Pre-Conference Workshop - iCMS 2019

Speaker

Matthias Templ, PhD

Dr Matthias Templ is the owner of data analysis company OG. He obtained his PhD in Technical Mathematics from Vienna University of Technology and was an associate professor at the same university. Currently Dr Temple lectures at the Institute of Data Analysis and Process Design, Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland. He also holds a position as a consultant to the Palacký University Olomouc, Czech Republic. Dr Templ is a researcher at the Quality and Methods Unit at Statistics Austria. His other consultation works include for the World Bank and the OECD. His main research interest is in the area of imputation, statistical disclosure control, visualization, compositional data analysis, computational statistics, teaching in statistics and cluster analysis. He participated in many European research projects, to name one of those: the AMELI project for adequate estimation of poverty and social exclusion. Dr Templ has more than 280 scientific contributions in books, scientific journals and conferences as well as more than 40 papers in well-known indexed scientific journals. He is the author and maintainer of several R packages for official statistics, such as the sdcMicro package for statistical disclosure control, the VIM package for visualization and imputation of missing values, the simPop package for synthetic population simulation, and the robCompositions package for robust analysis of compositional data. He is also a co-author to many other packages. In addition, Dr. Matthias Templ is the editor-in-chief of the Austrian Journal of Statistics; associate editor for Springer’s Journal Wirtschafts-und Sozialstatistische Archiv; editor for the journal The Register; and on the editorial board of three other journals – JWARP journal, The Journal Transactions on Data Privacy, and the Journal Frontiers in Biomedical Physics

What is R?

• open source;
  
• powerful and comprehensive platform for visualizing data, understanding and evaluating statistical models;
  
• programming language and software environment for statistical computing and graphics;
  
• ready to use for applications in data science, data analytics and for big data sets;

Participants are expected to be able to use efficient R code and use R packages to perform data analytics after the workshop.

Who Should Attend?

• Lecturers,
  
• Researchers,
  
• Engineers,
  
• Students,
  
• Industry Professionals, and
  
• Scientists
  of any discipline who wish to explore R and Big Data.

Course Outline

We assume basic knowledge in R syntax which can be achieved, for example by doing the exercises of R package Swirl or taking a free course, e.g. on Data Camp in advance to this course. All topics are accompanied by practical exercises to be done by course participants themselves on their laptops.

First day (21st April, 2019):

Time	Topics
08.30 - 0900	Registration
09.00 - 10.30	R Studio
	Data Analysis with R, some basics and warm up
10.30 - 11.00	Coffee Break
11.00 - 13.00	Tidy data and data manipulation with dplyr
13.00 - 14.30	Lunch
14.30 - 16.30	The graphics package in R
16.30 - 17.00	Tea break & End of Session

Second day (22nd April, 2019):

Time	Topics
08.30 - 0900	Registration
09.00 - 10.30	Advanced data visualization with ggplot2
	Mapping, Maps with ggmap and leaflet
10.30 - 11.00	Coffee Break
11.00 - 13.00	Special graphics for special problems
13.00 - 14.30	Lunch
14.30 - 16.30	Overview on interactive visualisation tools
	Web applications with R shiny and markdown
16.30 - 17.00	Tea break & End of Session

Note: Tentative Schedule Time is subject to changes

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Registration

Registration for pre-conference workshop is now OPEN.
All interested participant can register through confBay by clicking the following
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Participants are advise to create a confBay account first if you don’t have one yet before you are allowed to log in and register.

Workshop Fee

Early Bird (Before 15 February 2019)	Regular Price (Before 31 March 2019)
Local Participant	Local Participant
Individual - MYR 980	Individual - MYR 1500
Group of 2 - MYR 890 (each)	Group of 2 - MYR 1200 (each)
Student - MYR 800	Student - MYR 1000
International Participant	International Participant
Individual - USD 250	Individual - USD 380
Group of 2 - USD 230 (each)	Group of 2 - USD 320 (each)
Student - USD 210	Student - USD 300

Mode of Payment

For Local Presenter / Participant / Student
Academic Institutional cheques/ Banker’s cheques/Inter Bank Giro (IBG)/Bank Transfer/Government Local Order (LO) (Personal cheques are not accepted). All cheques must be made payable to “Bendahari UiTM Kedah”.

For International Presenter / Participant / Student
Telegraphic Transfers/Electronic Transfers ONLY (including bank charges).

Item	Details
Bank Name	: Bank Islam Malaysia Bhd (Sungai Petani Branch)
Bank Address	: No.71&72 Lorong Lagenda 1, Lagenda Heights, 08000 Sungai Petani, Kedah, MALAYSIA
Bank Account Number	: 02020010021120
Bank Account Name	: UiTM Cawangan Kedah
Pay to	: Bendahari UiTM Kedah
Swift Code	: BIMBMYKL

Proof Of Payments
Please send the bank transaction slip or receipt as proof of payment by uploading to

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*Please bring along your proof of payment on the registration day.

Cancellation and Refund Policy
Payments made are non-refundable.

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International Scientific Committee

SC Members	Institution
Adrian Dusa	University of Bucharest, Romania
Ana Maria Dobre	National Institute of Statistics
Antoniade-Ciprian Alexandru	Ecological University of Bucharest, Romania
Arindam Bose	Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), Mumbai, India
Bogdan Oancea	The University of Bucharest and National Institute of Statistics, Bucharest, Romania
Dorin Jula	Romanian Academy, Institute for Economic Forecasting and Ecological University of Bucharest, Romania
Elena Druica	University of Bucharest, Romania
Gerald Cheang	University of South Australia, Australia
Gheorghe Zaman	Romanian Academy, Institute of National Economy, Bucharest, Romania
Hala Aly Fergany	Tanta University, Egypt
Lucian Liviu Albu	Romanian Academy, Institute for Economic Forecasting, Bucharest, Romania
Matthias Templ	Statistics Austria & Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland
Martin Everett	University of Manchester, UK
Muhammad Rozi Malim	Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia
Monica Roman	Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Romania
Nicoleta Caragea	National Institute of Statistics and Ecological University of Bucharest, Romania
Nicolae-Marius Jula	Nicolae Titulescu University, Bucharest, Romania
Nur Chamidah	Airlangga University, Indonesia
Poo Kuan Hoong	Axiata Group Berhad, Malaysia
Rozaini Roslan	Universiti Tun Hussein Onn, Malaysia
Sharidan Shafie	Universiti Teknologi Malaysia
Shirlee R. Ocampo	De La Salle University, Filipina
Suhaidi Hassan	Universiti Utara Malaysia, Malaysia
Tudorel Andrei	National Institute of Statistics Bucharest and University of Economic Studies, Bucharest, Romania
Valentina Vasile	Romanian Academy, Institute of National Economy, Bucharest, Romania
Zakiah Ibrahim Kalantan	King Abdulaziz University, Saudi Arabia
Zurni Omar	Universiti Utara Malaysia, Malaysia

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Organizing Committee (Universiti Teknologi MARA Kedah)

Abd Razak Ahmad
Amirah Hazwani Abd Rahim
Anis Mardiana Ahmad
Asmahani Nayan
Fazillah Bosli
Kamarul Ariffin Mansor
Kartini Kassim
Kor Liew Kee
Mohd Rijal Illias
Noor Hafizah Zainal Aznam
Norashikin Nasaruddin
Nur Azlina Abdul Rashid
Rosidah Ahmad
Shahida Farhan Zakaria
Siti Fairus Mokhtar
Wan Hasni Sabariah Wan Hassan
Wan Siti Esah Che Hussain

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