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

[Grig Gheorghiu]

Just so you know, we're shooting for a proper joint meeting with the R
group for January 2011. Please think about topics to present ;-)

Grig

On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 11:16 AM, Grig Gheorghiu
<grig.gheorghiu at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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