2. Meetup of the Berlin R Users Group

10th anniversary event of NoSQL matters. Adding several new topics to the theme and rebranding to distributed matters. The conference covers topics like: Distributed systems, Microservices, DCOS, Cloud Management, Database solutions, DevOp operations and, of course, NoSQL and Big Data.

Training day (18.09.15) -> http://bit.ly/BERtrainigs Conference day (19.09.15) -> http://bit.ly/BER_Home

Conference day will be opened by the legendary KYLE KINGSBURY (@aphyr - the author of “Call Me Maybe” project). Followed by Salvatore Sanfilippo (Pivotal), Charity Majors (Parse / Facebook), Oliver Hardt (Bitly), Joe Nash (Braintree/PayPal) and more.

Get your special discounted Early Bird ticket (1 day conf) or Early Bird Combi (training day + conf) until 26th July 2015 -> http://bit.ly/BERtickets

After 26th July use the code "BerlinR_UG_2015"" to get 20% off.

!! Raffle for 1 FREE TICKET for BerlinRUG members -> send message to Konstantin by 31st July to be eligible !!

Effective Applications of the R Language

2015 Keynote Speakers: Alex Bellos, Joe Cheng, Dirk Eddelbuettel and Hannah Fry

Register at http://www.earl-conference.com/ and follow @earlconf

More stats and insights in excellent blog post by Torben Tvedebrink (chair of local committee, useR! 2015)

Joe Rickert (Microsoft): "R User Groups - Building Community at the Local Level"

What does it take for a group of people to be a community?

• Intentional involvement
• A shared set of positive goals
• Interactions that take place over time
• Committed members
• Contributions to the general welfare

Thomas Lumley (R Core): "R is a free software community for statistical computing and graphics"