Connecticut R User Group starts 2013

I can not believe the Connecticut R User Group is already in its second year. I started the group mostly because I did not want to have to go to all the way into New York or Boston just to connect with other R users. The group has been more successful than I had hope in its first year. We have had a host of great talks, the group has grown to over 70 members. If you are in Connecticut especially the New Haven area I hope to see you at our next meeting.

NYC R user/Predictive Analytics Meetup on May 12

Last night at the AOL Headquarters in NYC Max Kuhn of Pfizer presented his Caret Package. There were over 100 people in attendance. It is a great package that is often used in Predictive Analytics contests like Kaggle. A copy of his slides are are on the Meetup site here. In fact the last four talks have been great. If you are newer to these Predictive Analytics Contests start with Puniyani's slides, followed by Max's and then to then on to Alex Lin and John Myles White. This is a superb group that attracts great presenters on some really cool topics. Max will be doing a class predictive analytics in R on October 16th and 17th at the New York City Predictive Analytics World.