Why R? Webinar 027 JuliaR: combining Julia andR

# Stream URL

- https://youtu.be/B8COgzAVNmU

# Talk

- JuliaR: combining Julia and R utilities and workflows to solve problems

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- format: 45 min talk + 15 min for Q&A

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# Speaker

Paulito Palmes https://www.linkedin.com/in/paulitopalmes

Paulito Palmes is a research scientist in IBM Research Europe. He has a PhD in computer science, a Master’s degree in AI and an undergraduate in Applied Math. His research interests cover applications in the following areas: biomedical engineering, IOT, evolutionary computing, context-aware computing, AutoML, RL, datamining, and optimization.

# Talk description

## JuliaR: combining Julia and R utilities and workflows to solve problems

Julia's main design is for HPC (high-performance computing) while R’s original design is meant for statistical computing. With huge amount of data becoming a norm nowadays, having both features are ideal to attack problems related to data science and machine learning. This talk will demonstrate how Julia and R features and packages can be used as complementary utilities to solve real problems. The approach adapts the unix pipeline workflow of solving problems by stitching together a set of small utilities from JuliaR that when combined in a certain way becomes an optimal solution to the problem. These small utilities if properly designed encourages reusability, seamless integration of Julia and R utils, and easy explainability of the entire workflow.