Founded in 2014, the Zurich R User group is one of the largest R user groups in Europe. Join our meetup events and become part of a lively analytics community. Thanks to our speakers, hosts, and sponsors, our events are completely free.
From logistics to climate research, and from data journalism to real estate, visit our events in the Zurich greater area to learn about a wide range of applications.
Our events are hosted by a large variety of institutions that work with data. From academia, to the public and private sectors.
Learn how others use and integrate R, from creating new packages to implementations and trends.
Our events are designed with plenty of time to network and exchange. From in-depth technical discussions to job market postings.
Made a great report with Quarto? Built a Shiny App? Wrote a paper and looking for feedback? Completed an integration journey? Wrote a new R package?
| Topic | Host | Speakers | Slides |
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| January 23: Ecological infrastructure planning | Swiss Federal Institute for Forest Snow and Landscape Research WSL | Dominique Weber | Download |
| January 23: FORTE app: online tools for forests today and tomorrow | Swiss Federal Institute for Forest Snow and Landscape Research WSL | Micah Wilhelm | Not available |
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| September 19: R for Real Estate and Machine Learning Model Summaries | Wüest Partner AG | Simon Stehle | Not available |
| September 19: Concise, Comprehensive, and Customizable Summaries for Machine Learning Models | University of Zurich | Susanne Dandl | Not available |
| June 04: Antibiotic packages and guideline recommendations. A real-world analysis based on claims data. | Helsana Insurance Group | Sereina M. Graber | Download |
| June 04: Changes in the use of hydrochlorothiazide and other antihypertensive drugs in Switzerland in association with the Swissmedic safety alert regarding skin cancer: An interrupted-time series analysis using Swiss claims data. | University of Basel | Tamino Zappalà | Download |
| April 08: Linking Register Data: Navigating Opportunities and Limitations | Statistical Office, Canton of Zurich | Irene Böckmann | Not available |
| April 08: Implementation of a national project and challenges of coordinating a multi-center, multi language project | Clinical Trial Unit, Kantonsspital St. Gallen | Erin West | Not available |
| Topic | Host | Speakers | Slides |
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| November 2: Unveiling Market Insights with Real Estate | Datahouse | Andreas Thürlimann | Download |
| November 2: Interpretable machine learning: applications in public health | University of Zurich | Andrea Farnham | Download |
| September 11: duckplyr: Tight Integration of duckdb with R and the tidyverse | cynkra | Kirill Müller | Not available |
| September 11: The best bottle is just one (or two) GAMMs away | Zürich Data Scientists | Luisa Barbanti, Matteo Tanadini | Not available |
| Topic | Host | Speakers | Slides |
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| July 05: Detecting and analysing space-time correlations with ARCOS | University of Berne | Maciej Dobrzyński | Not available |
| July 05: Exploring “The Grammar of Graphics” | Helbling Technik | Lynda Metref | Not available |
| April 27: Comprehensive audit of a Shiny app through CI/CD: toward production-readiness | RinteRface | David Granjon | Not available |
| April 27: Anomaly Detection on Vote Sundays with R & Shiny | Statistical Office of the Canton of Zurich | Thomas Lo Russo | Not available |
| Topic | Host | Speakers | Slides |
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| October 27: Developing the mlr/mlr3 machine learning framework in R | mlr-org | Patrick Schratz | Not available |
| October 27: varycoef: An R Package for Gaussian Process-based Spatially Varying Coefficient Models | Swiss Re | Jakob Dambon | Not available |
| Topic | Host | Speakers | Slides |
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| October 29: SPARQL with R | Statistisches Amt, Kanton Zürich | Katharina Kaelin | Download |
| January 29: From survival analysis to projecting disability payments | PartnerRe | Benjamin Abt, Simon Adamov | Download |
| January 29: Data Science at UPC | UPC | Felix Reisen | Not available |
| January 29: shinyMobile: mobile ready shiny apps | Novartis | David Granjon | Not available |
| Topic | Host | Speakers | Slides |
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| November 13: Predicting the departing runway of a flight based on a classification tree model | Zurich Airport | Benjamin Perucco | Download |
| November 13: NOTAM message classifier | Swiss International Air Lines | Joao Banha | Download |
| October 14: quanteda - Quantitative Analysis of Textual Data | UZH | Stefan Müller | Download |
| October 14: useR!2019 Toulouse : ZRH-PARIS-BORDEAUX-TOULOUSE | KOF/ETHZ | Matthias Bannert | Not available |
| September 16: Relational data models with the dm package | cynkra | Kirill Müller | Download |
| September 16: Tracking Real Estate Project Web Sites with R | Datahouse AG | Thomas Maier | Download |
| June 18: Use case of reinforcement-learning exemplified by Super Mario AI | STATWORX | Sebastian Heinz, Oliver Guggenbühl | Download |
| June 18: Analytical Data Management with R | CWI, University of Amsterdam (UvA) | Hannes Mühleisen | Download |
| May 22: Docker for R users | Helbling Technik AG | Lynda Metref | Download |
| May 22: Toward production-ready user interfaces with the R Shiny framework | UZH | David Granjon | Not available |
