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Simon Urbanek University of Auckland + R Core
R in the AI Era: Leveraging Modern Technologies in Practice
R is popular in part due to its extensive package ecosystem, which allows for the incorporation of new technologies and statistical methods. The language has been designed explicitly to focus on data, making it easy for users to apply diverse tools and methods in the course of data analysis. Although R itself is more than two decades old, the combination of those two major elements enables it to adapt to tools and techniques quickly, benefitting both researchers and data analysts. In this talk we will illustrate using R on real examples with current technologies moving from Big Data era of distributed data analysis to the AI era of fitting and evaluating attention models and leveraging large language models for both analysis and retrieval.