[datatable-help] useR2014

Matt Dowle mdowle at mdowle.plus.com
Wed Jul 9 23:37:48 CEST 2014


M,

Oh, yes, now uploaded.  Thanks.

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Matt

On 09/07/14 03:17, Michael Smith wrote:
> 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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