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Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist
Monday
, July 3
5:00pm CEST
Shuttle Buses
Brussels South Train Station
6:00pm CEST
Meet and greet diversity scholars
Wild Gallery
6:30pm CEST
Sessions for useR! Newbies
PLENARY
Tuesday
, July 4
8:00am CEST
REGISTRATION
Wild Gallery
9:30am CEST
Dose-response analysis using R
4.02
Geospatial visualization using R
4.03
Introduction to Bayesian inference with JAGS
2.01
Sports Analytics with R
4.01
2:00pm CEST
Efficient R Programming
PLENARY
Introduction to Natural Language Processing with R
3.02
Introduction to optimal changepoint detection algorithms
4.01
Spatial data in R: new directions
4.03
3:30pm CEST
COFFEE BREAK
CATERING POINTS
4:00pm CEST
data.table for beginners
3.01
5:30pm CEST
WELCOME RECEPTION
CATERING POINTS
Wednesday
, July 5
8:00am CEST
REGISTRATION
Wild Gallery
9:00am CEST
WELCOME
PLENARY
9:15am CEST
Sponsor Talk Microsoft
PLENARY
9:30am CEST
KEYNOTE: Structural Equation Modeling: models, software and stories
PLENARY
10:30am CEST
COFFEE BREAK
CATERING POINTS
11:00am CEST
RIOT SESSION
4.03
Analysis of German Fuel Prices with R
PLENARY
11:18am CEST
Adaptive Subgroup Selection in Sequential Trials
3.01
bradio: Add data music widgets to your business intelligence dashboards
4.02
When is an Outlier an Outlier? The O3 plot
PLENARY
11:36am CEST
Collaborative Development in R: A Case Study with the sparsebn package
3.02
Curve Linear Regression with **clr**
2.01
Distributional Trees and Forests
2.02
EpiModel: An R Package for Mathematical Modeling of Infectious Disease over Networks
3.01
Interacting with databases from Shiny
4.02
Sports Betting and R: How R is changing the sports betting world
PLENARY
11:54am CEST
ICAOD: An R Package to Find Optimal Designs for Nonlinear Models with Imperialist Competitive Algorithm
2.01
metawRite: Review, write and update meta-analysis results
3.01
mlrHyperopt: Effortless and collaborative hyperparameter optimization experiments
2.02
RL10N: Translating Error Messages & Warnings
3.02
ShinyProxy
4.02
Urban green spaces and their biophonic soundscape component
PLENARY
12:12pm CEST
**addhaz**: Contribution of chronic diseases to the disability burden in *R*
3.01
Maps are data, so why plot data on a map?
PLENARY
Maximum growth rate estimation with **growthrates**
2.01
The R6 Class System
3.02
12:30pm CEST
LUNCH
CATERING POINTS
1:30pm CEST
**shadow**: R Package for Geometric Shade Calculations in an Urban Environment
3.01
Integrated Cluster Analysis with R in Drug Discovery Experiments using Multi-Source Data
2.01
R-Ladies Global Community
PLENARY
Stream processing with R in AWS
3.02
Text mining, the tidy way
4.02
The use of R in predictive maintenance: A use case with TRUMPF Laser GmbH
2.02
1:48pm CEST
**RQGIS** - integrating *R* with QGIS for innovative geocomputing
3.01
Architectural Elements Enabling R for Big Data
3.02
Clustering transformed compositional data using *coseq*
2.01
manifestoR - a tool for data journalists, a source for text miners and a prototype for reproducibility software
4.02
Too good for your own good: Shiny prototypes out of control
2.02
We R a Community-making high quality courses for high education accessible for all:The >eR-Biostat initiative
PLENARY
2:06pm CEST
A Tidy Data Model for Natural Language Processing
4.02
Beyond Prototyping: Best practices for R in critical enterprise environments
2.02
Extracting Meaningful Noisy Biclusters from a Binary Big-Data Matrix using the BiBitR R Package
2.01
How the R Consortium is Supporting the R Community
PLENARY
Link2GI - Easy linking Open Source GIS with R
3.01
Rc$^2$: an Environment for Running R and Spark in Docker Containers
3.02
2:24pm CEST
Diversity of the R Community
PLENARY
