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- 1. Richard Pugh, Managing Director rpugh@mango-solutions.com Introduction to Mango Solutions
- 2. Richard Pugh, Managing Director rpugh@mango-solutions.com Who are Mango? • Provide data science and analytic implementation services • Premier providers of R Services in the world today • Private company founded in 2002 • Offices in UK & China • Global Team of ~50 • ISO 9001 Accredited
- 3. Richard Pugh, Managing Director rpugh@mango-solutions.com Mango Team Data Science Software Development IT
- 4. Richard Pugh, Managing Director rpugh@mango-solutions.com Mango Team Data Science Software Development ITProject Management Business Analysis Software Testing Quality Management
- 5. Richard Pugh, Managing Director rpugh@mango-solutions.com Mango Team Data Science Software Development IT Project Management Business Analysis Software Testing Quality Management Analytics Infrastructure Delivery
- 6. Richard Pugh, Managing Director rpugh@mango-solutions.com Mango Services Analytics Infrastructure Delivery Advice on applying the right analytics Modelling and Analytic Code Generation Training and Consulting on modern analytic tools
- 7. Richard Pugh, Managing Director rpugh@mango-solutions.com Mango Services Analytics Infrastructure Delivery Installation, Setup, Support and Maintenance Validation of Open Source Software Scaling of Execution (Cloud, Grid)
- 8. Richard Pugh, Managing Director rpugh@mango-solutions.com Mango Services Analytics Infrastructure Delivery Creation of Bespoke Applications Integration into legacy systems Provision of common libraries
- 9. Richard Pugh, Managing Director rpugh@mango-solutions.com Mango Services Analytics Infrastructure Delivery Creation of scalable analytic decision applications Implementation of appropriate analytic tools Creation of full analytic ecosystem Analytics Infrastructure
- 10. Richard Pugh, Managing Director rpugh@mango-solutions.com Mango Products
- 11. Richard Pugh, Managing Director rpugh@mango-solutions.com Selection of Customers
- 12. Richard Pugh, Managing Director rpugh@mango-solutions.com Mango Team
- 13. Richard Pugh, Managing Director rpugh@mango-solutions.com Mango Services and Products Data Science How can analytics meet your business challenges?
- 14. Richard Pugh, Managing Director rpugh@mango-solutions.com Data Science • Mango has been involved in business analytics since our inception • Our Data Science team bring together: – Analytic Knowledge – Technical Skill – Business Empathy – IT Awareness • This allows us to advise on analytic appropriateness
- 15. Richard Pugh, Managing Director rpugh@mango-solutions.com Who is a good driver? Will someone like this? What bonus should I pay? When might this break? How do we win more games? What are they likely to want? Who will pay their mortgage? What is the “true” forecast?
- 16. Richard Pugh, Managing Director rpugh@mango-solutions.com Data Science • Mango are able to: – Understand business challenges – Create good analytic questions – Prototype analytics in an agile manner – Productionize the analytics – Provide appropriate interfaces to the analytics – Deploy and support
- 17. Richard Pugh, Managing Director rpugh@mango-solutions.com Mango Services and Products Industrialising Analytics How do we put the right analytics in the hands of decision makers?
- 18. Richard Pugh, Managing Director rpugh@mango-solutions.com Traditional Analytics • Analyst receives request from consumer • Analyst performs the analysis and produces report • Consumer receives the report and asks more questions
- 19. Richard Pugh, Managing Director rpugh@mango-solutions.com Challenges of Traditional Analytics • Reliance on analytic specialists • Not scalable with growing data and analytic demands – Data increase – New data sources and analytics – More strategic use of analytics
- 20. Richard Pugh, Managing Director rpugh@mango-solutions.com Industrialising Analytics • Carefully designed analytics can be exposed at services via appropriate interfaces • Often includes integration with: – Data sources – Reporting – Audit and Provenance – Decision log • Interfaces include web, desktop and existing BI tools
- 21. Richard Pugh, Managing Director rpugh@mango-solutions.com Industrialised Analytic Examples
- 22. Richard Pugh, Managing Director rpugh@mango-solutions.com Mango Services and Products Modern Analytic Tools How can modern analytic tools be exploited to add value to the analytics process?
