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(This article was first published on <strong><a href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/07/r-in-minecraft-lightning.html"> Revolutions</a></strong>, and kindly contributed to <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.r-bloggers.com/">R-bloggers)</a> </div>
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<p>My lightning talk at the useR!2017 conference was <a rel="nofollow" href="https://user2017.sched.com/event/AxrU/r-in-minecraft?iframe=no&w=&sidebar=yes&bg=no" target="_blank">R in Minecraft</a>: a five-minute tour of the <a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/06/teach-kids-about-r-with-minecraft.html" target="_blank">miner and craft packages and associated book</a> designed to teach kids how to use the R language while manipulating the world of Minecraft. You can see my talk below (starting at the 10:40 mark), and the slides (mostly created in Minecraft) are <a rel="nofollow" href="https://schd.ws/hosted_files/user2017/f0/business_machine_learning_545.pdf" target="_blank">available for download</a> as well.</p>
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<p>Check the rest of that video for some other interesting lighting talks from that session:</p>
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<li>[00:00] Christian Thiele: <a rel="nofollow" href="https://user2017.sched.com/event/Axrt/the-cutpointr-package-improved-and-tidy-estimation-of-optimal-cutpoints?iframe=no&w=&sidebar=yes&bg=no" target="_blank">The cutpointr package: Improved and tidy estimation of optimal cutpoints</a></li>
<li>[05:20] Edwin Thoen: <a rel="nofollow" href="https://user2017.sched.com/event/AxrN/preparing-datetime-data-with-padr?iframe=no&w=&sidebar=yes&bg=no" target="_blank">Preparing Datetime Data with Padr</a></li>
<li>[10:40] David Smith: <span><a rel="nofollow" href="https://user2017.sched.com/event/AxrU/r-in-minecraft?iframe=yes&w=&sidebar=yes&bg=no" target="_blank">R in Minecraft</a></span></li>
<li>[16:00] Munshi Imran Hossain: <a rel="nofollow" href="https://user2017.sched.com/event/Axrs/digital-signal-processing-with-r?iframe=no&w=&sidebar=yes&bg=no" target="_blank">Digital Signal Processing with R</a></li>
<li>[21:20] Lars Rönnegård: <a rel="nofollow" href="https://user2017.sched.com/event/Axrr/data-analysis-using-hierarchical-generalized-linear-models-with-r?iframe=no&w=&sidebar=yes&bg=no" target="_blank">Data Analysis Using Hierarchical Generalized Linear Models with R</a></li>
<li>[26:40] Florian Privé: <span><a rel="nofollow" href="https://user2017.sched.com/event/Axrw/the-r-package-bigstatsr-memory-and-computation-efficient-statistical-tools-for-big-matrices?iframe=no&w=&sidebar=yes&bg=no#" target="_blank">The R package bigstatsr: Memory- and Computation-Efficient Statistical Tools for Big Matrices</a></span></li>
<li><span><span>[32:00] Malte Grosser: <a rel="nofollow" href="https://user2017.sched.com/event/Axr1/advanced-r-solutions-a-bookdown-project?iframe=no&w=&sidebar=yes&bg=no#" target="_blank">Advanced R Solutions — A Bookdown Project</a></span></span></li>
<li><span><span><span>[37:20] Eugene Ha: <a rel="nofollow" href="https://user2017.sched.com/event/Axro/functional-input-validation-with-valaddin?iframe=no&w=&sidebar=yes&bg=no#" target="_blank">Functional Input Validation with valaddin</a></span></span></span></li>
<li><span><span><span><span>[42:40] Florian Schwendinger: <a rel="nofollow" href="https://user2017.sched.com/event/Axru/roi-r-optimization-infrastructure?iframe=no&w=&sidebar=yes&bg=no#" target="_blank">ROI – R Optimization Infrastructure</a></span></span></span></span></li>
<li><span><span><span><span>[48:00] Bart Smeets: <a rel="nofollow" href="https://user2017.sched.com/event/Axs0/simmer-discrete-event-simulation-for-r?iframe=no&w=&sidebar=yes&bg=no" target="_blank">simmer: Discrete-Event Simulation for R</a> (very interesting if you want to simulate interconnected queues, inventories, or things like that)<br></span></span></span></span></li>
<li><span><span><span><span><span>[53:20] Edwin de Jonge: <a rel="nofollow" href="https://user2017.sched.com/event/Axs6/data-error-but-where?iframe=no&w=&sidebar=yes&bg=no#" target="_blank">Data Error! But where?</a></span></span></span></span></span></li>
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