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Hey, LondonR!

The event will be brought to you by Datacove. We are a Data Consultancy Team based in Brighton, with experience in founding many well-attended events for R and Python. New leadership team, but the same brilliant community.

We will be supported by the generous team, organised by Valerio Ficcadenti, at London Southbank University, in Elephant and Castle, London. Hosted by Abbie Brookes and Jeremy Horne from Datacove.

We are thrilled to be joined by Duncan Stoddard, Data Scientist at DS Analytics. DS Analytics help companies use data to optimise decision making. They specialise in marketing effectiveness, causal inference, customer lifetime value and all things Bayesian. Duncan will be enlightening us with a talk on 'Bayesian Marketing Mix Modelling in R'. He continues to explain that the talk will cover using Stan and R to build marketing models, whether it's worth building your own MMM or just using Robyn, and many other topics!

Next, we can't wait to be hearing from Andrie de Vries, Director of Product Strategy at Posit PBC! He will be sharing a talk on "Lessons learnt from Product Management, applied to Data Science". Expanding, "As a Data Scientist you build data products all the time. You may even have worked with a Product Manager to create analyses and dashboards for decision making. But are you applying the skills of product management in your data science role? In this talk Andrie provides an overview of Product Management (PM), and what he’s learnt over two decades of managing products, ranging from hardware (Psion PDAs) to software (Microsoft R Open, Posit Workbench) and hosted services (MRAN)."

After, we have lined up another excellent talk from Alex Glaser, Data Scientist at AIGTECH. Alex will be sharing a talk with us on 'Covid and Data Science'. Ah yes, that illness we are all still trying to forget... He goes on to tell us more, "We have all lived with COVID and lockdown over the last few years and, no doubt, had our own opinions about the rights and wrongs about the decisions taken by the Government. This talk won’t tell you the reasons why certain decisions were made (after all there is a public inquiry for that) but I will go over some of my experiences in the Infectious Disease Modelling team in the UK Health Security Agency. This talk will go over some of the projects during this time, the models used, results obtained and the papers published." We can't wait!

If our fascinating talks weren't enough to make you sign up to London R - let's tell you more!

The event will have plenty of opportunity to network amongst like-minded individuals in the R scene. The event will also boast nibbles and drinks. Plus merchandise sent directly from Posit. Additionally, for those who would love to join - we will be moving to a pub afterwards (TBC)!

We can't wait to see you all and meet some new faces. :)

Location Instructions: Arrive at the Business Building on Milcote Street. The room code is Floor One, Learning Lounge. If requiring assistance - the reception and our organisers will aid your arrival. What3Words: punk.single.enter