Open the World with Open Source

Workshop Organised by the Monash Business Analytics Team (WOMBAT)

October 22-23, Melbourne, Vic


About

The purpose of this workshop is to bring together analysts from academia, industry and government to learn and discuss new open source tools for business analytics and data science. The focus this year is on developments in open source, that underlies much of the analytics conducted today, which helps to make the world around us more understandable. You should come if you are an analytics professional, or leading a team of analysts or a developer of new open source tools.

Attendance will be limited to 20 participants (in-person and online) for each of the 8 tutorials on day 1, and 100 participants (in-person only) for day 2's workshop. The first 40 workshop registrations will come with a specially designed WOMBAT mug. We will also have a rich collection of hex stickers available for all to choose from to decorate your laptop!

Register for one or two tutorials here and the workshop here.

Keynote

Michael Lawrence
Director of Data Science and Statistical Computing at Genentech
Topic: S7: A New Object-oriented System for R

Michael Lawrence is a member of R Core and R Foundation, contributor to BioConductor, member of the forwards taskforce. He is a leader, scientist, engineer and open-source contributor dedicated to finding new ways to derive insights from data. At Genentech, he is helping define the vision and strategy for how to revolutionize drug discovery through advanced computation and leveraging data at scale.

Programme

Days 0 and 2 are in-person only! Day 1 tutorials will be hybrid, although we encourage in-person attendance.

Tue, Oct 22