Shiny in January at Ookla HQ!

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Due to snow/ice in the area, we are pushing the meetup to Wednesday, January 22nd! We hope to see you there!
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Shiny is a great tool for R programmers and has a lot of functionality. This evening we have a fantastic treat to learn more about how Shiny has been used for industry.

First we will have some speakers from Ookla talking about they use shiny for fact-finding missions.

Next we have talks from Heather Nolis and Jacqueline Nolis. Heather Nolis is a Machine Learning Engineer at T-Mobile. Jacqueline Nolis is the Principal Data Scientist at Nolis, LLC. Jacqueline and Heather will discuss how they use, customize, and deploy shiny applications!

Date: 2020-01-22
(No Longer --2020-01-14-- due to snow)

Location: Ookla HQ, downtown Seattle

Doors open: 5:30pm for social time

The first presentation will start at 6:00PM. After the presentations there will be more social time!

David Hall and Katie Jolly:
Shiny is an R package that makes it easy to build interactive applications straight from R. The Ookla Data Science team hosts frequently used fact-finding tools and RMarkdown reports in a custom-built Shiny deployment. In the first half of the meetup, Ookla's Data Science team will discuss some of the challenges with building a limited feature version of Rstudio Connect then provide a functionality demo.

Heather Nolis (Machine Learning Engineer at T-Mobile) and
Jacqueline Nolis (Principal Data Scientist at Nolis, LLC):
Making machine learning models is a core part of a data scientist’s job, but that work will only be well-received by executives if they can understand the models. The AI @ T-Mobile team has been lucky enough to get funding and people for our projects by convincing vice presidents to trust our work using fun, interactive Shiny demos with T-Mobile style and branding. In this talk we’ll cover our process of creating Shiny demos, the tools we use to make them look T-Mobile magenta, and the technology we use to quickly deploy them (spoiler, it involves Docker). We’ll also show off a few of the interactive demos we made with some audience participation.

We look forward to seeing you at this sure to be fantastic meetup!

Please email/message Ellis Hughes if you have ideas for future Meetups you would like to see or organize.