Some Announcements

Some Announcements:

• Dr. Nina Zumel will be presenting “Myths of Data Science: Things you Should and Should Not Believe”, Sunday, October 29, 2017 10:00 AM to 12:30 PM at the She Talks Data Meetup (Bay Area).
• ODSC West 2017 is soon. It is our favorite conference and we will be giving both a workshop and a talk.

  • Thursday Nov 2 2017, 2:00 PM, Room T2, “Modeling big data with R, Sparklyr, and Apache Spark”, Workshop/Training intermediate, 4 hours, by Dr. John Mount (link).

  • Friday Nov 0 2017, 4:15 PM, Room TR2 “Myths of Data Science: Things you Should and Should Not Believe”, Data Science lecture beginner/intermediate, 45 minutes, by Dr. Nina Zumel (link, length, abstract, and title to be corrected).

  We really hope you can make these talks.

• On the “R for big data” front we have some big news: the replyr package now implements pivot/un-pivot (or what tidyr calls spread/gather) for big data (databases and Sparklyr). This data shaping ability adds a lot of user power. We call the theory “coordinatized data” and the work practice “fluid data”.