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Speakers
Our speakers for SatRday Chicago 2019. Click on their profiles for more information about their talks!
Aaron Hawn
Research Analyst at North Central College
Adam Austin
Freewheeling Data Scientist at Allstate
Adam Lyon
Senior Scientist at Fermilab
Alexandra Mangold
Senior Director of Operations & Analytics, Measure UAS
Amy Yang
Uptake, Sr. Data Scientist
Anh Tran
Postdoc at Northwestern U
Annie Wang
R-Ladies Chicago
Bill Seliger
Supply Chain Leader
Brett Kobold
Senior Manager - Marketing Analytics
Brian Burns
Senior Data Scientist - Uptake
Bryan Berend
Sr. Applied Data Scientist @ Civis Analytics
Charlotte Mack
Independent R user
Chase Clark
PhD Candidate, University of Illinois at Chicago
David Thomas
Senior Research and Data Analyst
Irene Farah
Research Associate at the Center for Spatial Data Science
James Lamb
Staff Data Scientist - Uptake
Jane Berkowitz
Sr Business Analyst, Capital One
Jay Qi
Data Science Technical Lead at Uptake
Jorge Argueta
AVP, Product Manager
Joshua Goldberg
Nuveen, Senior Analyst Distribution Data Science
Kate Webbink
Field Museum of Natural History
Kelly O’Briant
RStudio Solutions Engineer
Kristen Van Tine
Research Associate at Northwestern University
Manny Bernabe
Uptake, Data Science
Parfait Gasana
Data Analyst, Winston & Strawn
Patrick Miller
Senior Data Scientist - Civis Analytics
Peter Cooman
Senior Applied Data Scientist at Civis Analytics
Raymond Buhr
Data Scientist at Braintree, a PayPal Service
Sherry Shenker
Applied Data Scientist, Civis Analytics
Sushmita V Gopalan
Data Scientist, Northwestern University
TJ Mahr
UW-Madison Waisman Center
Tomas Okal
Research Analyst
Will Bonnell
NORC at the University of Chicago
Schedule
Schedule is subject to change.
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| 08:00 - 09:00 | Check-in/Breakfast | ||
| 09:00 - 09:15 | Opening Remarks SatRday Chicago Organizers |
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| 09:10 - 09:45 | Keynote: What Data Science Can Learn from Sociology Stephanie Kirmer |
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| 9:45 - 10:00 | Coffee Break | ||
| 10:00 - 11:00 | Session 1 | ||
| Academic and Civic Applications Bioinformatics in R Chase Clark Applying Empirical Bayesian Techniques to Illinois Traffic Stop Data Bryan Berend Spatial point pattern analysis of retail businesses Irene Farah |
Industry Applications Correcting bias in customer acquistions models Peter Cooman Building an Analytics Culture at Allstate Adam Austin Lightning talk: MoRtality: Using R for Life Insurance Annie Wang Lightning talk: Missing Map Values Brett Kobold |
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| 11:00 - 11:15 | Coffee Break | ||
| 11:15 - 12:15 | Session 2 | ||
| Reproducibility & Workflow Enhancement Recursive Package Dependencies Brian Burns No more “works for me”: Using Docker Patrick Miller Lightning Talk: Making C++ Run Better Adam Lyon Lightning Talk: No APIs? No Problem Josh Goldberg |
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Building Data Tools (Lightning Talk Round!) Shiny apps for the non-R users David Thomas and Aaron Hawn Client-facing Shiny Apps Sherry Shenker Turning R projects into packages Jane Berkowitz Developing an R package for EDA Anh Tran Prediction as a Microservice Ray Buhr People shape software James Lamb Level Up Your Package’s Docs Jay Qi |
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| 12:15 - 1:15 | Lunch | ||
| 01:15 - 01:45 | Keynote: Models, Mistakes, & Mayhem JD Long |
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| 01:45 - 02:00 | Coffee Break | ||
| 02:00 - 03:30 | Session 3 | ||
| Statistical Methods Model Evaluation and Optimization with Real World Costs and Benefits Manny Bernabe LP, IP, and MIP Optimization in R Bill Seliger Class Imbalance Methods in Machine Learning Sushmita Gopalan Try BLIS: A Framework for Rapidly Instantiating BLAS Functionality Justin Shea |
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Community Building You can do open source! James Lamb R and RStudio Tips and Tricks Amy Yang Teaching Reproducible Spatial Analysis in R Angela Li |
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| 03:30 - 03:45 | Coffee Break | ||
| 03:45 - 04:45 | Session 4 | ||
| Infrastructure Connecting teams and systems with R’s API tools Alexandra Mangold Leveraging Relational Databases in R Parfait Gasana Introduction to Linux Servers for the useR Kelly O’Briant |
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Data Wrangling, Visualization, and Applications (Lightning Talk Round!) Reshaping Reveals the Grammar of your Graphics Charlotte Mack Visualizing Uncertainty Will Bonnell Bayesplot TJ Mahr Fantastical Picks and where to trade them Tomas Okal Web Scraping, Sentiment, and Cluster Analysis Jorge Argueta Psychometrics Kristen Van Tine Misadventures in Biodiversity Data Standards Kate Webbink |
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| 04:45 - 05:00 | Closing Remarks SatRday Chicago Organizers |
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| 05:00 - 07:00 | On-site Happy Hour | ||
Important Dates
What’s happening when?
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March 1, 2019
Call for Proposals Open
Call for proposals for the first satRdays Chicago open.
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March 24, 2019
Proposal Submission Deadline @ Midnight
Submissions for regular and lightning talks close midnight Sunday. This deadline has been extended to encourage submissions.
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March 26, 2019
Tickets Open
Tickets for the first satRdays Chicago open (see above).
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April 8, 2019
Speakers Notified
Those who submitted a proposal will be notified if their talk has been accepted. We received many quality submissions this year.
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April 27, 2019
satRdays Chicago!
We look forward to seeing you at Chicago’s first satRdays conference!
Venue at Roosevelt University
Team
Who are your organizers and volunteers?
Katherine Simeon
Scarlett Winters
Sydney Purdue
Keynote Speakers
Stephanie Kirmer
Uptake
JD Long
RenaissanceRe
Diversity
satRday Chicago 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.