R in Swiss Official Statistics: Autumn Meetup

Welcome to adminR!

We are pleased to invite you to our ninth edition of the semi-annual R meetup, adminR – R in Official Statistics. We are grateful to the Swiss National Bank for hosting this event in Zurich.

As usual, there will be 🍻, 🍿 and great discussions after the following presentations:

Navigating APIs with R: An Introductory Overview
Julia Gustavsen, Agroscope

This talk will cover everything you've always wanted to know about APIs in R, but were afraid to ask, including some of the basics of what APIs are, how to interact with them using R, and their role in data science. Additionally, we'll draw from a range of examples, including projects from my previous roles, as well as ongoing projects at Agroscope.

From {dbplyr} to {duckplyr} – first applications in the context of SNB‘s payments data
Christoph Meyer, SNB, Kirill Müller, cynkra

The SIC system, Switzerland's central payment system, generates several million transaction records every day. Analysing this data in near real time is crucial for monitoring the security and efficiency of cashless payment systems, one of the SNB's core tasks. Loading the entire data set into working memory/RAM is still prohibitively expensive, but the latest and most advanced technologies such as DBI/dbplyr, Parquet/Arrow and duckdb/duckplyr make data analysis easier, faster and more convenient. We present the evolution of the data analysis process from a tedious manual, chunk-based approach to a frictionless pipeline where memory constraints hardly matter.