3. Meetup of Berlin R Users Group - "R and the Crowd"

2015-09-24 @ Zalando Tech (Berlin, DE)

Konstantin Greger

Schedule for today

Time What's happening
19:00 doors open
19:15 Konstantin Greger (@kogreger): "Welcome and Brief Introduction"
19:20 Hayley Baldwin (@ZalandoTech): "Welcome to Zalando Tech"
19:25 Open Mic!
19:30 Michael Rustler (Kompetenzzentrum Wasser Berlin): "Creating a Crowd Based Central Knowledge Hub for Reproducible Research with R"
19:50 Tim Vogelsang (@TimVogelsang, iversity.org): "Prototyping with R shiny: Video and Quiz Analysis in MOOCs"
from ~20:20 socializing & networking
21:00 doors close

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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
19:00 doors open
19:15 Konstantin Greger (@kogreger): "Welcome and Brief Introduction"
19:20 Hayley Baldwin (@ZalandoTech): "Welcome to Zalando Tech"
19:25 Open Mic!
19:30 Michael Rustler (Kompetenzzentrum Wasser Berlin): "Creating a Crowd Based Central Knowledge Hub for Reproducible Research with R"
19:50 Tim Vogelsang (@TimVogelsang, iversity.org): "Prototyping with R shiny: Video and Quiz Analysis in MOOCs"
from ~20:20 socializing & networking
21:00 doors close