| April 03: Medical underwriting triage: An end-to-end machine learning case study | PartnerRe | Alexander Noll | Not available |
| April 03: Introducing chartbookR | SUVA | Kilian Reber | Download |
| February 19: On weapons and dialects: The initial hypothesis and the final story | NZZ | Marie-José Kolly | Download |
| February 19: Data driven journalism at Tamedia | Tamedia | Patrick Meier | Download |
| Topic | Host | Speakers | Slides |
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| December 5: What I find important when R Programming - and Recent Cool Features in R | ETH Zurich | Dr. Martin Mächler | Download |
| October 25: A Comparison of Covariate-based Prediction Methods for FIFA World Cups | TU Dortmund | Andreas Groll | Download |
| October 25: Predicting biathlon shooting performance using machine learning | Swiss Federal Institute of Sport Magglingen/datahouse | Thomas Maier | Download |
| September 3: blogdown: Creating Websites with R Markdown | Statistical Office, Canton of Zurich | Thomas Lo Russo | Download |
| September 3: DBI: Recent developments in R’s database interface | cynkra GmbH | Kirill Müller | Download |
| May 16: Micro location rating in real estate | Wüest Partner | Jacqueline Schweizer | Download |
| May 16: Speeding R up on your computer by parallelized computations - a geostatistical case study | Department of Environmental Systems Science, ETH Zurich / Statistik Stadt Zürich | Andreas Papritz | Download |
| March 21: Long Term Protection Model | Partner Re, BeDataDriven | Alexis Iglauer, Maarten-Jan Kallen, Dr. Urszula Gasser | Download |
| March 21: Social contact network analysis: static versus dynamic (time-stamped) approaches | University of Bern | Beatriz Vidondo | Not available |
| January 8: Big Data Analytics in R using sparklyr | Mirai-Solutions | Nicola Lambiase | Download |
| January 8: Anomaly detection – database integrated | Trivadis | Olaf Nimz | Download |
| Topic | Host | Speakers | Slides |
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| November 7: Read and process unstructured data with R | Statistical Office, Canton of Zurich | Max Grütter | Download |
| November 7: Mastering Corporate Design with R | Statistical Office, Canton of Zurich | Andrea Schnell, Thomas Lo Russo | Download |
| November 7: Illustration of pupils’ diversity with R | Zurich State Department of Education | Flavian Imlig | Not available |
| November 7: Making Public Data Public | Christoph Sax Data Analytics | Christoph Sax | Download |
| September 4: Open machine learning | Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Prevention Institute, UZH | Heidi Seibold | Download |
| September 4: Dynamic Pricing - Analyzing rapidly-changing prices | datahouse | Daniel Meister | Not available |
| September 4: R at Sanitas – Workflow, Problems and Solutions | Sanitas | Patrik Lengacher | Download |
| May 3: Visualizing the frequency of delays using QGIS and the Leaflet javascript library in R | N/A | Peter B. Pearman, Thomas Roth | Download |
| May 3: Modelling Bus Bunching | N/A | Andrea Farnham | Download |
| May 3: How we organized the Hackathon | N/A | Heidi Seibold | Not available |
| April 10: Slides and tutorial | ETHZ/datatools GmbH | Kirill Müller | Download |
| February 6: Introduction to Renjin, the alternative engine for R | BeDataDriven | Maarten-Jan Kallen | Download |
| February 6: R, y u do dis? | N/A | Christoph Molnar | Download |
| February 6: Scraping Interactive Graphs with Selenium | Swiss International Air Lines | Kushtrim Veseli | Download |
| Topic | Host | Speakers | Slides |
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| November 29: Make it simpleR! | UBS | Raymond Zychowicz | Not available |
| November 29: R in Finance: Using R in a productive and highly regulated environment | Mirai Solutions | Gabriel Foix | Download |
| November 29: R for Car Insurance Product | N/A | Claudio Giancaterino | Download |
| November 29: Using Shiny for worldwide climate monitoring | CelsiusPro | David Masson | Not available |
| September 29: Fast Prototyping in R - a brief Introduction to R Shiny | Zühlke | Nadja Ulrich | Download |
| September 29: Clean, code, analyze and visualize election data in R: An example from datajournalism | NZZ | Marie-José Kolly, Marvin Milatz | Download |
| August 4: Analyzing the Bührer family data set using an advanced mosaic plot. | ZHAW | Thomas Roth | Download |
| August 4: Mapping health during travel: a visualization of a trip through Thailand. | UZH | Andrea Farnham | Download |
| August 4: Interactive Javascript in R with rCharts | Centralway | Matteo Casserini | Download |
| August 4: Animation of political shifts in elections | SRF | Timo Grossenbacher | Download |
| August 4: An interactive map with R-Shiny and leaflet | Migros | Bojan Škerlak | Download |
| August 4: Federal election 2015 : visualizing the panachage-statistics | Statistical Office Zurich | Thomas Lo Russo | Not available |
| August 4: Crosstalk | eBay | Dimitris Psaradellis | Download |
| May 23: Microsoft R Server | Microsoft | Marc Schöni | Not available |
| May 23: Automated reports at OrganizationView | OrganizationView | Andrew Marritt | Download |
| March 16: Data journalism | SRF | Timo Grossenbacher | Download |
| March 16: Open Data Zurich | Open Data Zurich | Marco Sieber, Fidel Thomet | Download |
| January 21: Speeding up (big) data manipulation with the data.table package | Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Institute for Data Analysis and Process Design | Vasily Tolkachev | Download |
| January 21: DescTools - Tools for Descriptive Statistics and Exploratory Data Analysis | Helsana/HWZ | Andri Signorell | Download |