MIRAI NEWS

10 Mar 2023

Miraiers continue to acquire new skills - this time our training focused on Curling.

18 Jan 2023

Mirai RiskMetrics (MiRiM) is a Shiny app based on the RiskMetrics methodology enhanced to analyze the market risk of a portfolio.

01 Nov 2022

XLConnect 1.0.6 now available from CRAN and from our GitHub repository.

28 Oct 2022

The traditional Mirai Summer Event took place in September with Mirai Alumni.

26 Aug 2022

Learn how to control your R Shiny development with a collaborative and agile deployment to production.

19 Aug 2022

Best practices for a robust and maintainable shiny app.

15 Aug 2022

Find out how to customize a shiny app and make it more accessible to users with our workshop on 07/09.

09 Aug 2022

Learn how to develop from scratch an interactive web interface in R shiny on August 31st.

21 Jul 2022

Enhance your data science toolkit with our “Introduction to R Shiny” learning path: build your first shiny app, make it shine and robust, build a package and bring it to production.

17 Jun 2022

Last 2 workshops of “Introduction to R” learning path: from R programming, to building an R package.

02 Jun 2022

Learn how to develop an R package properly in R with us on June 29th!

26 May 2022

Learn how to program your own algorithms in R with us on June 22nd!

23 May 2022

Our Miranners team has made it to the 2022 SOLA relay run!

20 May 2022

Become professional at data analysis with tidyverse in R on June 15th!

13 May 2022

Take the first R steps and enhance your data science toolkit with us on June 8th!

09 May 2022

Enhance your data science toolkit with our “Introduction to R” learning path: from the basis of the syntax, to building and hosting an R package on GitHub.

05 May 2022

On 25/05 learn the basis of version control via a hands-on 3.5-hours workshop using command line, R, RStudio or a web browser.

02 May 2022

We are happy to announce our fourth series of workshops, to take place in 2022.

18 Mar 2022

After the success of the past series, new workshops are planned for the upcoming months!

08 Mar 2022

A new live R Shiny application in our gallery: COVID-19 vaccination breakthroughs in Switzerland.

31 Jan 2022

Today we will cover a time series solution that’s used by the giants - Apache Druid.

04 Jan 2022

Comparing clustering methods manually can be tricky and cumbersome. We propose an automated method that would output the number of correctly clustered entries.

20 Dec 2021

After three workshops series done in Q4 2021 our teaching has reached its conclusion for this year.

06 Dec 2021

Our Covid19 app provides a global view of the pandemic, but how effective is the vaccination in Switzerland?

18 Nov 2021

Here we are with a new tool for data processing. This time it’s Apache Drill.

17 Nov 2021

Don’t miss the chance to attend our workshop at the early-bird price: only until 24/11/2021.

12 Nov 2021

A simple overview of a new DevOps superpower.

10 Nov 2021

Don’t miss the chance to attend our workshop at the early-bird price: only until 17/11/2021.

04 Nov 2021

Extensive materials now published on GitHub!

03 Nov 2021

Don’t miss the chance to attend our workshop at the early-bird price: only until 10/11/2021.

29 Oct 2021

Learn how to control your R Shiny development with a collaborative and agile deployment to production.

27 Oct 2021

Don’t miss the chance to attend our workshop at the early-bird price: only until 03/11/2021.

25 Oct 2021

Don’t miss the chance to attend our workshop at the early-bird price: only until 27/10/2021.

22 Oct 2021

Best practices for a robust and maintainable shiny app.

20 Oct 2021

Our Covid19 app provides global view of the pandemic, but how effective is the vaccination in Switzerland?

19 Oct 2021

Don’t miss the chance to attend our workshop at the early-bird price: only until 20/10/2021.

15 Oct 2021

Find out how to customize a shiny app and make it more accessible to users with our workshop on 17/11.

12 Oct 2021

Make the transition from R User to R Developer with us on November 3rd!

11 Oct 2021

Don’t miss the chance to attend our workshop at the early-bird price: only until 13/10/2021.

10 Oct 2021

Learn how to develop from scratch an interactive web interface in R shiny on November 10th.