Implementing Predictive Analytics projects in corporate environments
2.02
Interfacing Google's spherical geometry library (S2) for spatial data in R
3.01
kmlShape: clustering longitudinal data according to their shapes
2.01
R goes Mobile: Efficient Scheduling for Parallel R Programs on Heterogeneous Embedded Systems
3.02
Text Analysis and Text Mining Using R
4.02
2:42pm CEST
**rTRNG**: Advanced Parallel Random Number Generation in R
3.02
Neural Embeddings and NLP with R and Spark
4.02
Scalable, Spatiotemporal Tidy Arrays for R (stars)
3.01
We R What We Ask: The Landscape of R Users on Stack Overflow
PLENARY
3:00pm CEST
COFFEE BREAK
CATERING POINTS
3:30pm CEST
Sponsor Talk Data Camp
PLENARY
3:45pm CEST
KEYNOTE: Teaching data science to new useRs
PLENARY
4:45pm CEST
COFFEE BREAK
CATERING POINTS
5:00pm CEST
Navigating the R package universe
PLENARY
6:30pm CEST
Poster Reception
CATERING POINTS
Thursday
, July 6
8:00am CEST
REGISTRATION
Wild Gallery
9:15am CEST
Sponsor Talk Open Analytics
PLENARY
9:30am CEST
KEYNOTE: Dose-response analysis: considering dose both as qualitative factor and quantitative covariate- using R*
PLENARY
10:30am CEST
COFFEE BREAK
CATERING POINTS
11:00am CEST
**rags2ridges**: A One-Stop-Go for Network Modeling of Precision Matrices
3.01
Bayesian social network analysis with Bergm
4.01
Hosting Data Packages via `drat`: A Case Study with Hurricane Exposure Data
2.02
moodler: A new R package to easily fetch data from Moodle
4.02
Show Me Your Model: tools for visualisation of statistical models
PLENARY
Using the alphabetr package to determine paired T cell receptor sequences
2.01
11:18am CEST
Can you keep a secret?
4.02
Clouds, Containers and R, towards a global hub for reproducible and collaborative data science
2.02
Differentiation of brain tumor tissue using hierarchical non-negative matrix factorization
2.01
difNLR: Detection of potentional gender/minority bias with extensions of logistic regression
4.01
Quantitative fisheries advice using R and FLR
PLENARY
Various Versatile Variances: An Object-Oriented Implementation of Clustered Covariances in *R*
3.01
11:36am CEST
**BradleyTerryScalable**: Ranking items scalably with the Bradley-Terry model
4.01
*jamovi*: a spreadsheet for R
PLENARY
Biosignature-Based Drug Design: from high dimensional data to business impact
2.01
codebookr: Codebooks in *R*
2.02
factorMerger: a set of tools to support results from post hoc testing
3.01
Scraping data with rvest and purrr
4.02
11:54am CEST
Estimating the Parameters of a Continuous-Time Markov Chain from Discrete-Time Data with ctmcd
3.01
Interactive and Reproducible Research for RNA Sequencing Analysis
2.01
IRT test equating with the R package equateIRT
4.01
jug: Building Web APIs for R
4.02
Show me the errors you didn't look for
2.02
The growing popularity of R in data journalism
PLENARY
12:12pm CEST
Automatically archiving reproducible studies with Docker
2.02
FFTrees: An R package to create, visualise and use fast and frugal decision trees
PLENARY
MCMC Output Analysis Using R package mcmcse
3.01
Stochastic Gradient Descent Log-Likelihood Estimation in the Cox Proportional Hazards Model with Applications to The Cancer Genome Atlas Data
2.01
12:30pm CEST
LUNCH
CATERING POINTS
1:30pm CEST
An Efficient Algorithm for Solving Large Fixed Effects OLS Problems with Clustered Standard Error Estimation
3.01
Community-based learning and knowledge sharing
PLENARY
Interactive graphs for blind and print disabled people
4.02
R-based computing with big data on disk
2.01
ReinforcementLearning: A package for replicating human behavior in R
3.02
The **renjin** package: Painless Just-in-time Compilation for High Performance R
2.02
1:48pm CEST
An LLVM-based Compiler Toolkit for R
2.02
Daff: diff, patch and merge for data.frames
2.01
