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satRday Johannesburg 2019

date:2019-04-06
location:Johannesburg, South Africa
series:satRday Johannesburg · one edition
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Panel Discussion : Ethics in Data ScienceRobert Bennetto, Peter Kamerman, Retha Langa, Vebashini Naidoo, Danielle Navarro31m
Panelists cite concrete failures and edge cases: a word‑association corpus Small World of Words with ~90,000 participants and ~1,000,000 responses carries…
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Interpreting Machine Learning Models: Why and How!Omayma Said34m
Argues that model interpretability matters for ethics, debugging and trust, and demonstrates R tools: lime and iml to explain random forests on Iris and a…
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Exploring the South African School Directory with RMegan Beckett14m
Takes the Department of Basic Education’s provincial Excel master lists (about 24,000 schools), cleans and geocodes them with R using tmap’s…
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Understanding the state of R in South AfricaFrancois Van Heerden20m
Downloads from CRAN are parsed from 1,402 log files (6 GB compressed) into a time series of 5.7 million observations (2.8M in 2018), decomposed with the stats…
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Extending Power BI with RMichael Johnson21m
Power BI now runs R by enabling an R install in Options, using Get Data -> R script to expose data frames that load into Power BI's in-memory columnstore, and…
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How the cloud changed the way I do analytics and researchHanjo Odendaal20m
Uses h2o, AWS spot instances, and future + reticulate to scale experiments: spins up five cloud workers from a 2‑core laptop, runs gradient boosting and random…
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Become an animaniac with gganimatePeter Kamerman06m
Downloads Lancet DALY CSVs, imports into R and builds a ggplot line+point chart, then turns it into an animated GIF using gganimate with transition_reveal and…
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What I learned from running Shiny in productionLuis de Sousa20m
Experience running Shiny in production distilled into concrete actions and limits, not platitudes: use shinytest for UI regression checks, use shinyloadtest to…
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3 x packages with single-line calls to boost your productivityOscar Baruffa05m
Three one-line helpers: beeper with 1–11 built-in sounds plays a notification at the end of long-running scripts; dataExplorer::create_report HTML report…
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Why tidy data mattersGerard Walsh05m
Shows cleaning WHO TB data from 1995–2008 into a tidy shape using tidyr::gather and tidyr::separate, then aggregates with dplyr::group_by and summarize and…
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Geo-spatial data visualization in RNatasha Sing05m
Uses R with a Google API key (Static Maps API + Geocoding API), ggmap to geocode locations and pull static basemaps, and ggplot2 to build custom state polygons…
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The Dota 2 Landscape in RVishalin Pillay07m
Downloads a curated CSV of pro matches from DAP Toto, queries the match API to pull JSON, and uses R JSON flattening and list unnesting to tidy nested match…
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Petabytes of data: How to use R at scaleJeff Fletcher16m
Processes petabytes by moving work into a Spark cluster using HDFS/YARN, not by loading data into a laptop R session; a 200 terabyte CSV can be processed…
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A Fiery approach to R web servicesQuintin de Kok15m
Claims a repeatable path from R model to realtime endpoint using ProjectTemplate, Fiery and Docker image. Shows a minimal pipeline: project skeleton auto-loads…
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Zindi Competition PlatformEkow Duker06m
Zindi is a Pan‑African data science competition platform that posts real problems and datasets and crowdsources solutions. It grows from a standing start to…
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Detecting marine heatwaves (MHWs) by using R-programmingAmieroh Abrahams06m
Demonstrates an R workflow that detects marine heatwaves from satellite sea surface temperature, recommending 30 years of SST as the baseline and computing…
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An antidote to complexityEckhard Briedenhann, Robert Bennetto19m
Compares S3, S4 and reference classes and shows a concrete DAG implementation: a class-based DAG object that stores nodes in its own environment, plots…
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YOLO in RVongani Maluleke04m
Shows how to run YOLO from R using a GitHub package installed via devtools, instantiate a model with four arguments (task, model, weights, labels) and call an…
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Three indispensable REGEX hacksMarinus Louw04m
Three practical regex techniques and a working pattern for the example file set are given: use ^ and $ as anchors to force full-string matches, use grouping…
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How to write a report using R MarkdownBianca Peterson10m
Shows how to create reproducible reports with R Markdown using a YAML header for title/author/date and choosing HTML recommended output (convertible with…
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Deploying a Plumber API with DockerAndrew Collier07m
Plumber makes it possible to easily transform your R functions into an API. Developing and testing the API locally is simple, but deploying it can be more of a…
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EXCELsioR!Cesaire Tobias16m
Argues spreadsheets are ubiquitous data sources and shows a workflow that extracts messy balance sheets from 56 Excel files into a single tidy table using R…
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How to Get Ahead in AdvertisingHelge Reikerås21m
Explains concrete multi-channel attribution methods implemented in R and released as a channel attribution R package, comparing Markov chain models (using a…
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