News
Wednesday, August 25, 2010
Mango Solutions organise the first NewJerseyR meeting
NewJerseyR will be a free informal event, held quarterly and intended to serve as a platform for all local (and regional) R users to present and exchange their experiences and ideas around the usage of R. A typical meeting will consist of 3-4 talks of about 20-25 min to give plenty of room for sharing your R experiences, discussions and exchange of ideas.
For further information, please contact newjerseyr@mango-solutions.com
Friday, August 13, 2010
MSToolkit: An R Library for Clinical Trial Simulation
Mango are pleased to announce the release of MSToolkit, an R library that facilities the simulation of clinical trials. Funded by Pfizer Inc, and co-developed by Mango Solutions and Pfizer, MSToolkit is covered by the GNU Public License (GPL). MSToolkit provides a range of capabilities for the simulation and analysis of clinical trial data, including the ability to simulate and evaluate adaptive trial designs. For more information, see the MSToolkit home page at http://mstoolkit.r-forge.r-project.org/
Tuesday, June 22, 2010
Mango announces 3 new consultants to the UK team
Danfeng Wang joins us from Oxford University, Econometrician Alexander Patt comes from Russia via university in Germany and Exeter and Maths & Statistics graduate, Samantha Humphreys, joins us for a six month internship before starting her MSc at Bath University.
Hadley Wickham is coming to London! 1st – 2nd November 2010
Data Visualisation in R: Harnessing the power of ggplot2
to produce elegant data graphics
Mango Solutions is delighted to offer a one-off 2 day training course with Dr. Hadley Wickham, R Project Data Visualisation Guru and creator of ggplot 2. The course is a must for any R user looking to improve their data visualisation skills. Suitable for any level of R experience, it will especially benefit those who know how to get data in and out of R and who can do some basic modelling.
Places will be limited on what will be a very popular course.
For more information please contact training@mango-solutions.com
Mango Solutions sponsors Meielisalp 2010
Mango Solutions is sponsoring Meielisalp 2010 the 1st R/Rmetrics Summer School and 4th User/Developer Meeting on Computational Finance and Financial Engineering. This takes place in Meielisalp, Lake Thune, Switzerland from June 27th – July 1st. For more information see www.rmetrics.org
Mango sponsor the R User Conference
We are pleased to be sponsoring the R User Conference, useR! 2010 to be held in Maryland, USA from the 21-23 July. We are providing t-shirts for all participants with a competition for the best design. For more information on useR! please go to www.user2010.org. T-Shirt designs should be made using a single colour of your choice. The design should be in the form of a high-resolution (at least 300 dpi) jpeg, png or gif file, and will be printed on a 13'' x 13'' area on the (white) shirt. There are no rules for the content. The winning design will receive 5 free t-shirts plus a book token. You don’t need to be registered for the conference to enter. Entries should be submitted to useRT-Shirt@mango-solutions.com by Sunday June 6th. The winning designer will be notified by June 15th.
Mango hosts their inaugural BaselR event
Mango Solutions AG Switzerland hosted their inaugural BaselR meeting on April 28th. This was an extremely well attended event and we are grateful to speakers, Andreas Krause, Yann Abraham and Charles Roosen for their presentations. All information about the event and future BaselR meetings can be found here
If you would like to join the BaselR mailing list for information on future BaselR events please email baselr@mango-solutions.com
Mango open worldwide offices
Mango Solutions now has offices in Basel, Switzerland and Shanghai, China. Our Swiss office is run by Charles Roosen and Tillman Krahnke and our Shanghai office by Fan Shao.