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To follow the latest developments of the R Project, b-data is taking part in this year’s R User Conference (user2016) at Stanford University.

The R User Conference is the main meeting of the R user and developer community, its program consisting of both invited and user-contributed presentations. b-data’s schedule for user2016:

Monday, 27 June (Seminars)

• MoRe than woRds, Text and Context: Language Analytics in Finance with R
• Introduction to SparkR

Tuesday, 28 June

• Using Spark with Shiny and R Markdown
• Taking R to new heights for scalability and performance
• Distributed Computing using parallel, Distributed R, and SparkR
• Integrating R & Tableau
• R at Microsoft
• xgboost: An R package for Fast and Accurate Gradient Boosting

Wednesday, 29 June

• Text Mining and Sentiment Extraction in Central Bank Documents
• Scaling R for Business Analytics
• R at Google
• Extending CRAN packages with binaries: x13binary
• ROSETTAHUB, the next generation data science platform

Thursday, 30 June

• Gradient Boosted Trees Model: deploying R models into production environments*
• Handling Huge Hierachical Data in R
• Catching up with Rstudio
• R for Big Data and Applications: Using R at Oracle
• Scalable Machine Learning in R with H2O