Sql Saturday Lisbon 2017 Rui Quintino -R first steps for sql devs & dbas

First steps with R & RStudio
for SQL Developers & DBAs
Rui Quintino
Data Research @ DevScope

SQLSat Lisbon is brought you by:

Tuga IT 2017 (18-20 May, 2017)
http://www.tugait.pt/2017

Say Thank you to Volunteers:
 They spend their FREE time to give you this
event.
 Because they are crazy. 
 Because they want YOU
to learn from the BEST IN THE WORLD.

André Batista (The Guilty One):

Claudio Silva (Special Projects):

3 Sponsor Sessions at 15:20
 Don’t miss them, they might be getting
distributing some awesome prizes!
 Rumos
 Profisee
 CozyRoc

Important Activities:
WIT – Women in Technology
 10:15 at .NET Room
(Azure & Infrastructure Track)
Data Science Booth (near the sponsors)

About me…
Data R&D @DevScope
#MachineLearning #R
#Bots #Docker #Hadoop
#Python #PowerBI
#SqlServer #Azure
#Coaching #Learning
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“jack of all trades (and master of none)“
1. a person who can do many different types
of work but who is not necessarily very
competent at any of them…

Session Topics
 What’s R?
 Why R?
 R & RStudio First Steps
 Some Tips & R Gotchas
 How to Start?
Reminder: no machine learning, 100 level session!
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What is
• A statistics programming language & environment
• data visualization, machine learning, data science
• Free, Open Source, Cross Platform
• 2.5+M users
• Taught in most universities
• Thriving user groups worldwide
• 10.000+ free algorithms in CRAN
• Scalable to big data (needs some help though…)
• New and recent grad’s use it
Language
Platform
Community
Ecosystem
• Rich application & platform integration

R learning/value curve
http://blog.yhat.com/posts/R-for-excel-users.html

R Challenges…
 Learning curve, ROI needs time…
 Little bit chaotic (naming, packages)
 R Language “gotchas“
 R Limitations (open source version)
 Memory bound
 Single threaded
 Commercial Support
 Operationalization
 Solved/Improved: R Server, SQL 2016 R Services

Why R?
http://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/software/the-2016-top-programming-languages
2016
2015

http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/01/cran-10000.html

Free, Powerful & Flexible
 Much more than Stats or Machine Learning
 Also for one shot tasks, data pipelines
 Data Profiling, Data Quality
 Data Analysis & Visualization
 Task Automation
 Data Wrangling
 (pretty much anything…
yes…not being the best at everything!)

Let’s Start!
 R Language & R Studio IDE

Demo-R Language & R Studio IDE

Demo-Docker,R & R Studio IDE

Demo-Docker, R & Jupyter

R & R Studio-Get Started!

http://www.r-fiddle.org/

http://tryr.codeschool.com/

https://www.datacamp.com/courses/free-introduction-to-r

http://r4ds.had.co.nz/

 Great blogs to follow
David Smith, (ex:Revolution Analytics)
http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/ @revodavid
Steph Locke (Locke Data)
https://itsalocke.com/ @SteffLocke
Tomaž Kaštrun
https://tomaztsql.wordpress.com/ @tomaz_tsql

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 Thank you!

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