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(This article was first published on <strong><a href="https://www.r-statistics.com/2018/04/registration-for-erum-2018-closes-in-two-days/"> R – R-statistics blog</a></strong>, and kindly contributed to <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.r-bloggers.com/">R-bloggers)</a> </div>
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<h3>Why I’m going to eRum this year instead of useR!</h3>
<p><img data-orig-file="https://i0.wp.com/www.r-statistics.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/20180420_151342.jpg?fit=659%2C879&amp;ssl=1" data-orig-size="659,879" data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/www.r-statistics.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/20180420_151342.jpg?fit=225%2C300&amp;ssl=1" data-attachment-id="61505" data-image-meta="{" data-image-description="" src="https://i0.wp.com/www.r-statistics.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/20180420_151342.jpg?resize=225%2C300" data-permalink="https://www.r-statistics.com/2018/04/registration-for-erum-2018-closes-in-two-days/20180420_151342/" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/www.r-statistics.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/20180420_151342.jpg?fit=659%2C879&amp;ssl=1" alt="" data-image-title="Maya and Tal NOT going to useR this year" sizes="(max-width: 225px) 85vw, 225px" width="225" data-comments-opened="1" class="wp-image-61505" data-recalc-dims="1" height="300">I have attended the <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.r-project.org/conferences.html" target="_blank">useR! conferences</a> every year now for the past 9 years, and loved it! However, this year I’m saddened that I won’t be able to go. This is because this year the conference <a rel="nofollow" href="https://user2018.r-project.org/" target="_blank">will be held in Australia</a>, and going there would require me to be away from home for at least 8 days (my heart goes to the people of Australia who had a hard time coming to useR all these years). Ordinarily I would do it, but given that my wife and I have a sweet 8 months year old baby (called Maya), I’m very reluctant to be away from home for that long.</p>
<h3>The eRum 2018 conference</h3>
<p>Fortunately for me, and for many other R users out there, we have a backup plan called <a rel="nofollow" href="https://2018.erum.io/" target="_blank">eRum</a> (a.k.a: The European R Users Meeting). It is an international conference, similar to <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.r-project.org/conferences.html" target="_blank">useR!</a>, that occurs every two years (specifically, in the years in which useR is taking place outside of Europe), and organized by<a rel="nofollow" href="https://github.com/daroczig" target="_blank"> Gergely Daroczi</a> and others.</p>
<p>About the plan for this year:</p>
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<li><span><strong>Time and location</strong></span>: the conference will take place on <span data-term="goog_2043092449" tabindex="0"><span>May 14-16, 2018</span></span> @ <a rel="nofollow" href="https://2018.erum.io/#venue" target="_blank">Budapest, Hungary</a></li>
<li><span><strong>Crowd size</strong></span>: The expectation is for ~500 R users from mostly Europe (you can see a visual breakdown of people’s <a rel="nofollow" href="https://appsilondatascience.com/blog/rstats/2018/03/30/sankey-erum.html" target="_blank">country of origin here</a>)</li>
<li><span><strong>Content</strong></span>: The program has <a rel="nofollow" href="https://2018.erum.io/#keynotes" target="_blank">5 keynote speakers</a>, <a rel="nofollow" href="https://2018.erum.io/#invited-speakers" target="_blank">12 invited speakers</a>, <a rel="nofollow" href="https://2018.erum.io/#workshop-tutors" target="_blank">7 tracks of workshops</a> and <a rel="nofollow" href="https://2018.erum.io/#schedule" target="_blank">2 tracks for contributed talks</a> (picked after sifting over 150 abstracts). Knowing some of the people in the program, I can vouch for the high quality of the program.</li>
<li><span><strong>The registration closes </strong></span><span data-term="goog_2043092450" tabindex="0"><span><span><strong>this Sunday, so <a rel="nofollow" href="https://2018.erum.io/#registration" target="_blank">hurry up and register</a></strong></span>! (the price is relatively cheap, starting from 80 Euro for students, and up to 275 Euro for industry).</span></span></li>
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<p>If you get to see me around, feel free to come and say Hi <img alt="🙂" src="https://i1.wp.com/s.w.org/images/core/emoji/2.4/72x72/1f642.png?w=456&ssl=1" class="wp-smiley" data-recalc-dims="1"></p>
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