome slides; wish I had been there at the conference. Are you going
to upload the slides to http://datatable.r-forge.r-project.org as well?

Thanks!
M

On 07/09/2014 03:38 AM, Matt Dowle wrote:
> 
> 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
> 
> 
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