Within 2 weeks on Friday, May 24, The RBelgium R user group is holding its next Regular meeting in Leuven for which this is the schedule: ** Jonathan Cornelissen - DataMind Discover DataMind, a new online learning platform for d...
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Massive online data stream mining with R
A few weeks ago, the stream package has been released on CRAN. It allows to do real time analytics on data streams. This can be very usefull if you are working with large datasets which are already hard to put in RAM completely, let alone to build some statistical model on it without getting into RAM problems.
Most of...
bigglm on your big data set in open source R, it just works – similar as in SAS
In a recent post by Revolution Analytics (link & link) in which Revolution was benchmarking their closed source generalized linear model approach with SAS, Hadoop and open source R, they seemed to be pointing out that there is no 'easy' R open source solution which exists for building a poisson regression model on large datasets.
This post is about...
RBelgium meeting on November, 16
Next week on Friday, November 16, the RBelgium R user group is holding its next Regular meeting in Brussels.
This is the schedule of the upcoming RBelgium Regular meeting:
* Graphical User Interface developments around R, including tcltk2 and SciViews - Philippe Grosjean (UMons)
* Using R via the Amazon Cloud - Jean-Baptiste Poullet (stat'Rgy)
* Literature review: R books - Brecht Devleesschauwer (UGent, UCL)
The meeting will take place...
R courses in Belgium
Every year, the Leuven Statistics Research Center (Belgium) is offering short courses for professionals and researchers in statistics and statistical tools.
The following link shows the overview of the courses: http://lstat.kuleuven.be/consulting/shortcourses/ENcourse%20overview.htm or get it here in pdf: http://lstat.kuleuven.be/consulting/shortcourses/BRO_LSTAT_2012-2013.pdf
This year, BNOSAC is presenting the course on Advanced R Programming Topics, which will be held on Oktober 18-19.
This course...
read.odbc.ffdf & read.dbi.ffdf for fetching large corporate SQL data
Get your large SQL data in ff swiftly
The ff package is great when you are working with large data in R. Data in corporate environments are usually not that large that a Hadoop system is needed to handle it but the data are mostly large enough to make R choke on it's RAM. T...
R package ETLUtils @ CRAN – easy loading into ffdf
The R package ETLUtils is now available for download at it's CRAN repository.It's a package which facilitates the ETL in situations where you need to interact with SQL databases in a corporate environment. Basically it currently focusses on t...
Zero Inflated Models and Generalized Linear Mixed Models with R.
Zuur, Saveliev, Ieno (2012).
