Wednesday, January 29

All times are listed in Pacific Standard Time (PST)


Session 1: Programming
11:30a - 1:00p

Simplified Data Quality Monitoring of Dynamic Longitudinal Data: A Functional Programming Approach
Jacqueline Gutman, Flatiron Health

vctrs: Creating custom vector classes with the vctrs package
Jesse Sadler, Loyola Marymount University

Asynchronous programming in R
Winston Chang, RStudio

Azure Pipelines and GitHub Actions
Jim Hester, RStudio


Session 2: Finance
2:15p - 3:45p

15 Years of R in Quantitative Finance
Brandon Farr, Copper Rock Capital Partners

Deep Learning Extraction for Counterparty Risk Signals from a Corpus of Millions of Documents
Moody Hadi, S&P Global - Market Intelligence

Rpanda trading simulation - from an idea to a multi-user shiny app
Nima Safaian, rpanda

The good, the bad and the ugly: What I learned while consulting across the business as a data scientist
Ben Barnard, Wells Fargo


Session 3: Pharma
4:00p - 5:30p

Approaches to Assay Processing Package Validation
Ellis Hughes, Fred Hutch Cancer Research Center

Building a native iPad dashboard using plumber and RStudio Connect in Pharma
Aymen Waqar, Astellas Pharma US

FlatironKitchen: How we overhauled a Frankensteinian SQL workflow with the tidyverse
Nathaniel Phillips, Roche

Using R to Create Reproducible Engineering Test Reports
Ana Alyeska Santos, Biosense Webster, Inc.

Thursday, January 30

All times are listed in Pacific Standard Time (PST)


Session 4: Medicine
10:30a - 12:00p

Building a Medical Device with R
Ron Keizer, InsightRX

Development of a web-based clinical decision support application for platelet transfusion management
Justin Juskewitch, Mayo Clinic

Forecasting Platelet Blood Bag Demand to Reduce Inventory Wastage at the Stanford Blood Center
Qian Zhao, Stanford University

Shiny New Things: Using R to Bridge the Gap in EMR Reporting
Mr. Brendan Graham, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia


Session 5: Programming
1:00p - 2:30p

Auto-magic package development: Building an R API for building Vega-Lite Specs
Alicia Schep, Outlier AI

Bridging the gap between SQL and R: Introducing queryparser and tidyquery
Ian Cook, Cloudera

List-columns in data.table: Reducing the cognitive and computational burden when working with comple
Tyson Barrett, Utah State University

Advances in tidyeval
Lionel Henry, RStudio