Tagged with user groups

Eight new R User Groups worldwide

There are new local R user groups in eight (!) countries to announce this month: Sweden is host to the first R user group in Scandinavia. StockholmR has been holding meetings since September, and their next meeting on November 28 will be on Teaching R and Data visualization using R. In Taiwan, … Continue reading →

Nine lightning talks on R

At Tuesday's Bay Area R User Group meetup, nine speakers gave five-minute talks on various aspects of R. Revolution Analytics' Luba Gloukhov was one of the presenters, and also provides the summary of the talks below. Links to the slides are included where available for you to check … Continue reading →

R User Group Sponsorship: Applications open for 2013

Here at Revolution Analytics, we're proud to have been a part of fostering local user groups for R users around the world. Last year we sponsored more than 40 groups, with representation from every continent around the world. And we're thrilled to see the continued growth in user groups: … Continue reading →

Tips for Making R User Group Videos

Today's guest post is from Ron Fredericks, videographer and co-founder of LectureMaker, LLC — ed. I was initially surprised to find R user groups (RUGs) so popular. I filmed my first R session during the 2009 Predictive Analytics World in San Francisco. I filmed several more R user … Continue reading →

New Revolution Analytics office in Singapore

We're excited to announce the latest outpost of the Revolution Analytics team, with the opening of a new office in Singapore! This office will serve as the local HQ for Revolution Analytics serving our customers in the Asia-Pacific region. It was opened with the support of the support of … Continue reading →

New R User Groups in San Antonio, Milwaukee, Nicaragua

We have three new local R user groups to announce this month. The Alamo City R Users Group in San Antonio becomes the fifth R user group in Texas. The group's just getting started, and volunteers are always welcome.   Although not a dedicated R group, the Milwaukee Chapter of the … Continue reading →

New R User Group in Leipzig, Germany

Leipzig R Statistical Computing is the sixth local R user group in Germany, and has been holding meetings since February. In the next meeting on July 12, member Claudia Beleites will talk about her pacakges softclassval (for classifier performance measures) and hyperspec (for hyperspectral … Continue reading →

New R User Groups in Ankara, Toronto

Two new local R user groups to report this week. In Turkey, the Ankara R Users Group has just started up. No meetings are scheduled yet, so be sure to suggest a meeting time/location when you sign up. The Toronto-based R Matlab Users group focuses on financial services applications. Created by … Continue reading →

June 29: The Royal Statistical Society talks R

On June 29, the Royal Statistical Society will host six hours of presentations about R, under the banner "To R, or not to R, that is the question". Speakers include R Core member Prof Uwe Ligges, Dr Wayne Jones (from Shell UK), and Dr Peter Nash (from Imperial College London), among … Continue reading →

New R User Group in Cologne, Germany

The latest local R user group to join the fold is the Köln R User Group, now the sixth R user group in Germany. Their first group meeting will be on July 6, with presentations on ANOVA, ggplot2 graphics in Deducer, and writing R code with Emacs's Org-mode. If you're in the Cologne … Continue reading →

New R User Group in Montréal

The Biology Department at McGill University in Québec, Canada has been running a series of R workshops since 2010. Past topics have included Generalized Additive Models, Linear Mixed-effects Models and a four-part Intro to R series -- follow the links and look at the bottom of each page for … Continue reading →

New R User Group in Milan

Italy now has three local R user groups, thanks to the recent formation of MilanoR in the city of Milan. Founded by R consulting company Quantide's Andrea Spanò, R-core member and University of Milan professor Stefano Iacus, and quantitative consultant Daniele Amberti, MilanoR will be a … Continue reading →

New R User Groups in Lithuania, Birmingham, Taiwan

Three new local R user groups to add to the list today: from Lithuania, Taiwan, and Birmingham (UK). The Chinese Academy of R Software (CARS) serves R users in Taipei (Taiwan). It has been approved by the Ministry of the Interior of Taiwan, and has more than 500 "likes" on its Facebook … Continue reading →

New R User Group at Berkeley

There's a new R user group in Berkely, CA: The Berkeley R Language Beginner Study Group. Join this small group for a step-by-step approach to learn the language R. Each session will be filled with examples and participants are welcome to suggest and present topics. If you have just started … Continue reading →

A new local R user group in Cambridge, UK

It turns out there's another local R user group in Cambridge, UK. It's called CambR, and organizing committee member Laurent Gatto described its history to me in an email: After meeting repeatedly at several R related conferences (Bioconductor meetings, useR 2011), some R enthusiasts … Continue reading →