Data Carpentry: Teaching Reproducible Data Driven Discovery
PLENARY
Deep Learning for Natural Language Processing in R
3.02
Package ggiraph: a ggplot2 Extension for Interactive Graphics
4.02
R Package glmm: Likelihood-Based Inference for Generalized Linear Mixed Models
3.01
2:06pm CEST
**countreg**: Tools for count data regression
3.01
odbc - A modern database interface
2.01
Performance Benchmarking of the R Programming Environment on Knight's Landing
2.02
R4ML: A Scalable R for Machine Learning
3.02
Statistics in Action with R: an educative platform
PLENARY
Visual funnel plot inference for meta-analysis
4.02
2:24pm CEST
*GNU R* on a Programmable Logic Controller (PLC) in an Embedded-Linux Environment
2.02
A quasi-experiment for the influence of the user interface on the acceptance of R
PLENARY
Computer Vision and Image Recognition algorithms for R users
3.02
How to Use (R)Stan to Estimate Models in External R Packages
3.01
Improving DBI
2.01
mapedit - interactive manipulation of spatial objects
4.02
2:42pm CEST
*implyr**: A **dplyr** Backend for a Apache Impala
2.01
brms: Bayesian Multilevel Models using Stan
3.01
Depth and depth-based classification with R package **ddalpha**
3.02
Exploring and presenting maps with **tmap**
4.02
The analysis of R learning styles with R
PLENARY
3:00pm CEST
COFFEE BREAK
CATERING POINTS
3:30pm CEST
Sponsor Talk Rstudio
PLENARY
3:45pm CEST
KEYNOTE: Parallel Computation in R: What We Want, and How We (Might) Get It
PLENARY
5:15pm CEST
COFFEE BREAK
CATERING POINTS
5:30pm CEST
DNA methylation-based classification of human central nervous system tumors
4.01
R and Tableau Integration: A Case approach
2.02
R Blogging with blogdown and GitHub
3.02
R in a small-sized bank's risk management
4.02
rdwd – manage German weather observations
2.01
The cutpointr package: Improved and tidy estimation of optimal cutpoints
3.01
5:35pm CEST
**eventstudies**: An *R* package for conducting event studies and a platform for methodological research on event studies
4.02
**redmineR** and the story of automating *useR!2017* abstract review process
3.02
eseis – A toolbox to weld seismologic and geomorphic data analysis
2.01
Multivariate statistics for PAT data analysis: short overview of existing R packages and methods
4.01
Preparing Datetime Data with Padr
3.01
The dataCompareR package
2.02
5:40pm CEST
An R Decision Support Framework for the Identification of BMP in Catchments
2.01
Automatic Machine Learning in R
4.02
R in Minecraft
3.01
R in research on microbial mutation rates
4.01
The current state of naming conventions in R
3.02
Use of templates within an R package to create a (semi-)automated analysis workflow and/or report
2.02
5:45pm CEST
An Introduction to the r2anki-package
3.02
graphiT: an interactive, user-friendly tool to produce graphics based on the grammar of graphics' principles
2.02
Plasmid Profiler: Comparative Analysis of Plasmid Content in WGS Data
4.01
R in a Pharmaceutical Company
4.02
Reproducible research in computational subsurface hydrology - First steps in R with RMODFLOW and RMT3DMS
2.01
5:50pm CEST
**heatmaply**: an *R* package for creating interactive cluster heatmaps
2.02
Application of R and Shiny in multiomics understanding of blood cancer biology and drug response
4.01
Data Analysis Using Hierarchical Generalized Linear Models with R
3.01
rOpenGov: community project for open government data
3.02
Using an R package as platform for harmonized cleaning of data from RTI MicroPEM air quality sensors
2.01
Using R to Analyze Healthcare Cost of Older Patients Using Personal Emergency Response Service
4.02
5:55pm CEST
map data from **naturalearth** : aiming for sustainability through specialisation and **rOpenSci**
2.01
Plot Colour Helper – Finally an easy way to pick colours for your R plots!
