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<p>The <em>uRos2018</em> conference is aimed at professionals and academics who are involved in producing or consuming official (government) statistics.</p>
<p>We are happy to announce that we recently posted the full <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.aanmelder.nl/uros2018/wiki/344887/programme" target="_blank">program</a> of the 6th international conference on the use of R in official Statistics (uRos2018) on our website.</p>
<h3>In summary:</h3>
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<li><strong>Six tutorials</strong> in the areas of
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<li>Data Cleaning</li>
<li>Network Analyses</li>
<li>Survey Estimation</li>
<li>Data manipulation with <code>data.table</code></li>
<li>Analyzing spatial data</li>
<li>Visualizing spatial data.</li>
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<li><strong>Two keynote speakers</strong>:
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<li>Alina Matei, professor of statistics at the University of Neuchatel and maintainer of the <a rel="nofollow" href="https://cran.r-project.org/package=sampling" target="_blank">sampling</a> package.</li>
<li>Jeroen Ooms, R superprogrammer and maintainer of R and Rtools for Windows (UC Berkeley)</li>
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<li><strong>Eleven sessions with contributed talks</strong> with <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.aanmelder.nl/uros2018/wiki/353667/sessions" target="_blank">five presentations</a> from<br>
<a rel="nofollow" href="https://twitter.com/uRos2018/status/1023834421621911552" target="_blank">all over the world</a>.</li>
<li><strong>One session</strong> devoted to the results of a two-day <strong><a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.aanmelder.nl/uros2018/wiki/321952/unconfuros-hackathon" target="_blank">unconf</a></strong> that is held prior to the conference.</li>
<li><strong>One social dinner</strong> <img alt="🙂" src="https://i1.wp.com/s.w.org/images/core/emoji/11/72x72/1f642.png?w=456&ssl=1" class="wp-smiley" data-recalc-dims="1"></li>
<li><strong>Two journals</strong> will devote a special topic to the conference.</li>
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<p>All the abstracts will be published online soon.</p>
<h3>Registration is still open</h3>
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<li>You are welcome to <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.aanmelder.nl/uros2018/subscribe" target="_blank">register</a></li>
<li>Follow us on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://twitter.com/uRos2018" target="_blank">twitter</a> for the latest news and updates!</li>
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