Vowpal Wabbit, Text Mining and Analysis with R and Using R with Hadoop

We are very pleased to announce that Jeff Allard, a data scientist with Fifth Third Bank, will be presenting on and demonstrating the open-source tool Vowpal Wabbit, and Shannon McCormick, a graduate student in statistics at GVSU, will be presenting on and demonstrating Text Mining and Analysis with R. We will also have a demonstration of using R with Hadoop.

Schedule:

6:00 - 6:15 PM Networking
6:15 - 7:00 PM Jeff Allard - Vowpal Wabbit
7:00 - 7:15 PM Pizza
7:15 - 8:00 PM Shannon McCormick - Text Mining and Analysis with R and Tuhin Mitra - Usage of R with Hadoop

We have room SB382 at Calvin College. SB is short for Science Building. The map showing the location is at:

http://www.calvin.edu/map/index.htm?building=SB

Please note that the best parking space will be on the left or the west side of the Science Building.

Looking forward to seeing you there!

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