General Meeting
Thursday, 9 February 2012 - 6:30 PM to 8:00 PM
Google, 75 9th Ave. 2nd Floor. New York, NY 10011
(map/subway)
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Due to security policies where our meetings are held,
you
MUST RSVP
to put yourself on this month's guest list.
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Jay Emerson
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A Serious Talk About Having Fun and
Being Productive with the R Language
** Please note important information about: this meeting **
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.
More Information:
About Jay Emerson:
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.
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Meeting Location:
Please note that this meeting will be held at Google Chelsea Market
Office at 75 Ninth Ave, 2nd Floor, NY, NY 10011.
You must RSVP for this meeting. http://rsvp.nylug.org
Map:
http://g.co/maps/ngctb
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Stammtisch -
After the meeting ... Join us around 8:30 PM or so at a bar around the area for a few rounds!
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NYLUG GPG Keysignings - During Stammtisch,
we can gather for a keysigning. So for those who have keys
already, please remember to bring hard-copy printouts of your 40-character key
fingerprint. If you haven't created a key yet, please see our howto
here: http://www.nylug.org/keys It's best to
state your desire to sign keys on our mailing list before the meeting.
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and at Google's new New York headquarters over in Chelsea.
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