Installing Packages without Internet
Graham Parsons At Mango we’re often giving R training in locations where a reliable WiFi connection is not always guaranteed, so if we need trainees to download packages from CRAN it can be a...
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Busted: 6 myths about using R in financial services
R has come a long way since its inception in the early 1990s. Although data scientists have been singing its praises for years now, myths about R and its use in financial services and big data...
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Writing a conference abstract the data science way
Adnan Fiaz Conferences are an ideal platform to share your work with the wider community. However, as we all know, conferences require potential speakers to submit abstracts about their talk. And...
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sasMap: static code analysis for SAS
Ava Yang You may drop your weapons, this is not going to be about SAS vs R. If you work with a large amount of SAS legacy code, sasMap, an R package with a Shiny app, is for you. It evolved from our...
View ArticleEARL abstract submissions close in two weeks
If you’ve been doing exciting things in your organisation with the help of R and you’ve been thinking about submitting an abstract, now’s the time to put yours together! Based on the abstracts received...
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Goodbye SAS, hello R: why you need to make the switch and how Mango can help
Time to switch R is the most popular analytic language in the world today following an incredible increase in popularity over recent years. If you’re involved in data analytics, you need to be fluent...
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Yes, you can run R in the cloud securely
Once thought of as the ‘little programming language that could’, R has fundamentally transformed the way data scientists and organisations use their data. It gives businesses the power to leverage big...
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Tidy Text Mining of David Bowie’s Lyrics
by Nic Crane After hearing about tidytext from colleagues who went to the RStudio conference last month, I decided to try it out. If you want to try out tidy text mining for yourself, check out the...
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The Wizarding World of rstudio::conf 2017
After the success of last January’s “Shiny Dev Con“, our friends at RStudio are back with their first full-blown conference, “rstudio::conf“. Like our own EARL Conference, rstudio::conf was preceeded...
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Dynamically generated Shiny UI
Gábor Csárdi — Mango Solutions Joe Cheng — RStudio Introduction It is not uncommon that the user interface of a Shiny application needs to be generated dynamically, based on data or program state. One...
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EARL London 2016 revisited – Day 1
This year’s EARL conference in London was another huge success. In this blogpost we revisit some of the presentations from Day 1. In stream 1 the conference started off with a presentation about...
View ArticleTesting without the internet using mock functions
Karina Marks, Gabor Csardi Testing At Mango we validate and test packages for our ValidR customers. We create unit tests for different requirements of functions. These tests must run on a customer’s...
View ArticleProject package libraries and reproducibility
Gábor Csárdi, Consultant, Mango Solutions Introduction If you are an R user it has probably happened to you that you upgraded some R package in your R installation, and then suddenly your R script or...
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Data Visualisation
by Nic Crane, Data Scientist Data visualisation is a key piece of the analysis process. At Mango, we consider the ability to create compelling visualisations to be sufficiently important that we...
View Articlecovr: A Victory for Open Source
Aimee Gott, Mango Solutions As an academic statistician, my life before I joined Mango was one in which the concepts of “proper programming” didn’t exist. I was one of those people who wrote ad-hoc...
View ArticleGeographic data to service the needs of a remote employee – part2
Ava Yang, Mango Solutions Recap In part 1 of this post I set out to find a flat to rent based on three simple criteria: Café density Tube station density Monthly rent So far I have made use of the...
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Apache Projects at Strata EU
Douglas Ashton 7 June 2016 At the beginning of June Mango made the trip to the Strata + Hadoop World big data conference at the Excel Centre in London. I’ve been to Strata twice now and find it a...
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Hacking the Data Science Radar with Data Science
This post was first published by original author Duncan Garmonsway and reproduced with his kind permission. This post reverse-engineers the Mango Solutions Data Science Radar using Programming (R)...
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Strata + Hadoop World 2016 London
By Mark Sellors, Mango Solutions Last week saw the return of O’Reilly’s Strata and Hadoop World conference to London. Strata is focused firmly on the ‘big data’ end of the data science spectrum and...
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Geographic data to service the needs of a remote employee – part1
By Ava Yang Background Ever since I started working remotely, some friends suggested “Why not work as usual as you travel across China, instead of staying in Shanghai?” Many cool people have practiced...
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