R in Insurance, July 2016 I was a last minute stand in for a colleague and had to pull this together really quickly. Add to that the fact that it was a lightning talk, which is a format I hadn’t tried before and it made puting the talk together quite challenging.
I was pretty happy with what I wanted to say, I’d done related talks before, but trying to distil that down into something that I could comfortably fit into the 10 minute slot proved to be a slower process than I’d have liked.
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NottinghamR, Feb 2016 Sarah Introduces the first NottinghamR User Group Meeting
I volunteered to speak at the first ever meeting of the NottinghamR user group, organised by Sarah of Capital One’s Data Science team. I spoke first, which may have been a bit of a full on start, but fortunately I was followed by the excellent Chris Beeley, who not only wrote a book on Shiny, but also talks about it extremely eloquently.
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A Data Science Lab can be a great tool for innovation in your organisation and can provide the right environment for your Data Science team to hone their skills and try out new tools and techniques.