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(This article was first published on <strong><a href="http://blog.jumpingrivers.com/posts/2017/conference_cost_2017/"> R on The Jumping Rivers Blog</a></strong>, and kindly contributed to <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.r-bloggers.com/">R-bloggers)</a> </div>
<p>In last weeks <a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.jumpingrivers.com/posts/2017/conference_cost_2017/posts/2017/upcoming_r_conference_2017/" target="_blank">post</a> we tantalised you with upcoming R &amp; data science conferences, but from a cost point view, not all R conferences are the same. Using the R <a rel="nofollow" href="https://jumpingrivers.github.io/meetingsR/" target="_blank">conference</a> site, it’s fairly easy to compare the cost of previous R conferences.</p>
<p>I selected the main conferences over the last few years and obtained the cost for the full ticket (including any tutorial days, but ignoring any discounts). Next, I converted all prices to dollars and calculated the cost per day.</p>
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<th align="left">Conference</th>
<th align="right">Cost ($)</th>
<th align="right">#Days</th>
<th align="right">$ per day</th>
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</thead>
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<td align="left">eRum 2016</td>
<td align="right">30</td>
<td align="right">3</td>
<td align="right">10</td>
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<td align="left">SatRday 2017</td>
<td align="right">82</td>
<td align="right">3</td>
<td align="right">27</td>
</tr>
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<td align="left">useR! 2017</td>
<td align="right">770</td>
<td align="right">4</td>
<td align="right">192</td>
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<td align="left">R Finance 2017</td>
<td align="right">600</td>
<td align="right">2</td>
<td align="right">300</td>
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<td align="left">rstudio::conf 2018</td>
<td align="right">995</td>
<td align="right">3</td>
<td align="right">331</td>
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<td align="left">New York R</td>
<td align="right">725</td>
<td align="right">2</td>
<td align="right">362</td>
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<td align="left">Earl London</td>
<td align="right">1191</td>
<td align="right">3</td>
<td align="right">397</td>
</tr>
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<p>The conferences fall into two camps <em>business oriented</em> and more <em>general</em> R conferences; useR! is somewhere in the middle. A simple bar plot highlights the extreme difference in cost per day</p>
<p><img width="450" src="http://blog.jumpingrivers.com/posts/2017/2017-17-12-conference_cost_files/figure-html/conf-cost-1.svg"></p>
<p>I think the organisers of <a rel="nofollow" href="http://erum.ue.poznan.pl/" target="_blank">eRum</a> and <a rel="nofollow" href="http://satrdays.org/capetown2017/" target="_blank">SatRdays</a> should be proud of themselves for keeping the cost down; it would also be really useful if the organisers wrote a blog post giving more general tips for keeping the cost down.</p>
<p>I’m going to resist commenting on the conferences since I have only ever attended useR! (which is excellent), but in terms of speakers, most conferences have the same keynotes, so this year I’ll be looking at <a rel="nofollow" href="http://2018.erum.io/" target="_blank">eRum</a> 2018 (sadly useR! is a bit too far away from me).</p>
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