#51 Functional Reproducibility

🎉 Welcome to the 51st edition of Berlin R Users Group 🎉

🎥 Stream: https://youtube.com/live/3zCrCbzDR3w?feature=share

💬 Abstract: Have you ever written the perfect program? Has it still run unchanged 6 months later? Can your colleagues run it without you? Just because your analysis is executable, it doesn't mean the results are reproducible. Data ages. Libraries change. Machines differ. Servers go down. Bits rot. Entropy is inescapable. This talk explains how to engineer reproducibility drawing on techniques from functional programming and the MLOps movement. The code examples are designed for an R audience but the lessons apply to any language.

🗣️ Speaker: Robin Gower is a freelance data engineer and data scientist with 20 years experience consulting as an economist and statistician for the public, private and social sectors. Robin is a founding member of Open Data Manchester and wrote and maintains several open source software libraries including the R packages csvwr and ldf. He lives with his family in Berlin, tinkering with electronics and brewing English ale.

⌚️ Agenda:
- 18:30-19:00: doors are open & networking
- 19:00-19:02: welcoming remarks by organizers
- 19:02-20:00: talk & questions
- 20:00-20:30: informal discussions
- 20:30: drinks & food in a nearby restaurant