satRday Cardiff
A conference for users of the R Language on 16th November 2019
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Conference Details

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16th November at Cardiff University

Hands on

Practical applications and workshop sessions

Learning

Gain knowledge from your peers and experienced professionals

Community Lead

Community organised, community focussed

Affordable

Less than a days wage

Accessible

Inclusive, supportive and respectful environment

Register

We have support available for financial hardship. You can self-certify for one of a limited pot of 20 financial hardship tickets here

Schedule

Hadyn Ellis Medical Research Facilitys

Hackathon

We will explore a unique dataset collated by Anna-Jayne Metcalfe for the TDOR website.

  • Cardiff University Main Building Council Chamber (Room 1.77, 1st floor, Main Building, Park Place, CF10 3AT)
  • 15 November 2019
  • 13:00-17:30
The event will involve activities suitable for all levels and backgrounds so feel free to come along. Click here for further info.

Team

The people putting Cardiff satRday together

Sefa Ozalp

Sefa Ozalp

Co-Organiser

Lives in Cardiff, UK

I use R to wrangle big social media data and monitor/analyse cyber-hate speech.

Paul Brennan

Paul Brennan

Co-Organiser

Lives in Cardiff, UK
Heather Turner

Heather Turner

Co-Organiser

Lives in Newport, UK
Dave Parr

Dave Parr

Co-Organiser

Lives in Cardiff, UK
  • Head of Data Science at Surple
Dominik Krzemiński

Dominik Krzemiński

Co-Organiser

Lives in Cardiff, UK
  • PhD student at Cardiff University Brain Research Imaging Centre
  • Open Source Tech Lead at Appsilon
Steph Locke

Steph Locke

Co-Organiser

Lives in Cardiff, UK
Mark James

Mark James

Co-Organiser

Lives in Cardiff, UK
  • Senior BI & Data Warehouse Dev at NHS

Key Note Speakers

Dr. Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel

Dr. Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel

Principal Investigator, University of Edinburgh & Professional Educator and Data Scientist, RStudio.

Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel is Senior Lecturer in the School of Mathematics at University of Edinburgh and Data Scientist and Professional Educator at RStudio. Mine’s work focuses on innovation in statistics and data science pedagogy, with an emphasis on computing, reproducible research, student-centered learning, and open-source education as well as pedagogical approaches for enhancing retention of women and under-represented minorities in STEM.

Arun Srinivasan

Arun Srinivasan

Co-developer, rdatatable

Arun Srinivasan is originally from Tamilnadu, India. He started contributing to the data.table project in late 2013 and has been a part of the project since then. He enjoys implementing algorithms that facilitates speedy analysis of large data. He currently works as an analyst in Finance in London, United Kingdom.

Diversity

satRday is dedicated to providing a harassment-free and inclusive conference experience for all in attendance regardless of, but not limited to, gender, sexual orientation, disabilities, physical attributes, age, ethnicity, social standing, religion or political affiliation. We do not tolerate harassment of participants (including organisers and vendors) in any form. Sexual innuendos and imagery are not appropriate for any conference venue, including presentations. Anyone violating these rules may be given warning or expelled from the conference (without a refund) at the discretion of the conference organisers. Our code of conduct/anti-harassment policy can be found here.

Contact us

Email us at satrday.cardiff@gmail.com