[ONLINE]- R in Production

Hi, everybody!
We are super excited to have Veerle van Leemput with us, Managing Director and Head of Data Science from Analytic Health- sharing her knowledge with us on how to run R in production!

DESCRIPTION

We often hear that R can’t be used for production, but is this true? Isn’t the statement that R is ‘just a research-only language mainly used by academia’ outdated?

Spoiler alert: you definitely can use R in production. From ETL to (Shiny) web applications to machine learning models: some of the main business processes at Analytic Health are powered by R. During this talk, Veerle will dive into what “production” means and how you can use R in a context outside of academia. By showing how R is being used at Analytic Health and how processes and applications are deployed and managed we hope to show you that R can do more than statistics only. This talk will inspire you to take R one step further, and by providing pointers to which tools you can use to build robust processes you’ll leave this talk ready to use R in production yourself!

ABOUT VEERLE

Veerle is an entrepreneur and Data Scientist who gets excited about data and programming. She is Managing Director and Head of Data Science at Analytic Health, a UK-based company that develops intelligent and accessible technology which gives organisations the tools they need to accelerate innovation in healthcare. She is a R developer with a Master’s Degree in Data Science and multiple years of experience in the pharmaceutical market. Besides programming in R (and Shiny) she also develops multiple web applications for healthcare organisations using Vue.js and Node.