The worldwide R user conference, useR! 2012, will take place this year June 12-15 in Nashville, Tennessee. In addition to the regular program of invited and contributed talks, a highlight of every useR! is the pre-conference tutorials: hand-on, half-day in-depth expert-led sessions with a focused on a specific area of methodology with R. This...
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Hadley Wickham goes behind the scenes on ggplot2
Hadley Wickham, creator of the ggplot2 packages for R (as well as several others) will present a webinar on February 8 going behind the scenes of the popular graphics package. If you've never used ggplot2 before, this will be a great way to learn about the kinds of charts you can create with it;...
Submit a paper to the R/Finance conference
For anybody using the R language to analyze financial data, the R/Finance conference is the conference of the year. If you have something to share about applied finance with R, the call for papers is now open. The details are below, and the deadline for submissions is January 31, 2012. R/Finance 2012: Applied Finance...
R/Finance 2012 Call for Papers
I'm excited to share the call for papers for the upcoming R/Finance conference. Even if you don't submit a presentation, I hope to see you there!Call for Papers:R/Finance 2012: Applied Finance with RMay 11 and 12, 2012University of Illinois, Chic...
Free ggplot2 webinar from Hadley Wickham
The Orange County R Users Group is hosting a free webinar presented by Hadley Wickham, author of the ggplot2 graphics package for R. The webinar, "Advanced Visualizations in R with Hadley Wickham" is live from 6PM-7PM Pacific Time tomorrow, December 1. You can register at the LinkedIn event page below, as long as there...
Webinar Tomorrow: What’s new in Revolution R Enterprise 5.0
A reminder that Sue Ranney will be presenting the webinar New Features in Revolution R Enterprise 5.0 (Including RevoScaleR) to support Scalable Data Analysis tomorrow (Thursday) at 11AM Pacific time. To whet your appetite, here's another video demonstation of more of the new big data analysis features, including the rxDataStep function to preprocess a...
Webinar Nov 17: What’s new in Revolution R Enterprise 5.0
Revolution R Enterprise 5.0 will be released soon, and Sue Ranney, VP of Development at Revolution Analytics, will host a webinar on Thursday November 17 to get you up to speed on the latest features: Revolution R Enterprise 5.0 is Revolution Analytics’ scalable analytics platform. At its core is Revolution Analytics’ enhanced Distribution of...
Webinar on Portfolio Rebalancing with R and Sybase
R users in the financial industry may be interested in the following webinar hosted by Revolution Analytics' partner Sybase on November 10: Portfolio Rebalancing Using R and Sybase RAP for Intraday Risk Management With volatility and violent intraday swings becoming the new normal, intraday risk controls are now needed to not only reduce your...
Tomorrow: ACM Data Mining Camp at eBay
If you're in the Bay Area, tomorrow would be a great day to head down to San José for the ACM Data Mining Camp. Hundreds of data scientists, data hackers and data miners will be there for a fun "unconference", with talks and practical sessions organized on the spot according to demand. Revolution Analytics...
Webinar Oct 13: Successful uses of R in Banking
On Thursday October 13, Hong Ooi from ANZ (Australia and New Zealand Banking Group) will give a webinar presentation on Successful Uses of R (along with SAS and Excel) in Banking. We've covered Hong's use of R for credit risk analysis here on the blog before, and in next week's webinar he'll take an...
Zero Inflated Models and Generalized Linear Mixed Models with R.
Zuur, Saveliev, Ieno (2012).
