Hi David, I've only just joined the list. I would be very interested in attending the meeting. I'm not sure I could give a whole talk, but I can certainly participate in discussion about using R to clean up and make sense of dirty datasets. I have more deadends and failed attempts than sucesses, but there may be some interest in what doesn't work. I have also learned a few little quirks about some of the Government of Canada data hosted at data.gc.ca that may be useful. Daniel Buijs
On 2014-05-23, at 6:00 AM, r-ug-ottawa-request at r-project.org wrote:
Send R-UG-Ottawa mailing list submissions to r-ug-ottawa at r-project.org To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit
https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-ug-ottawa or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to r-ug-ottawa-request at r-project.org You can reach the person managing the list at r-ug-ottawa-owner at r-project.org When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of R-UG-Ottawa digest..." Today's Topics: 1. A Show of Hands -- Summary (David Bissessar) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Thu, 22 May 2014 16:50:30 -0400 From: David Bissessar <david_bissessar at hotmail.com> To: "r-ug-ottawa at r-project.org" <r-ug-ottawa at r-project.org> Subject: [OGRUG] A Show of Hands -- Summary Message-ID: <BAY178-W15E6C816AA561C1F62173C933F0 at phx.gbl> Content-Type: text/plain Hi All, Thanks for your feedback. A point form summary to capture input at this point: 1) 16 people have confirmed interest 2) We have not yet reached outside of the OGRUG mailing list to the meetup, the Universities, and other Agencies/Corporations. 3) Number of Possible Presenters: 7-9 4) Subject Areas of interest: a. The UG can be a forum for pre-presentations of conference papers or research b. Contrast, Synergy R with other languages/environments (examples: SAS, Python, Hadoop, RDBMS, GIS ) c. Case Studies: R Techniques as applied to Statistic Problems d. R Topics 1) Packaging 2) Data Mining 3) Data Munging 4) Etc? e. Case Studies in Projects (Commercial, Academic, Volunteer, Open Source, ...) 1) Trees Canopy Dataset 2) CRAN Packages people maybe active in 5) Choices of Venues: Many possible choices of locations: a. Universities: Any one of Carleton, U of O, Universite du Quebec, possible also to cycle through all three in turn b. Area Companies (caution regarding possible bias that slips into the users group in those cases) c. Public locations (Pub, etc) (Preference going to Universities at this point) 4.2 Possible sponsorship through Revolution Analytics. ( This is one of the reasons we needed a show of hands) Looks like we have a pretty good starting point? Please feel free to add items. Regards, David ----------------------------- On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 2:23 PM, Bissessar, David wrote: Hi All, We are considering re-starting regular events for the Ottawa-Gatineau R User's Group and we hoped to get your input -- To help us get a feel for the level of interest, could you send a quick note if you would be interested in participating in regular User's Group meetings? As well, if you have a special area of interest or if you'd be willing to make a brief presentation to the user's group, please do let me know. Depending on the level of interest, we'd take next steps, which might involve finding a sponsor, a location to meet and organizing regular presentations. As appropriate, I'll summarize the feedback received to the mailing list. Thanks, David [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ------------------------------ _______________________________________________ R-UG-Ottawa mailing list R-UG-Ottawa at r-project.org https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-ug-ottawa End of R-UG-Ottawa Digest, Vol 31, Issue 10 *******************************************