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NYC LOCAL: Thursday 9 February 2012 NYLUG: Jay Emerson presents A Serious Talk about R the Statistics System
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From: Brian Gupta <in...@nylug.org>
Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2012 16:41:59 -0500
To: nylug-announce <nylug-a...@nylug.org>
Subject: [nylug-announce] NYLUG Presents: 2/9 @6:30PM Jay Emerson on A Serious Talk About Having Fun and Being Productive with the R Language for Linux Lovers
Reply-To: Announcements from NYLUG <nylug-a...@nylug.org>
Thursday, February 9, 2012
6:30-8:30 PM
Google "Chelsea Market" Office
75 Ninth Ave, Floor 2,
New York, NY
(Enter the building at the Chelsea Market entrance. Immediately to
your right after the security desk will be a staircase. Take it to the
2nd floor.)
NOTE: This is not the 14th & 8th building you may be familiar with!
Jay Emerson
- on -
A Serious Talk About Having Fun and Being Productive with the R
Language for Linux Lovers
This talk will provide a quick but intense introduction to the R
Language: a free software environment for statistical computing and
graphics. It is open-source (mostly GPL-2), available for several
platforms, and thrives in Linux. The talk will be largely
example-driven, with plenty of takeaway material and code examples.
I'll argue that it's simply the right language for data exploration
and statistical analysis, and is particularly fantastic for graphics
and code development. I'll conclude by introducing the package
management system (and the Comprehensive R Archive Network -- CRAN)
and the C/C++ interface.
http://www.r-project.org
Bibliography: Jay Emerson is Associate Professor of Statistics, Yale
University. Jay teaches both graduate and undergraduate courses and
often includes timely real-world problems and examples in his
lectures, an intersection of teaching and research. For example, he
collaborated with the Wall Street Journal in uncovering the infamous
stock option backdating scandal, and he demonstrated a design flaw in
the new scoring system used for international figure skating
competitions. He has worked on Bayesian change point analyses and
created the "generalized pairs plot" for the R Statistical Programming
Environment. He has worked towards a scalable solution for
statistical computing with massive data, extending support for the
management, analysis, and exploration of massive data sets in R.
Where: Google Chelsea Market Office at 75 Ninth Ave, 2nd Floor, NY, NY 10011
Map: http://g.co/maps/ngctb
The entrance looks like: http://g.co/maps/hucps
(Once inside, take the stairs on the right just past the security desk
up one floor and enter the door on the left. The conference room is
straight ahead. We will check your name off of the RSVP list at the
entrance to the conference room.)
An RSVP is required for this meeting. You may RSVP here on meetup
http://www.meetup.com/nylug-meetings/ or at http://rsvp.nylug.org/
We have established a waiting list for this event, so please cancel
your reservation if you aren't planning on going.
Coding Workshops/Hacking Society:
This is a group of people that wants to learn about and work on coding
in Python, Smalltalk, Ruby, C++, LaTeX, and other languages, and hack on code.
There will also be help given for those who wish to install Linux for the
first time.
Hardware hacking projects are also welcome.
Sometimes they go out to eat afterward.
Bring something to show off and discuss!
The workshops meet every other Tuesday, at the NY Public Library,
Hudson Park Branch. 66 Leroy St. NY NY from 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Next meetings are Jan 31, and Feb 14.
See the calendar at: http://nylug.org/hackcalendar
Please see our home page at http://www.nylug.org for the HTMLized
version of this announcement, our archives, and a lot of other good
stuff.
