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BerlinR - another R user group in Berlin

Meetup 1 : Bayesian statistics & probabilistic computing with Greta

Prasanna Bhogale 12-12-2018


Introduction to the meetup


Data scientists are not (only) statisticians

  • Culture and organization : links with software engineering (version control, agile, high quality code)
  • Tool mediated advances : algorithms closely linked to developments in hardware (GPUs) make whole new classes of problems tractable
  • Data science in the wild : the cloud, the docker revolution and devops (you build it, you run it)
  • Visualization : Javascript libraries and ever increasing expectations about quality and interactivity of visualizations
  • Powerful conceptual frameworks : Auto diff, gradient descent (TF, PyTorch), causal graphs (Judea Pearl), Bayesian everything

Objectives of BerlinR

  • Exploring modern data science from the R ecosystem (and explore surroundings.. JS ? Stan ? Keras ? API building ?)
  • Learning new concepts and skills that unlock important, interesting or beautiful aspects of data science in R
  • Covering full stack data science in R - from statistics to deep learning in production and everything in between
  • Exploring interesting use cases and domain specific challenges

Principles of BerlinR

  • Welcoming : there are no stupid questions, there is always help available
  • Uncool : make hard things easy, don't create inaccessible cliques around certain skillsets
  • Curious : learn everything, become better at everything, explore application domains
  • Useful : every talk should have
    • clear conceptual takeaways
    • reusable code
  • Collaborative : Pitch in to give talks, do side projects, contribute to the R community

Please volunteer your suggestions and comments :)

Prasanna Bhogale [email protected]