Greater Cleveland R Group

How to Find Pizza in New York City

February 20, 2013 · 6:30 PM
John Carroll University

Jared Lander will walk through an analysis of customer review data to determine what variables influence the popularity of pizza shops in New York City. Learn about exploratory data analysis procedures using ggplot2 and building and analyzing models in R.

Jared is the co-organizer of the New York Open Statistical Programming Meetup. He is also the owner of JP Lander Consulting, an adjunct professor at Columbia University, and the author of an upcoming book, R for Non-Statisticians. Learn more about Jared from his website - http://www.jaredlander.com/about/.

Meeting will take place in the Donahue Auditorium of the Dolan Science Center. Attendance will be open to the greater Cleveland statistical community. John Carroll University's chapter of the honorary mathematics society, Pi Mu Epsilon, will be co-hosting the event. Food and drink will be provided.

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Noemi

Unfortunately, as I am not originally from Cleveland and I don't have a GPS, John Carroll University proved impossible to find. That traffic circle is unpleasant-- trying to get off at North Park Boulevard, twice I found myself at the Hathaway Brown school. Though at first glance, at night, it may look large enough to be a small University, it is unfortunately a private school for children. It's a shame that there wasn't better signage for John Carroll, or I would be there enjoying the talk now. I'm sorry I missed it!

0 · February 20, 2013
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- Nicholas H.
  
  Sorry you couldn't find JCU, Noemi. I'll try to leave my number in case this happens next time. I'll send out Jared's slides.
  
  0 · February 20, 2013
- Sumit S.
  
  I had the same problem, drove around and came back. My GPS (in-built, 2009 car) did not recognize the road. And the cell phone gps was not good enough either. Can we find a fixed space for meetings ?
  
  0 · February 20, 2013
- Nicholas H.
  
  Hi Sumit. Sorry you also could not find John Carroll. We alternate meetings at Precision Dialogue and John Carroll to accommodate members from both sides of Cleveland. This may change as attendance increases, but until then I'll find more detailed instructions to the meeting locations. Thanks
  
  0 · February 21, 2013
- Joe
  
  Jared gave a phenomenal talk, not only technically valuable, but entertaining and funny.
  
  0 · February 21, 2013
- Joe
  
  Here is how to get to JCU: take either Fairmount blvd or Warrensville Center rd until you reach the traffic circle at the intersection of the two roads. Go around the circle until you see a small plaza with Bikram yoga, Huntington bank and an Irish trading store in it. Follow the road in front of the Irish trading store, which is on the North side of the small shopping plaza. Drive about a block until you see a small fork in the road. Take the fork to the left towards a large security shack and get a parking pass from the guard. Park at either the right or left parking lots right in front of you. The Science center is the large building right behind the security shack. The presentation was in a large lecture hall in the middle of the building. Look for the group of people older than 22 eating pizza.
  
  1 · February 21, 2013
- Tom S.
  
  Regarding directions to JCU: We recently changed our street address. The new address is 1 John Carroll Blvd., University Heights, OH 44118 the old address was: 20700 North Park Blvd., University Heights, OH 44118 The old address might work better in GPS programs until they catch up. I apologize for the confusion. Tom
  
  0 · February 22, 2013
- Omar De la Cruz C.
  
  20700 North Park might work better for GPS, but once you get there, the street sign says John Carroll Blvd.
  
  0 · February 22, 2013
Rob L.

Hey all, sorry I missed it! Sounds phenominal.

Are you able to give out copies of Jared's slides or code? I'm super interested in this.

See you all soon,
Rob

0 · February 22, 2013
Bryan L.

A really fun introduction to R.

0 · February 21, 2013
Nicholas H.

Great presentation. I loved that Jared went from his presentation to giving an overview of RStudio, knitr, and Pandoc!

0 · February 20, 2013
Omar De la Cruz C.

Jared is a friend and colleague, and a great speaker. Looking forward to his talk.

0 · February 14, 2013