06 Oct 2021

Become professional at data analysis with tidyverse in R on October 27th!

01 Oct 2021

Mirai Solutions stays engaged in the development and maintenance of the front-end of the OASIS LMF (Loss Modeling Framework) platform.

29 Sep 2021

Take the first R steps and enhance your data science toolkit with us on October 20th!

23 Sep 2021

Last time we tried to transform Azure with the power of Terraform. Let’s pick up where we left off.

22 Sep 2021

Enhance your data science toolkit with our “Shiny” learning path: build your first shiny app, make it shine and robust, and bring it to production.

15 Sep 2021

Enhance your data science toolkit with our “Introduction to R” learning path: from the basis of the syntax, to operations and functions, for solid programming foundations.

10 Sep 2021

Don’t miss the chance to attend our workshop at the early-bird price: only until 22/09/2021.

10 Sep 2021

Last few weeks we were busy trying to make Azure habitable using Terraform. Let’s see if we were able to plant anything.

08 Sep 2021

Oasis conference 2021 back to hybrid mode at the SwissRe center.

01 Sep 2021

We asked this question to the Community and are now ready to present the results.

27 Aug 2021

An overview of the latest in the OASIS LMF (Loss Modeling Framework) platform and a new video in our gallery.

25 Aug 2021

Learn the basis of version control via an hands-on 3-hours workshop using command line, R, RStudio or a web browser.

20 Aug 2021

We are happy to announce our third series of workshops, to take place in the fall of 2021.

23 Jul 2021

The useR! conference took place as a global online conference and we are eager to share some impressions.

06 Jul 2021

Check out Mirai’s contributions to useR!2021.

28 Jun 2021

What makes one an R Developer and how does it differ from being an R User?

25 Jun 2021

GitHub Actions has been maturing as a CI / CD tool, therefore we updated our techguides to focus more on it.

25 Jun 2021

Insurance Data Science Conference returned again for the third year.

18 Jun 2021

R User or R Developer? Attend our Panel Discussion at useR!2021 on Tuesday July 6th at 4 pm UTC (agenda).

16 Jun 2021

After the success of the past series, new workshops are planned for the upcoming months!

24 May 2021

Scrum identifies four ceremonies, but is it more or less than the usual time spent in meetings?

13 May 2021

Technical debt piling up to a not maintainable project is any software development team nightmare.

03 May 2021

The challenges brought by digitalization and a fast-pacing market call for an agile approach to product/software development and organization structure.

23 Apr 2021

Get to know more about Mirai with the many novelties on our website.

19 Apr 2021

Do not miss our presentation “Agile, the right answer for the ‘next normal’ in the insurance sector” at IDS2021.

09 Apr 2021

After four hands-on workshops our journey has reached its conclusion.

26 Mar 2021

A 3 hours, hands-on workshop about safe, agile and automated deployment of a Shiny App.

24 Mar 2021

A year of Shiny development to continuously catch-up with the worldwide epidemic Covid-19.

19 Mar 2021

A combo of 2 workshops to learn from professionals the best practices to build a Shiny App and bring it to Production.

17 Mar 2021

Once again Mirai was thrilled to attend the Women in Data Science (WiDS) Zurich .

12 Mar 2021

Concepts like reproducibility, integrity and collaborative development are a “must” for using R in production.

10 Mar 2021

New XLConnect technical chapter in our open-source techguides.

06 Mar 2021

How to apply the spring cleaning principles and advanced programming to your Shiny App.

05 Mar 2021

The conference scene has been revolutionized since e-Rum2020 took place, almost a year ago.

26 Feb 2021

Value the users of your Shiny App: Do not overlook the power of a professional UI.

24 Feb 2021

Mirai Solutions, together with Swiss Re Institute, is sponsoring the online Insurance Data Science Conference next 16 - 18 June 2021.

12 Feb 2021

Let R Shiny do the storytelling job for you and add fantastic interactive interfaces for your R analysis.

10 Feb 2021

We are happy to announce rTRNG 4.23.1-1, and share its journey with valgrind, Docker and GitHub Actions.

