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Call For Presenters | Posters
Types of Submissions
- Talks
- Posters
- Lightning Talks
Presentations will be either 30 or 45 minutes in length, including a couple of minutes for questions at the end.
Posters will be printed posters and displayed in common area.
Lightning talks will be 5 minutes in length. We will need to have these uploaded ahead of time, and automatically run from one laptop.
Submission Guidelines
We strongly encourage topics from a variety of paradigms, disciplines and backgrounds, so there's really no hard requirement except being R-related. There is a lot of room for creativity and we look forward to hearing different voices from R community.
The submission process requires that you create an account on Sessionize prior to submitting your application. The submission requires:
- Title
- Abstract (in plain text, 1200 characters max)
- Length - If you are submitting a talk, please let us know if it’s a 30min or 45min talk. If either is fine, let us know!
- Keywords - tags that you think are relevant to your talk, eg data visualization, machine learning, best practices etc
Timeline
The deadline for submissions is midnight PST Feb 10, 2019. The Program Committee will review the submissions and notify acceptance before Mar 1, 2019.
To Submit
We are accepting submissions through sessionize.
Applications are available for both speaking and poster sessions Jan 10 - Feb 10, 2019.
Keynote Speakers
Schedule
All talk materials are available on Github.
| Time | Collins Alumni Conference Room | Time | Tom Davis Founders’ Room |
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| 08:00 - 09:00 | Check-in/Breakfast | ||
| 09:00 - 09:10 | Welcome SatRday LA Organizers |
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| 09:10 - 09:55 | Keynote: Lifting the Curtain on Machine Learning Norm Matloff |
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| 09:55 - 10:40 | Using Data Science to solve Platform Problems at TrueCar Rachel Shuyan Wang |
10:00 - 11:10 |
Workshop Building an R Package in 45 Minutes David Edison |
| 10:40 - 11:10 | Productionizing R scripts in the cloud Gergely Daróczi |
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| 11:10 - 11:20 | Break | ||
| 11:20 - 12:05 | Better Research Planning Through Simulation Neal Fultz |
11:20 - 12:35 |
Workshop Predictive Analytics in R and Prediction Error Alfonso Berumen |
| 12:05 - 12:35 | Performing Data Science: A Musician's Perspective Leondra James |
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| 12:35 - 01:30 | Lunch | ||
| 01:30 - 02:15 | Future: Friendly Parallel and Distributed Processing in R for Everyone Henrik Bengtsson |
01:30 - 03:00 |
Workshop Text Classification in tidymodels Emil Hvitfeldt |
| 02:15 - 03:00 | From correlation to causation: measuring ad effectiveness at scale Tamara Greasby |
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| 03:00 - 03:30 | Coffee Break | ||
| 03:30 - 04:00 | Shiny: A GUI for the Tidyverse Carl Ganz |
Multiple Response (Multivariate) Regression models in R Cesar Acosta-Mejia, Qile Wang |
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| 04:00 - 04:45 | Keynote: Scalable Automatic Machine Learning with H2O Erin LeDell |
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| 04:45 - 05:15 | 5min Lightning Talk x 6 | ||
| 05:15 - 05:45 | Pipes or Brackets: The Similarities and Differences b/w Dplyr and Data.Table and the Power of Un Jeremy Guinta, Amy Linehan |
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| 05:45 - 06:00 | Closing Remark SatRday LA Organizers |
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| 06:00 - 08:00 | Social Event | ||
Important Dates
Be prepared!
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Jan 10
Ticket Sale & Call for Presenters Begin
$35 for Professionals, $15 for Students
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Feb 10
Call for Presenters Ends
Don’t be late!
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Mar 10
Final Talk Schedule
Wow I am so glad I bought tickets early!
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Apr 6
The
SatRday
Our Venue at UCLA
Team
The people putting it together
Amy Tzu-Yu Chen
Organizer
Chris Mehrvarzi
Organizer
Eric Kostello
Program Committee
Gergely Daróczi
Program Committee
Linda Suen
Organizer
Neal Fultz
Program Committee
Peter Foley
Program Committee
Szilard Pafka
Program Committee
Yasmin Lucero
Program Committee
Code of Conduct
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.