Lessons learned from useR! 2015

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Budapesti Műszaki és Gazdaságtudományi Egyetem Méréstechnika és Információs Rendszerek Tanszék

Lessons learned at

Ágnes Salánki

salanki@mit.bme.hu

Budapest University of Technology and Economics

Budapest Users of R Network Meetup

13 July 2015

Lessons learned

Professional aspect: interactive visualization

• Interesting packages: loon, vdmR

• Experiences from the keynote and the tutorial

Educational aspect

• Teaching sessions

• Lightning talks

Personal aspect

• Experiences from the poster session

• Networking

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Interactive visualization

Dianne Cook’s keynote

o „eighty-seven steps forward for data analysis but twelve steps backwards for interactive graphics”

o Focus on reproducible research

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Interactive visualization

Dianne Cook’s keynote

o „eighty-seven steps forward for data analysis but twelve steps backwards for interactive graphics”

o Focus on reproducible research

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Interactive visualization

Tessera tutorial

o Divide&combine approach for computaitons on distributed data frames (ddfs)

o Visualization based on Trelliscope

Packages

o vdmR

• Linked highlighting on basic ggplot2 plots

o Loon

• ~Mondrian, iplots package, etc.

• ca. 10.000 data points

• Extremely good programmability

• Subscription as Beta tester: http://navgraph.com/loon/ 4

Education aspect

Colin Rundel: Teaching R using the Github ecosystem

o Reproducible research: knitr, make

o Feedback, grading, coding, etc. on Github

Mine Cetinkaya-Rundel: Using R, RStudio, and Docker for introductory statistics teaching

o How to learn R: GUI first, slowly remove handholding

Michael Höhle: Zombie preparedness

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Personal aspect

Poster session

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Personal aspect

Poster session

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Professor: Have you used flag X by plotting? Me: Nope, I have used the default setup. Professor: Well, you should have. Me: ??? Professor: Actually, I am the author of that package and I can see from this far that your plot is wrong. Me: (Auch.) Professor Mächler, it is a pleasure to meet you.

Personal aspect

Poster session

Still open question: visualization of large density differences?

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Professor: Have you used flag X by plotting? Me: Nope, I have used the default setup. Professor: Well, you should have. Me: ??? Professor: Actually, I am the author of that package and I can see from this far that your plot is wrong. Me: (Auch.) Professor Mächler, it is a pleasure to meet you.

Networking

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General impressions

Extremely mixed

o Keynote speakers

• Data management

• Visualization

• Bioinformatics

• Geospatial analytics

• Business-related applications

• Hard-core statistics

Lots of friendly people

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