29 Jan 2021

Finally new dates! Take a visit to our upcoming workshops offer on the very exciting R Shiny topic!

27 Jan 2021

Mirai Risk Metrics (MiRiM) is a Shiny app based on the Risk Metrics methodology and intended to analyze and visualize commodity data.

14 Dec 2020

Many thanks to all who participated to make our first workshop series a success!

24 Nov 2020

Last but not least, the workshop ‘Not Agile yet? Experience being part of a scrum team’ will bring to close Mirai first series of workshop in Data Science!

18 Nov 2020

IMPORTANT! ‘Sparkling Shiny App’ Workshop now on the 9th of December.

16 Nov 2020

Mirai is thrilled to announce that one of his cherished workshop Bring your Shiny App to Production will be given on December 1st!

06 Nov 2020

Mirai’s workshop series continues. Next in the pipeline is Sparkling Shiny App on 24th November.

02 Nov 2020

Learn how to empower your data through a Shiny interface at Mirai’s new workshop My 1ST Shiny App on 17th November.

28 Oct 2020

Learn how to program like a professional: boost your R skills and get set on the path to best coding practices at Mirai’s workshop Think like a programmeR.

21 Oct 2020

Discover how to use R to break free from Excel’s limitations at Mirai’s From Excel to R workshop.

20 Oct 2020

IMPORTANT! Given the COVID-19 current situation in Switzerland, we felt obligated to limit our workshops series offer to solely online and so to give up on the workshops in person in Zurich .

07 Oct 2020

Save the dates! Check out our upcoming workshops on some of our favorite topics: R, R-Shiny, DevOps and Agility!

25 Aug 2020

We are happy to share our virtual workshop experience at e-Rum 2020, including materials and recordings.

30 Jun 2020

e-Rum2020 conference connects many hundreds of R enthusiasts in virtual space!

11 Jun 2020

In this post we will try to get a quick overview of the new Apache Arrow Flight framework functionality.

20 Apr 2020

2020 European R Users Meeting (eRum2020) has launched CovidR, an open-source contest and pre-conference event, for R work around the topic of the COVID-19 pandemic.

06 Apr 2020

XLConnect 1.0.1 now available from CRAN and from our GitHub repository.

27 Mar 2020

We have gathered interesting COVID-19 resources and made them easily accessible within a single gallery website.

23 Mar 2020

Gain insight about the current COVID-19 pandemic with R and Shiny.

17 Mar 2020

IMPORTANT! Due to COVID-19 spreading our workshop “Sharing your data science work: Transform your R code into an API with plumber” is postponed to October.

28 Jan 2020

The second edition of the MiraiLabs series will take place on March 24th. Save the date!

23 Jan 2020

For the 2020 Winter event, Miraiers decided to lighten their heads by practicing some flying at Windwerk in Winterthur!

14 Jan 2020

We are happy to announce techguides, an open-source home for collecting technical guidelines.

06 Nov 2019

We are pleased to announce the initial public release of our Python tutorial package showcasing a basic Secret Santa application. Check it out on GitHub!

02 Oct 2019

To make up for missing the SOLA this year, Miranners instead participated on September 28th in the smaller version taking place around Winterthur!

27 Sep 2019

The first MiraiLab, “From Prototype to Production” took place on Tuesday, September 24th, at Impact Hub, Colab.

26 Sep 2019

The conference took place in early September at ZHAW in Winterthur.

25 Sep 2019

It is always easier to understand the benefits of an agile approach once you try it out yourself.

14 Aug 2019

Following up on our agile series, we are happy to share an overview of the most common agile frameworks.

29 Jul 2019

The EuroPython 2019 conference came to Basel, Switzerland this summer! Check out our summary of this lovely event.

20 Jul 2019

This year, the greater R community gathering useR! took place in sunny Toulouse in July, bringing together over 1000 practitioners from both academia and industry.

16 Jul 2019

The European R conference will visit Milan in 2020! Mirai Solutions is delighted to actively support and participate in the organization of the event.

15 Jul 2019

We are really excited to announce our latest initiative, MiraiLabs, a series of workshops for professionals who would like to strengthen their data science skill set.

