[socal-piggies] Join meeting with R/data analysis user group @ UCLA in November?

[Adam Bernier]

A joint Python/R meeting sounds fun.
I am interested in learning more about R; especially WRT data visualization.

I currently use matplotlib for plotting, but Szilard makes an enticing
point when he says that R allows you to visualize data in very few
lines of code.

On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 10:37 AM, Grig Gheorghiu
<grig.gheorghiu at gmail.com> wrote:
> I forwarded a message from Szilard Pafka last week about their R/data
> analysis user group meetings. The next one, on November 17th, is about
> "Software tools for data analysis; The future of R".
>
> http://www.meetup.com/LAarea-R-usergroup/calendar/15077745/?from=list&offset=0
>
> Szilard sent me an email saying:
>
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> We have them [the meetings] at UCLA as my fellow co-organizer is head
> of Stats Dept. He's a great guy with a very strong computational view
> of statistics/data analysis. We could do the joint meeting there.
> Would that work for you guys?
>
> I think we have quite a few Python users in our group, I'll ask next
> time and/or in a survey question (I'll also recommend your group). Our
> next meeting (October) we'll have a short talk on RPy2 the Python
> interface for making calls to R and also on text processing/mining.
> Also our November meeting (which I just posted this morning) might be
> of some interest to you guys. We'll discuss tools for data analysis,
> but more importantly we'll decide what tools we'd like to hear about
> in subsequent talks. I think Python, Numpy/Scipy are all excellent
> candidates :) So maybe this is how we can have the joint meeting ;)
>
> As for myself, I've been looking at Python very recently as I have
> some text processing problem R is not the best for. Also, I started
> rewriting some of my "glue" (or cron) shell scripts in Python, feels
> much better ;) R is great for data analysis mainly because of the
> 2000+ statistics libraries which allows to explore/visualize data, fit
> models etc. in 2-3 lines a code. The R language itself is not the
> brightest and looking at Python helps me better see the problems.
>
> How about you guys? Many interested in data analysis in your group?
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>
> So....would you guys be interested in a joint meeting at UCLA in November?
>
> Grig
>
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