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Why R? 2019 Conference – Keynotes and Workshops announced

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Why R? conference is one of the best opportunities to learn secrets of data science from the renowned experts. This year we are happy to invite you for six keynote presentations, one invited workshop and eight regular workshops.

About Why R? 2019 conference

We are more than happy to announce that Why R? 2019 Conference will be organized by Why R? Foundation. The third official meeting of Polish R enthusiasts will be held in Warsaw from the 26th to 29th of September 2019. Since English is the official language of the meeting, we would love to invite R users from other countries.

Keynote speakers

Workshops

Invited workshop

Introduction to modern Generalized Additive Models in R: Generalized Additive Models (GAMs) GAMs are powerful enough to be a cornerstone of the Prophet software developed by Facebook. Matteo Fasiolo (University of Bristol), an author of two popular GAM-related R packages, will teach how to make the best use of these models.

Regular Workshops

Workshops last around 3 hours and take place in the morning or afternoon session.

Explainable artificial intelligence (XAI) path:

This path focuses on tools used in interpretive machine learning to understand decisions made by our models.

Regular Workshops

Register!

The EARLY Bird registration and workshops submission ended 31.05.2019. However, the submission for abstracts is still open, until 28.06.2019.

Confirmed speakers will get the free entrance for the day of the conference and will receive discounts for the rest of the conference and workshops.

Register here

Past events

Why R? 2017 edition, organized in Warsaw, gathered 200 participants. The Facebook reach of the conference page exceeds 15 000 users, with almost 800 subscribers. Our official web page had over 8000 unique visitors and over 12 000 visits in general. To learn more about Why R? 2017 see the conference after movie.

Why R? 2018 edition, organized in Wroclaw, gathered 250 participants. The after movie can be found here.

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