07 Jul 2019

It’s time to celebrate, Mirai has turned 10 years old!

04 Jul 2019

We are happy to announce the R package compareWith, providing user-friendly RStudio addins that simplify diff and merge tasks.

04 Jul 2019

As supporters of the agile approach and mindset we are happy to share some of our insight as Scrum practitioners.

17 Jun 2019

The Insurance Data Science Conference 2019 took place on June 14th at ETH Zurich and Mirai Solutions was ready to contribute with a sponsorship and two talks.

12 Jun 2019

Oasis Loss Modeling Framework has been building an active community, which seeks to unlock and revolutionize the world of CAT modeling.

11 Jun 2019

Excitement is building up for the second edition (7th overall) of the Insurance Data Science (former R in Insurance)!

10 Jun 2019

Following on the recent CRAN release of rTRNG, it’s time to show its features and usage more in detail.

04 May 2019

After dwelling happily on our GitHub repositories for an extended period of time, rTRNG has now finally made it to CRAN.

30 Apr 2019

Mirai presenting TensorFlow Probability and Solvency Contagion Modeling at Insurance Data Science 2019 in Zurich.

10 Apr 2019

With one foot in the organization and another in the audience, Mirai was in a great position to fully appreciate and enjoy the Women in Data Science Zurich 2019 event.

26 Mar 2019

Introducing SmaRP: Smart Retirement Planning to the Milan R community, as an example of how to communicate and visualize your R development.

21 Mar 2019

On a crisp Tuesday evening, we set out to Illgau to enjoy a moonlit snowshoe hike.

08 Feb 2019

We are pleased to announce that our revised training offer is now available on the website.

05 Feb 2019

Women in Data Science (WiDS) is taking place in Zurich for the second year in a row!

04 Feb 2019

Blockchain is a technology growing roots in Zurich, both in industry and academia.

24 Jan 2019

We are pleased to share that the 2019 OASIS LMF conferences will again take place in Zurich and London, just one week apart in the month of June.

14 Dec 2018

On Monday December 10th, Mirai provided a free workshop introduction to R with tidyverse, in collaboration with Geek Girls Carrots Switzerland.

11 Dec 2018

Mirai Solutions is proud to be one of the sponsors for this year’s edition of Insurance Data Science Conference.

23 Oct 2018

On Tuesday October 23rd, the event “Blockchain – An Enabler Of Risk Management?” organized by the Swiss Risk Association took place.

25 Sep 2018

Mirai Solutions was invited to participate to the second 2018 OASIS LMF conference: “The good, the bad and the ugly”

15 Sep 2018

ETH RiskLab organized Risk Day for the 20th time.

07 Sep 2018

On September 6th, the 3rd conference on Artificial intelligence applied to Industry and Finance, hosted by the Zurich University of Applied Sciences ZHAW, took place in the nice city of Winterthur.

25 Jul 2018

Insurance Data Science was held on 16 July 2018 at Cass Business School in London.

01 Jun 2018

This year’s Mirai summer event involved a brunch and a raft building exercise at the scenic Walensee.

17 May 2018

The eRum2018 Conference took place in Budapest on May 14th-16th.

07 May 2018

On May 5th, Mirai took part in the SOLA relay run in Zurich.

01 May 2018

We are sponsoring again the Insurance Data Science, formerly known as R in Insurance, on 16 July 2018 at Cass Business School in London.

25 Apr 2018

Excited to announce that Mirai will be presenting SmaRP: Smart Retirement Planning at the eRum2018 conference.

26 Mar 2018

Tuesday March 20th, the Women in Data science conference 2018 took place in Zurich and our Miraier Francesca attended the event.

26 Feb 2018

Miraiers continue to explore new skills and talents - this time at the bowling hall.

25 Jan 2018

We are pleased to announce the release of XLConnect 0.2-14, now available from CRAN and from our GitHub repository.

09 Jan 2018

This post shows how to use Apache Spark and Google BigQuery in R via sparklyr to efficiently analyze a big dataset (NYC yellow taxi trips).

08 Jan 2018

Zurich R User Group meetup was held at the Viaduct Impact Hub on January 8.

