This post shares the video from the talk presented on 15th May 2013 by Dr Kendra Vant on ProjectTemplate, github and Rstudio at Melbourne R Users. Overview: Want to minimise the drudge work of data prep? Get started with test … Continue reading →

This post shares the video from a talk presented on 9th April 2013 by Jim Savage at Melbourne R Users. Billions of dollars a year are spent subsidising tuition of Australian university students. A controversial report last year by the … Continue reading →

The following post presents the video of a talk by Hong Ooi who presented at Melbourne R Users, March 2013. Content: Greenplum is a massively parallel relational database platform. R is one of the top languages in the data scientist/applied … Continue reading →

Sebastián Duchêne presented a talk at Melbourne R Users on 20th February 2013 on the Survey Package in R. Talk Overview: Complex designs are common in survey data. In practice, collecting random samples from a populations is costly and impractical. … Continue reading →

This post shares the video from a talk presented on 20th November 2012 by Professor Rob Hyndman at Melbourne R Users. The talk provides an introduction to: Getting R help Debugging R functions R style guides Making good use of … Continue reading →

This post shares the video from the talk presented on 15th August 2012 by Dr Andrew Robinson on S3 Classes at Melbourne R Users. S3 classes are baked in to R; their influence permeates the language and how we interact … Continue reading →

This post shares the video from a talk presented on June 20 2012 by Dr Lyndon Walker (see Meetup page). The talk was titled “Getting staRted with R: An accelerated primer”. To quote the outline of the talk : R … Continue reading →

The following video was recorded at Melbourne R Users. A summary of the talk is as follows: Recent advances in medical imaging allow us to routinely acquire highly detailed images of the living human brain. These images can be used … Continue reading →

The following video was filmed at Melbourne R Users. The description of the talk from the meetup site: Eu Jin is a Senior Analyst with Deloitte Analytics in Melbourne. He has over four years experience in data mining and statistical … Continue reading →

On September 14th 2011 Dr Alec Stephenson gave a talk on exploring spatial data with R (see Meetup page). The video of the talk is now available online. The talk provides a non-mathematical and entirely equation-free talk on visualizing and … Continue reading →

In July 2011, Hong Ooi presented an engaging talk to Melbourne R Users Group. Both David Smith from Revolutions and Eugene Dubossarsky behind the Analyst First movement have discussed the presentation. The video of the talk is now available for … Continue reading →

Jeremy Howard gave a talk at the Melbourne R User Group on 16th March 2011. Jeremy provided tips on how to successfully compete in data mining competitions. He showed how he combines R with other tools to build predictive models. … Continue reading →

On February 17th 2011 Rory Winston gave a talk on creating R packages at the Melbourne R Users Group (see Meetup page). Slides from the talk can be downloaded here. For more information about Rory check out his blog The … Continue reading →

Melbourne R Users Group December 1st 2010 Meeting (Meetup page). 1. “What my R code looks and feels like (Vanilla)” by Geoff Robinson The other talk from the session was by Geoff Robinson who discussed several useful strategies for working … Continue reading →