Making Data Analysis Easier

Workshop Organised by the Monash Business Analytics Team (WOMBAT)

Feb 18-19, 2016 at the Melbourne Zoo

Programme

Thursday Feb 18
9:00-9:15	Zoo entry, find Bong Su room
Opening session (Chair: Rob Hyndman)
9:20-9:30	Colm Kearney	Introductory remarks by the Monash Business School Dean
9:30-10:30	Keynote: Hadley Wickham	EDA = visualise + manipulate + model	video link slides
10:30-10:45	Morning tea
Invited talks (Chair: Di Cook)
10:45-11:15	Heike Hofmann	"Clusters beat trend!? Testing feature hierarchy in statistical graphics"	slides
11:15-11:45	Eugene Dubossarsky	"raptR: Rapid and pretty things in R"	code
11:45-1:00	Lunch	(Orangutans at 12:00, Gorillas at 12:30)
Invited talks (Chair: Nathaniel Tomasetti)
1:00-1:30	Carson Sievert	"Interactive web graphics made easy"	slides
1:30-2:00	Phil Brierley	"Real Data - Real Issues: What they never told me at Uni"	slides
2:00-2:30	Elle Saber	"Dousing forest fires with random forests in R"	slides
2:30-3:00	Thomas Lumley	"Domesticating survey analysis"	slides
3:00-3:15	Afternoon tea
Contributed talks (Chair: Behrooz Hassani-Mahmooei)
3:15-3:35	Anders Gonçalves da Silva	"From genomes to clinical outcomes: empowering clinicians and public health officers with rapid and accessible analysis of microbial genomic data"
3:35-3:55	Andrew Jennings	"Mutant Millenials are mostly multi-modal on Mondays"	slides
3:55-4:15	Klaus Ackerman	"Economics of technology - A trillion observations to infer social-economic behaviour"	slides
4:15-5:00	Free zoo time

Friday Feb 19
9:00-9:15	Zoo entry, find Bong Su room
Invited talks (Chair: Anastasios Panagiotelis)
9:15-9:45	Rob Hyndman	"Making forecasting easier"	slides
9:45-10:15	Zoé van Havre	"Simple tools for complex problems: making molehills out of mountains"	slides [source files]
10:15-10:45	Geoff Webb	"Scaling log-linear analysis to datasets with thousands of variables"	slides
10:45-11:00	Morning tea
Contributed talks (Chair: Julia Polak)
11:00-11:20	Barret Schloerke	"GraphQL: An R server implementation"	slides
11:20-11:40	Christoph Bergmeir	"Continuous global optimization in R"	slides
11:40-12:00	Amy Cook	How to get the most out of your time	slides
12:00-12:20	Nicholas Tierney	"Be a Hawk not a Turkey: How a bird's eye view of your data can streamline data analysis"	slides
12:20-12:40	Richard Beare	"Image-based measurement"	slides
12:40-1:45	Lunch
Invited talks (Chair: Simon Angus)
1:45-2:15	Andrew Robinson	"The joy of text"	slides
2:15-2:45	Yanchang Zhao	"Twitter data analysis with R"	slides
2:45-3:15	Di Cook	"Really? Using the nullabor package to learn if what we see is really there."	slides
3:15-3:30	Afternoon tea
3:30-5:00	Free zoo time
7:00-	Twilight music (Optional - a few tickets still available)

Annotated Zoo Map

If you come to the zoo by tram or train, you will need to walk through the main path of the zoo until nearly the main entrance. Turn off at the orangutans.
If you come by car, you will be at the main entrance, look for the otters or tigers path to get to the Bong Su room.


Data Science Melbourne will host a meetup featuring Hadley Wickham in the evening of Mon Feb 22, 2016.

Feb 18-19, 2016 at the Melbourne Zoo

Programme

Annotated Zoo Map

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