Appsterdam Guru Session: Data mining with R
- December 15, 2012 · 10:00 AM
Appsterdam Guru Sessions are informal, very hands-on workshops to share a technology or a technique between App Makers. Explanation from your peers, open discussion and practical experience are key to these sessions.
At this session, Vincent D. Warmerdam and Marcel Boersma will share two things: an introduction to data mining and an introduction to R. Data mining is an exiting field that is rapidly growing. In this session we'll discuss some basic machine learning methods and some data related tricks. After this guru session you'll have:
- Learned basic usage of R methods, objects and libraries.
- Ripped a summary of your data in two lines of code.
- Experimented with different ways of plotting.
- Visualized the best way to feed a chicken
- Find a hack such that you can buy cheap plane tickets
- Predict the price of a house in the future
- Written a script that recognizes pixels on an input field in order to recognize a digit. (so you'll even learn a bit about artificial intelligence)
Agenda:
10:00-10:30: Doors open, participants sign in
10:30-12:30: Session starts - Intro exercises
12:30-13:30: Lunch break
13:30-17:00: Session continues - deeper exercises
17:00 onwards: Pizza and beer!
This session is meant for anyone who is interested in knowing a bit more about data mining. Before the session you'll need to have R installed. If you want to bring your own data to play with instead or have an expert looked at you are encouraged to bring it along with you.
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Axel Roest
Thanks. I didn't show up, because my spot was meant as an rsvp for someone else, who couldn't access the meetup website (don't ask). Unfortunately he also didn't show up today. Shucks
December 15
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Vincent Damian Warmerdam
There is a new session up btw which might spark your interest ...
January 5
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Matt Feigal
Hi Devjyoti, We'd much rather see you there than stop you because of some paypal problem! So no problem, if you can't pay online still show up and pay at the door.
December 13
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Vincent Damian Warmerdam
Exited to see so many people signing up! 10 people after only one day.
December 5
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Vincent Damian Warmerdam
Just to keep everyone enthusiastic, I've parsed some data from the world ticket center and skyscanner. At the end of this class, you will mine this data to unravel when the best time is to buy plane tickets ... we will probably also have a twitter dataset ready for you to play with ... if there are any requests please let me know =)
December 4
21 attended
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Matt Feigal +1
Event Host
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Yann +1
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Marius Rugan
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A former member
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A former member
Your organizer's refund policy for Appsterdam Guru Session: Data mining with R
Refunds are not offered for this Meetup.
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