______________________________________________________________________
Participate in drafting NYLUG's charter: http://spinoza.opsrealist.info/charter/
nylug-announce mailing list nylug-a...@nylug.org
http://nylug.org/mailman/listinfo/nylug-announce
</blockquote>
Distributed poC TINC:
Jay Sulzberger <secr...@lxny.org>
Corresponding Secretary LXNY
LXNY is New York's Free Computing Organization.
http://www.lxny.org
what="official NYLUG announcement"
more="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R_%28programming_language%29
[page was last modified on 6 February 2012 at 03:48]
http://www.r-project.org/
http://cran.r-project.org/
http://ess.r-project.org/"
edits="some odd characters removed">
From: Brian Gupta <in...@nylug.org>
Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2012 16:41:59 -0500
To: nylug-announce <nylug-a...@nylug.org>
Subject: [nylug-announce] NYLUG Presents: 2/9 @6:30PM Jay Emerson on A Serious Talk About Having Fun and Being Productive with the R Language for Linux Lovers
Reply-To: Announcements from NYLUG <nylug-a...@nylug.org>
Thursday, February 9, 2012
6:30-8:30 PM
Google "Chelsea Market" Office
75 Ninth Ave, Floor 2,
New York, NY
(Enter the building at the Chelsea Market entrance. Immediately to
your right after the security desk will be a staircase. Take it to the
2nd floor.)
NOTE: This is not the 14th & 8th building you may be familiar with!
Jay Emerson
- on -
A Serious Talk About Having Fun and Being Productive with the R
Language for Linux Lovers
This talk will provide a quick but intense introduction to the R
Language: a free software environment for statistical computing and
graphics. It is open-source (mostly GPL-2), available for several
platforms, and thrives in Linux. The talk will be largely
example-driven, with plenty of takeaway material and code examples.
I'll argue that it's simply the right language for data exploration
and statistical analysis, and is particularly fantastic for graphics
and code development. I'll conclude by introducing the package
management system (and the Comprehensive R Archive Network -- CRAN)
and the C/C++ interface.
http://www.r-project.org
Bibliography: Jay Emerson is Associate Professor of Statistics, Yale
University. Jay teaches both graduate and undergraduate courses and
often includes timely real-world problems and examples in his
lectures, an intersection of teaching and research. For example, he
collaborated with the Wall Street Journal in uncovering the infamous
stock option backdating scandal, and he demonstrated a design flaw in
the new scoring system used for international figure skating
competitions. He has worked on Bayesian change point analyses and
created the "generalized pairs plot" for the R Statistical Programming
Environment. He has worked towards a scalable solution for
statistical computing with massive data, extending support for the
management, analysis, and exploration of massive data sets in R.
Where: Google Chelsea Market Office at 75 Ninth Ave, 2nd Floor, NY, NY 10011
Map: http://g.co/maps/ngctb
The entrance looks like: http://g.co/maps/hucps
(Once inside, take the stairs on the right just past the security desk
up one floor and enter the door on the left. The conference room is
straight ahead. We will check your name off of the RSVP list at the
entrance to the conference room.)
An RSVP is required for this meeting. You may RSVP here on meetup
http://www.meetup.com/nylug-meetings/ or at http://rsvp.nylug.org/
We have established a waiting list for this event, so please cancel
your reservation if you aren't planning on going.
Coding Workshops/Hacking Society:
This is a group of people that wants to learn about and work on coding
in Python, Smalltalk, Ruby, C++, LaTeX, and other languages, and hack on code.
There will also be help given for those who wish to install Linux for the
first time.
Hardware hacking projects are also welcome.
Sometimes they go out to eat afterward.
Bring something to show off and discuss!
The workshops meet every other Tuesday, at the NY Public Library,
Hudson Park Branch. 66 Leroy St. NY NY from 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Next meetings are Jan 31, and Feb 14.
See the calendar at: http://nylug.org/hackcalendar
Please see our home page at http://www.nylug.org for the HTMLized
version of this announcement, our archives, and a lot of other good
stuff.
______________________________________________________________________
Participate in drafting NYLUG's charter: http://spinoza.opsrealist.info/charter/
nylug-announce mailing list nylug-a...@nylug.org
http://nylug.org/mailman/listinfo/nylug-announce
</blockquote>
Distributed poC TINC:
Jay Sulzberger <secr...@lxny.org>
Corresponding Secretary LXNY
LXNY is New York's Free Computing Organization.
http://www.lxny.org
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