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

[Grig Gheorghiu]

The November meeting is already scheduled, but please plan to attend
it if interested. We could have a real joint meeting, where Piggies
could present too, at a later time.

Grig

On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 11:08 AM, Howard B. Golden
<howard_b_golden at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 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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