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

[Howard B. Golden]

I like this idea a lot. I will plan to attend the R meeting whether or not it's 
a joint meeting.

Howard


----- Original Message ----
> From: Adam Bernier <adam.c.bernier at gmail.com>
> To: SoCal Python Interest Group <socal-piggies at lists.idyll.org>
> Sent: Mon, October 18, 2010 10:50:12 AM
> Subject: Re: [socal-piggies] Join meeting with R/data analysis user group @ 
>UCLA in November?
> 
> 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:
> >
> > *****************************************
> > 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?
> > *****************************************
> >
> >
> > So....would you guys be interested in a joint meeting at UCLA in November?
> >
> > Grig
> >
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