2.02
R.gov: making R work for government
3.02
Simulate phenotype(s) with epistatic interactions
4.01
Statistics hitting the business front line
4.02
The R package bigstatsr: Memory- and Computation-Efficient Statistical Tools for Big Matrices
3.01
6:00pm CEST
Advanced R Solutions -- A Bookdown Project
3.01
An example of Shiny tool at Nestlé R&D, an enabler to guide product developers in designing gluten free biscuits
4.02
bsplus: Using Twitter Bootstrap to extend your Shiny app
2.02
Introducing the DynNom package for the generation of dynamic nomograms
4.01
nsoAPI - retrieving data from National Statistical Offices with R
3.02
OpenSpat, spread the spatial world
2.01
6:05pm CEST
Functional Input Validation with valaddin
3.01
Graduate from plot to ggplot2: Using R to visualize the story of Ebola survivors in the PREVAIL III Ebola Natural History Study
4.01
Jurimetrics: quantitative analysis of judicial decisions using R
3.02
smires -- Calculating Hydrological Metrics for Univariate Time Series
2.01
TAGS - Table Assorting Guided System: an HTML widget to create multiple tables from Excel spreadsheets
2.02
Using R for optimal beer recipe selection
4.02
6:10pm CEST
**BivRegBLS**, a new *R* package: Tolerance Intervals and Errors-in-Variables Regressions in Method Comparison Studies
4.01
Candy Crush R Saga
4.02
minimalRSD and FMC: R packages to construct cost efficient experimental designs
2.01
Object-oriented markdown in R to facilitate collaboration
2.02
ROI - R Optimization Infrastructure
3.01
Shiny Apps for Maths and Stats Exercises
3.02
6:15pm CEST
Gamifyr: Transforming Machine Learning Tasks into Games with Shiny
4.02
ICtest: Estimating the Number of Interesting Components
2.01
simmer: Discrete-Event Simulation for R
3.01
Strategies for Reproducible Research with Packrat
2.02
What is missing from the meta-analysis landscape?
4.01
Working with R when internet is not reliable
3.02
6:20pm CEST
Better Confidence Intervals for Quantiles
2.01
Data Error! But where?
3.01
Ultra-Fast Data Mining With The R-KDB+ Interface
4.02
6:30pm CEST
Buses
Wild Gallery
7:00pm CEST
Dinner
BRUSSELS EXPO
Friday
, July 7
8:00am CEST
REGISTRATION
Wild Gallery
9:15am CEST
Sponsor Talk Rconsortium
PLENARY
9:30am CEST
KEYNOTE: R tools for the analysis of complex heterogeneous data
PLENARY
10:30am CEST
COFFEE BREAK
CATERING POINTS
11:00am CEST
Actuarial and statistical aspects of reinsurance in R
2.02
Change Point Detection in Persistence Diagrams
3.01
IntegratedJM - an R package to Jointly Model the Gene-Expression and Bioassay Data, Taking Care of the Fingerprint Feature effect
3.02
naniar: Data structures and functions for consistent exploration of missing data
2.01
Programming with tidyverse grammars
4.02
Teaching psychometrics and analysing educational tests with **ShinyItemAnalysis**
PLENARY
11:18am CEST
Detecting eQTLs from high-dimensional sequencing data using recount2
3.02
Easy imputation with the simputation package
2.01
Interactive bullwhip effect exploration using SCperf and Shiny
2.02
Letting R sense the world around it with **shinysense**
PLENARY
Modules in R
4.02
Morphological Analysis with R
3.01
11:36am CEST
Generating Missing Values for Simulation Purposes: A Multivariate Amputation Procedure
2.01
Integrated analysis of digital PCR experiments in R
3.02
Markov-Switching GARCH Models in R: The MSGARCH Package
2.02
ompr: an alternative way to model mixed-integer linear programs
3.01
papr: Tinder for pre-prints, a Shiny Application for collecting gut-reactions to pre-prints from the scientific community
PLENARY
Taking Advantage of the Byte Code Compiler
4.02
11:54am CEST
Dynamic Assessment of Microbial Ecology (*DAME*): A Shiny App for Analysis and Visualization of Microbial Sequencing Data
3.02
Dynamic modeling and parameter estimation with dMod
3.01
How to deal with Missing Data in Time Series and the imputeTS package
2.01
R and Haskell: Combining the best of two worlds
2.02
shiny.collections: Google Docs-like live collaboration in Shiny
PLENARY
12:12pm CEST
LUNCH
CATERING POINTS
1:15pm CEST
KEYNOTE: 20 years of CRAN
PLENARY
2:15pm CEST
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