Donate
We're raising money for the Greater Chicago Food Depository during this time of need.
This year's conference will be free, but we're uniting during this time to support a charity in the Chicagoland area providing essential food services to those in need. Please consider donating to our event at our virtual food drive site. Any contribution helps our local community!
Conference Livestream
Watch the conference live via YouTube!
If you did not register for satRday Chicago 2020, you can still watch the conference live via this link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xA7l7N2ktFk
Speakers
Our speakers for SatRday Chicago 2020. Click on their profiles for more information about their talks!
Adam Austin
Data Science Manager at Allstate
Alexis Johnson-Gresham
Senior Data Analyst at Brooklyn Data Co.
Brian Burns
Data Scientist at Trunk Club
Edward Visel
Data Scientist at Uptake
Elizabeth Nelson
Graduate Student at the University of Chicago
Eric Langowski
Data Scientist at the Center for Municipal Finance
Haoen Cui
Data Scientist at Uptake
James Lamb
Engineer at Saturn Cloud
Jonathan Keane
Senior Data Scientist and Team Lead at Socure
Krishna Jarugumilli
Data Scientist at CN
Scarlett Winters
Client Training Specialist at Strata Decision Technology
Susan Paykin
Graduate Student at the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy
Sydney Purdue
Research Analyst at the Cook County Sheriff’s Office
Tristán Ignacio Gramsch Calvo
Data Science Fellow at the Cook County Assessor’s office
Zaynaib Giwa
Teaching Assistant at Northwestern University Coding Bootcamp
Dirk Eddelbuettel
Contributor, Package Developer, and R Foundation Board Member
Schedule
Schedule is subject to change.
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| 09:00 - 10:00 | MiR Coffee Hour Dorris Scott, Danielle Smalls-Perkins |
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| 10:00 - 10:10 | Opening Remarks SatRday Chicago Organizers |
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| 10:10 - 11:10 | Session 1: public seRvant | ||
| 10:10 - 10:30 | Mapping Food Systems in R Susan Paykin |
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| 10:30 - 10:50 | PropeRty Taxes: Transparency, Equity, and R Eric Langowski |
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| 10:50 - 11:10 | Building a more transparent government using Shiny Tristán Ignacio Gramsch Calvo |
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| 11:10 - 11:20 | Break | ||
| 11:20 - 11:25 | Session 2: developeR SatRday Chicago Organizers |
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| 11:25 - 11:45 | Stories from LightGBM's Journey to CRAN James Lamb |
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| 11:45 - 12:05 | dittodb: making testing databases easy Jonathan Keane |
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| 12:05 - 12:25 | Docker Based r-devel Pre-Release CRAN Package Testing Brian Burns |
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| 12:25 - 12:35 | Lunch | ||
| 12:35 - 01:05 | Discussion:
Job Seekers (talk) Using R to Land the Job: A Resume-Building Tutorial in Pagedown Scarlett Winters Community of Practice Adam Austin Data Visualization Sydney Purdue Social Good Zaynaib Giwa |
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| 01:05 - 01:10 | Break | ||
| 01:10 - 01:15 | Session 3: exploreR SatRday Chicago Organizers |
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| 01:15 - 01:35 | Useful data visualization Alexis Johnson-Gresham |
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| 01:35 - 01:55 | Hot bearing failure prediction using R Krishna Jarugumilli |
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| 01:55 - 02:15 | Fitting Insurance Claim Data with Coverage Modification Haoen Cui |
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| 02:15 - 02:25 | Break | ||
| 02:25 - 02:30 | Session 4: poweR user SatRday Chicago Organizers |
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| 02:30 - 02:50 | Did we just make a web app? Using R Shiny in Production Elizabeth Nelson |
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| 02:50 - 03:10 | Querying a directory of files with Apache Drill Edward Visel |
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| 03:10 - 03:30 | Dissecting a Function: Profiling and Benchmarking Your Way to Faster Code Adam Austin |
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| 03:30 - 03:50 | The Rocker Project: Bringing Docker to R Dirk Eddelbuetel |
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| 03:50 - 04:00 | Closing SatRday Chicago Organizers |
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| 04:00 - 04:15 | Break | ||
| 04:15 - 05:00 | Discussion:
Speaker Q&A SatRday Speakers R-Ladies R-Ladies Organizers |
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Important Dates
What’s happening when?
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April 8, 2020
Call for Proposals Open
Call for proposals for satRday Chicago open.
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April 30, 2020
Proposal Submission Deadline @ Midnight
Submissions for talks close midnight.
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May 1, 2020
Registration Opens
Registration for satRday Chicago opens.
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May 8, 2020
Speakers Notified
Those who submitted a proposal will be notified if their talk has been accepted.
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May 30, 2020
Online satRday Chicago 2020!
We look forward to seeing you at Chicago’s second satRdays conference!
Team
The people putting it together
Bryan Berend
Democracy Works
Brandon Allen
The University of Chicago
Organizer of the University of Chicago Staff R User Group
Rob Glazier
IQVIA
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 at the discretion of the conference organisers. Our code of conduct/anti-harassment policy can be found here.