https://www.rostrum.blog/tags/conference/ Recent content in Conference on rostrum.blog Hugo -- gohugo.io en-gb Wed, 15 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.rostrum.blog/2023/03/15/in-a-dungeon/ Wed, 15 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.rostrum.blog/2023/03/15/in-a-dungeon/ Learn hard and you too can be a mobile gamedev like me. tl;dr Today I spoke at a public sector1 event for data scientists2. I said that learning is best when focused into little projects that are fun. To the point The abstract sums it up, obviously: Ever done a technical training module and then immediately forgot what you learnt? Do you sometimes feel like you’re ticking boxes instead of actually developing your skills? https://www.rostrum.blog/2022/09/07/earl22/ Wed, 07 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.rostrum.blog/2022/09/07/earl22/ Please don’t sue me for my fan art, Microsoft. tl;dr I presented some slides at the EARL 2022 conference about {a11ytables}: an R package that helps automate the production of reproducible and accessible spreadsheets, with a focus on publication of government statistics. Counting sheets The UK government publishes a lot of spreadsheets that contain statistical tables. Compared to each other—and to themselves over time—these files are often: inconsistent in structure (e. https://www.rostrum.blog/2020/09/27/targets-dsfest/ Sun, 27 Sep 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.rostrum.blog/2020/09/27/targets-dsfest/ An excuse to use the dam good (lol) beavers1 data (Nature on PBS via Giphy) tl;dr I spoke at the UK Government Data Science Festival about Will Landau’s R package {targets} for workflow reproducibility. You can jump to the embedded slides below. {targets} Reproducibility is an important part of any data analysis. Will people be able to re-run your code from scratch on a different machine without you present?