Wellington R Users Group   20 November 2014   Duncan Garmonsway   NZ Police
Channel: Wellington R Users Group
Date: 2014-11-23

Who:     Duncan Garmonsway, NZ Police / Statistics student at Victoria University, Wellington

Focus:    "Painfully big data in a restrictive IT environment"
Does your IT department provide 16GB of RAM? Does it allow uploading of data to a high-performance cloud computing service? Oh really? In this talk, Duncan will present some coping strategies for legacy hardware using packages like data.table and dplyr, ff and ff-base, LaF, and the databases MonetDB and spatialite.

Biography:   Duncan is a student of statistics at Victoria University, Wellington.  He is currently employed at the NZ Police as a road policing analyst and he has previously worked for the New Zealand Defence Force and the Ministry of Justice. He has used R since 2011, primarily to manipulate and visualise large-ish datasets in a reproducible way.