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Experiences with using SAS and R in insurance and banking

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

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Getting into shape for the sport of data science: Screencast of talk by Jeremy Howard at Melbourne R Users

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

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Video Introduction to R Packages by Rory Winston – Melbourne R Users February 2011

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

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Taking R to the Limit: Large Datasets; Predictive modeling with PMML and ADAPA

During the first part of our meeting, Ryan Rosario presented on the topic of large datasets in R. Video, slides and code of the talk “Taking R to the Limit: Large Datasets” by Ryan Rosario at the Los Angeles area … Continue reading

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How Google and Facebook are using R

This is an older (2009) video from the kickoff meeting of the San Francisco Bay Area R Users Group. It was a panel discussion within the Predictive Analytics World conference. Video courtesy by Ron Fredericks of LectureMaker (click on the … Continue reading

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Use Rapache: It Works!

A half hour lecture by Jeffery Horner on RApache.

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useR! 2010 – Local R User Group Panel

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Advanced debugging techniques in R

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Map-reduce in R with Amazon EMR

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Taking R to the Limit: Parallelization

Video, slides and code of the talk “Taking R to the Limit: Parallelization” by Ryan Rosario at the Los Angeles area R Users Group in July 2010 as follows. Slides: R code: here. Video: If you have a question to … Continue reading

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