Why R? 2019 Workshops, 27.09.2019

Place: Faculty of Economic Sciences, University of Warsaw, Długa 44/50, 00-241 Warsaw, Poland

All Day-Workshop (9:00-12:30 + 13:30-17:00)

• Introduction to modern Generalized Additive Models in R (with mgcv) Matteo Fasiolo, University of Bristol

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 utilize these models to their full potential.

Morning Session (9:00 - 12:30)

• data.table introduction & time-series
  • Jan Gorecki, H2O.AI
• auditor + DALEX: a powerful duet for validation and explanation of machine learning models
  • Alicja Gosiewska and Tomasz Mikołajczyk, MI2 Data Lab
• Shiny Basics
  • Theo Roe, Jumping Rivers
• Machine Learning Pipelines and Reproducible Research with mlr3 and drake
  • Jakob Richter (Technical University of Dortmund) and Patrick Schratz (LMU Munich)

Afternoon Session (14:00 - 17:30)

• Straightforward introduction to Deep Learning in R (with Keras)
  • Mikołaj Olszewski and Mikołaj Bogucki iDash
• „Black is the new White” - using eXplainable Artificial Intelligence in Business
  • Marcin Chlebus, Faculty of Economic Sciences, University of Warsaw, Data Juice Lab, Data Dontus
• Speeding up R wih C++ (Rcpp) - from basics to more advanced applications
  • Piotr WóJcik, Faculty of Economic Sciences, University of Warsaw
• Potentials of R for data linkage
  • Radmila Velichkovich, University of Neuchatel