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(This article was first published on <strong><a href="http://www.win-vector.com/blog/2017/10/some-announcements/"> R – Win-Vector Blog</a></strong>, and kindly contributed to <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.r-bloggers.com/">R-bloggers)</a> </div>
<p>Some Announcements:</p>
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<li>Dr. Nina Zumel will be presenting “Myths of Data Science: Things you Should and Should Not Believe”,<br>
Sunday, October 29, 2017<br>
10:00 AM to 12:30 PM at the <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.meetup.com/SheTalksData/events/244295182/" target="_blank">She Talks Data Meetup (Bay Area)</a>.</li>
<li><a rel="nofollow" href="https://odsc.com/california" target="_blank">ODSC West 2017</a> is soon. It is our favorite conference and we will be giving both a workshop and a talk.
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<p>Thursday Nov 2 2017,<br>
2:00 PM,<br>
Room T2,<br>
“Modeling big data with R, Sparklyr, and Apache Spark”,<br>
Workshop/Training intermediate, 4 hours,<br>
by Dr. John Mount (<a rel="nofollow" href="https://odsc.com/training/portfolio/succeeding-big-data-real-world" target="_blank">link</a>).</p>
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<p>Friday Nov 0 2017,<br>
4:15 PM,<br>
Room TR2<br>
“Myths of Data Science: Things you Should and Should Not Believe”,<br>
Data Science lecture beginner/intermediate, 45 minutes,<br>
by Dr. Nina Zumel (<a rel="nofollow" href="https://odsc.com/training/portfolio/myths-data-science-practical-issues-can-can-not-ignore-2" target="_blank">link</a>, length, abstract, and title to be corrected).
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<p>We really hope you can make these talks.
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<li>On the “<a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.r-project.org/" target="_blank">R</a> for big data” front we have some big news: the <a rel="nofollow" href="https://winvector.github.io/replyr/" target="_blank">replyr</a> package now implements pivot/un-pivot (or what tidyr calls spread/gather) for big data (databases and <a rel="nofollow" href="https://cran.r-project.org/package=sparklyr" target="_blank">Sparklyr</a>). This data shaping ability adds a lot of user power. We call the theory <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.win-vector.com/blog/2017/03/coordinatized-data-a-fluid-data-specification/" target="_blank">“coordinatized data”</a> and the work practice <a rel="nofollow" href="https://winvector.github.io/replyr/articles/FluidData.html" target="_blank">“fluid data”</a>. </li>
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