SatRdays London 2023: Thanks for coming!

SatRdays returned to London last month, with a day packed full of talks from expert speakers across a variety of sectors! We’d like to take this opportunity to say a huge thank you to everybody involved in making the day a success!

Speakers

Huge thanks to all of our speakers for your contributions for the day. It was great to see such a varied line up of talks, covering everything from Sidekicks of the Tidyverse, to Sustainability and EDI in the R Project, with much more in between. We’ll be adding any available talk materials to the SatRdays website in the coming days.

Keynotes

• Julia Silge (Posit): What is “production” anyway? MLOps for the curious
• Oli Hawkins (Financial Times): Why R is good for journalism

Contributed talks

• Michael Stevens & Botan Ağın (SamKnows): AutRmatic reporting: billions of internet measurements, hundreds of reports and one repository to rule them all
• Russ Hyde (Jumping Rivers): Does code quality even matter in data science?
• Ella Kaye & Heather Turner (University of Warwick): Sustainability and EDI (Equality, Diversity and Inclusion) in the R Project
• Andrew Collier (presenter) & Bianca Peterson (Fathom Data): Sidekicks of the Tidyverse
• Jack Davison (Ricardo Energy & Environment): “Put it on a map!” – Developments in Air Quality Data Analysis
• Vyara Apostolova & Laura Cole (National Audit Office): ScRutinising government spending

Sponsors

Thanks again to our sponsors for supporting the day in various ways!

CUSP London

The Centre for Urban Science and Progress (CUSP) London provided our incredible venue, Bush House London, as well as all of the AV support and catering throughout the day.

Based in London, UK, their mission is to support interdisciplinary research and innovation using Data Science in and for London.

Jumping Rivers

If you’re here, you probably already know who we are, but just in case - We’re Jumping Rivers and we were the event organisers for SatRdays 2023.

Jumping Rivers is an analytics company whose passion is data and machine learning. We help our clients move from data storage to data insights.

Posit

Posit supported the conference in many ways, including sending us our keynote speaker, Julia Silge, all the way over from the US!

Posit aim to create open-source software for data science, scientific research, and technical communication, to enhance the production and consumption of knowledge by everyone, regardless of economic means.

R Consortium

The R consortium are the organisation behind SatRdays as a worldwide event.

The central mission of the R Consortium is to work with and provide support to the R Foundation and to the key organizations developing, maintaining, distributing and using R software through the identification, development and implementation of infrastructure projects.

You

Of course, a conference would not work with nobody there to see it, so thank you to all of our attendees, both in-person and virtual! We hope that you enjoyed the day as much as we did, and that you got a chance to network and learn and maybe share a bit of your own knowledge too!

What’s next?

SatRdays recordings

Keep an eye out here and on our social media, as we’ll be sharing the recordings of some of the talks, so if you missed out on the day, you don’t have to miss out completely!

Shiny in Production confererence

We also have our Shiny in Production conference coming up later this year! This conference takes a look at shiny and other web based R packages, and includes an afternoon of workshops as well as a day of talks from subject experts. Take a look at the conference website to find out what we have lined up so far, and keep an eye out on our social media for further announcements.