03 Jan 2018

Zurich R User Group organizes the next Zurich R User Meetup in the cool location of Viaduct Impact Hub on January 8.

05 Dec 2017

We show how to use roxygen2 tags and templates for deprecating existing documented functions.

23 Nov 2017

Mirai went Curling!

25 Oct 2017

ETH Risk Center organized a high-class event located at the impressive Swiss Re Centre for Global Dialogue in Rüschlikon.

17 Oct 2017

The GPU Technology Conference (GTC) organized by NVIDIA is one of the most important events around GPU computing for developers, data scientists and decision makers.

03 Oct 2017

Between 12th and 14th of September the Enterprise Application of R Language conference EARL took place in London.

02 Oct 2017

Miraiers went to the beautiful Appenzell for a hike.

25 Sep 2017

On September 14th the Swiss fintech scene gathered at the 3rd Finance 2.0 conference on cryptofinance celebrated in Zurich.

18 Sep 2017

On Friday 15th September 2017, the traditional ETH Risk Day took place.

14 Jul 2017

The largest annual R conference attracted to Belgium over a thousand R enthusiasts from across the globe, with a packed week of tutorials, talks, discussions and exchange.

07 Jul 2017

The 4th edition of the popular Swiss Conference on Data Science took place in Berne on June 16th. For those who missed it, here a brief first-hand impression summary.

03 Jul 2017

Swiss Risk association organized an interesting seminar on Artificial Intelligence (AI) at the ETH. Prominent speakers from IBM, 4th IR, Leading Edge Forum, Microsoft, and Google presented their views on the latest development of AI and its implications to modern society and business.

26 Jun 2017

From July 4 to 7 the useR!2017 will take place in Brussels, Belgium. A group of 4 Miraiers is looking forward to what has become THE flagship event of R.

20 Jun 2017

On Thursday 8th June the 5th edition of the R in Insurance Conference took place in Paris. Once again we were delighted to attend and support this year’s event.

09 Jun 2017

The R/Finance 2017 conference has been a great opportunity to meet an active community of practitioners and academics using R for applied finance.

16 May 2017

We are pleased to announce the release of XLConnect 0.2‑13, now available from CRAN and from our GitHub repository.

10 May 2017

Mirai employees, alumni, and friends participated again at the SOLA relay run in Zurich.

09 May 2017

Mirai will be at the R/Finance 2017 conference in Chicago on May 19 and 20, with a lightning-talk about advanced RNG applied to Monte Carlo credit default simulation.

26 Apr 2017

Mirai Solutions will again participate with a highly motivated team in the annual SOLA relay run.

04 Mar 2017

Saturday 4th March 2017 was the Open Data Day and all around the world, events took place to celebrate sharing data.

02 Feb 2017

We spent a beautiful winter Saturday in Braunwald hiking on the fresh snow with snowshoes.

05 Dec 2016

A Zurich R User Meetup occurred on 29th of November. For this special occasion - the meetup group turned one year - the topic was how to use R in different professions.

28 Sep 2016

Mirai Solutions has been actively participating in various conferences and workshops this autumn. Here are the highlights.

05 Sep 2016

The traditional Mirai Summer Event took place last week in the heart of Switzerland.

18 Jul 2016

Mirai Solutions was actively present at the 4th R in Insurance Conference in London, which was a great opportunity to meet both practitioners and academics active in the field.

27 Jun 2016

We are pleased to announce the release of XLConnect 0.2‑12, now available from CRAN and from our GitHub repository.

21 May 2016

Our team of 14 “Miranners” has completed the 116.1 km of the SOLA relay run in a total time of 11:26:08.9.

03 May 2016

The programme for the 4th R in Insurance conference is finalized. Mirai Solutions will present latest advancements on how to achieve parallel Monte Carlo simulations that are efficient, flexible and reproducible.

13 Apr 2016

We are happy to announce that Mirai Solutions will be sponsoring the R in Insurance 2016 conference, taking place in London on the 11th of July.

18 Mar 2016

The “Miranners” running team will once again participate in the SOLA relay run, continuing a Mirai tradition.

01 Jan 2016

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01 Jan 2016

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