6. Meetup of Berlin R Users Group - "Method Comparison Studies (MCS)"

2015-12-17 @ Hypoport (Berlin, DE)

Konstantin Greger

Schedule for today

Time What's happening
18:30 doors open
19:15 Konstantin Greger (@kogreger): "Welcome and Brief Introduction"
19:20 Jens Hanack (@hypoport): "Welcome to Hypoport"
19:25 Open Mic!
19:30 Kevin O'Brien (University of Limerick; @kobriendublin): "Method Comparison Studies with R: A whistlestop tour of methods and techniques for one of the most commonly encountered problems in sciences"
from ~20:45 socializing & networking
22:00 doors close

Number of group members

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Call for Presenters

time series analysis, own packages, modelling count variables, binary logistic modelling with R, data manipulation with dplyr (with magrittr), data visualization with ggvis, making maps with R, introduction to survival analysis with R, logistic regression modelling with R - beyond binary (multinomial and ordinal logistic regression), shiny dashboard, propensity score matching studies, dplyr, ggvis, possibly some of the work I've done with web scraping, network analysis, information visualization, maps and spatial analysis in R, R in the social sciences, basic introduction to dplyr, data mining in R, ODE based models of phytoplankton growth, overview of glmnet, applications of using R in my job environment, R introductionary course, writing functions in R is actually fairly easy, R + knitr + LaTeX: much stronger than Office Word (claim and proof), *apply is the best thing since sliced bread, why you should write a package - and how, modelling election outcomes, discrete choice modeling, bayesian statistics, quantitative marketing/economics, reproducibility in environmental modelling

Just contact me: kogreger@gmail.com

Important Links

Our group sponsors

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Open Mic!

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Schedule for today

Time What's happening
18:30 doors open
19:15 Konstantin Greger (@kogreger): "Welcome and Brief Introduction"
19:20 Jens Hanack (@hypoport): "Welcome to Hypoport"
19:25 Open Mic!
19:30 Kevin O'Brien (University of Limerick; @kobriendublin): "Method Comparison Studies with R: A whistlestop tour of methods and techniques for one of the most commonly encountered problems in sciences"
from ~20:45 socializing & networking
22:00 doors close

A neRdy gReeting

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Thanks, Berry!