MIRAI NEWS - DATA SCIENCE

19 Mar 2025

PEMG (Partial Equilibrium Model for Gas) is a Shiny app that calculates and visualizes optimal natural gas prices and consumption levels for a selection of European countries.

03 Jul 2024

We are thrilled to announce our upcoming workshop titled Scale Your Analytics: Leveraging Apache Spark in Python and R. This event will take place on Tuesday, September 17, 2024, at Impact Hub Zürich, and we would love for you to join us!

18 Jan 2023

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

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.

18 Nov 2021

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

12 Nov 2021

A simple overview of a new DevOps superpower.

04 Nov 2021

Extensive materials now published on GitHub!

23 Sep 2021

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

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.

25 Jun 2021

Insurance Data Science Conference returned again for the third year.

19 Apr 2021

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

24 Mar 2021

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

17 Mar 2021

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

24 Feb 2021

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

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!

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!

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.

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!

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.

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.

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.

11 Jun 2019

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

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.

05 Feb 2019

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

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.

11 Dec 2018

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

25 Sep 2018

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

25 Jul 2018

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

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.

26 Mar 2018

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

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).

25 Oct 2017

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

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.

04 Mar 2017

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

28 Sep 2016

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