- 23. Richard Pugh, Managing Director rpugh@mango-solutions.com • Large and evolving set of analytic technologies and approaches – Deep Analytics – Data Science Tools – Statistical Tools – Big Data Analytics – Predictive Models – Optimisation • Difficult to identify, trial and implement key tools Modern Analytic Tools
- 24. Richard Pugh, Managing Director rpugh@mango-solutions.com The Big Data Landscape
- 25. Richard Pugh, Managing Director rpugh@mango-solutions.com Mango Analytic Skills
- 26. Richard Pugh, Managing Director rpugh@mango-solutions.com Mango Product Team • Key innovation remit • Technical proof of concepts • Cross-industry successes • Advice on appropriate analytic tools and approaches
- 27. Richard Pugh, Managing Director rpugh@mango-solutions.com The R Language • The most widely used analytic language • 9th most popular computing language • The basis for analytic study • Free and Open Source • Integrated with analytic advances • Right place, right time
- 28. Richard Pugh, Managing Director rpugh@mango-solutions.com The Growth of R
- 29. Richard Pugh, Managing Director rpugh@mango-solutions.com Who Uses R?
- 30. Richard Pugh, Managing Director rpugh@mango-solutions.com Data, Analytic, Graphics Predicted Sales Volumes by SKU and Retailer Date LogPredictedSales
- 31. Richard Pugh, Managing Director rpugh@mango-solutions.com Mango Services and Products Analytic Platforms How can we create an effective analytics ecosystem?
- 32. Richard Pugh, Managing Director rpugh@mango-solutions.com An Analytics “Ecosystem” • Centralisation of analytic IP • Analytic output provenance • Deployment to decision portals • Collaborate on analytic projects
- 33. Richard Pugh, Managing Director rpugh@mango-solutions.com An Analytics “Workbench”
- 34. Richard Pugh, Managing Director rpugh@mango-solutions.com Mango’s Analytics Workbench • Supports analytic activities • Originally developed for life sciences • Further developed for other industries • Infrastructure and interfaces for modern analytics
- 35. Richard Pugh, Managing Director rpugh@mango-solutions.com • Analytic Knowledge Management System • Backed by SubVersion • Security, audit and provenance • Supports 2 primary scenarios: – “A place to start, a place to end” – Day-to-day working • Ongoing development at Mango
- 36. Richard Pugh, Managing Director rpugh@mango-solutions.com • Sophisticated model-development platform • A place to: – Manage your project – Develop, execute and monitor models and scripts in third party tools (SAS, R, Matlab) – Evaluate and compare models – Produce PDF/Word reports
- 37. Richard Pugh, Managing Director rpugh@mango-solutions.com • More statistically-focused interface to existing functionality • Find, repurpose, execute scripts • Interactive data exploration • Development underway with partners
- 38. Richard Pugh, Managing Director rpugh@mango-solutions.com • Driven by early projects and “data driven decision application” requirements • Putting analytics in the hands of decision makers – Interactivity for the end user – Rigour and provenance “under the hood” – “Built” by Stats Workbench users • Currently using RStudio’s “Shiny” for prototyping and requirements gathering
- 39. Richard Pugh, Managing Director rpugh@mango-solutions.com DesktopCheck In / Check Out (Lock / Unlock) Knowledge Management Model Development Image Validation & Mgment Data Driven Decisions Statistical Analysis Server Grid Cloud
- 40. Richard Pugh, Managing Director rpugh@mango-solutions.com Summary • Experts in designing, implementing and deploying the right analytic capabilities • Significant experience with R • Products for creating and efficient analytics ecosystem