Denver R User Group

Our meetup is designed to bring together all of the R users along the Front Range of Colorado. We welcome R newbies as well as the experience hacker. All backgrounds are encouraged to join the group -- life sciences, social sciences, etc.

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Featured Meetup

Bayesian statistics in R
- Tue Feb 21
  7:00 PM
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- 68 attending
- 1 comment
UC - Denver

1250 14th St, Denver, CO (map)
This talk will be a basic introduction to Bayesian estimation through a serious of illustrations with a linear modelling problem. In particular, a little of the mathematics and a lot of the estimation behind the Metropolis-Hastings algorithm and Gibbs sampling (the two most common Bayesian estimation methodologies) will be compared to OLS and... Learn more

Hosted by: Melissa Santos (Co-Organizer), and Matt Parker (Co-Organizer)
- Matt Parker:
  Of course, we need somebody who actually KNOWS this stuff first. Any volunteers out there? Know of anyone we could recruit?
  
  Posted August 24, 2011 at 5:00 PM
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Bayesian Data Analysis in R
- Tue Apr 17
  6:30 PM
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- 28 attending
- 0 comments
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Coming soon!
Speaker: Joshua French, Assistant Professor of Statistics at UC-Denver Title: Bayesian Data Analysis in R Abstract: Bayesian statistical methods are becoming... Learn more

Hosted by: Ryan Elmore (Organizer)

Recent Meetups

January 25 at 6:30 PM, 75 R Users attended
R and Big Data - Combined Meetup
They rated it 4.505 (5 ratings)

We are very excited to have our first Meetup combining the R and Big Data communities in Denver! Please note the new location, earlier start time and that there will be... Learn more
December 13, 2011 at 7:00 PM, 13 R Users attended
Winter Lightning Talks
They rated it 5.004 (4 ratings)

Greetings, Rgonauts! Instead of the traditional long-format presentation, we'd like to give lightning talks a try in December. This is the perfect opportunity to present... Learn more
November 15, 2011 at 7:00 PM, 25 R Users attended
Intro to the googleVis package
They rated it 4.008 (8 ratings)

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Enjoyed being introduced to the googleVis package. ...

—Theodore Van Rooy

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Can't wait to start playing with googleVis. ...

—Peter DeWitt
October 18, 2011 at 7:00 PM, 29 R Users attended
Reducing Computational Expense
They rated it 5.005 (5 ratings)

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This was very practical for someone at my level. The presentation was clear and organized. ...

—Cathy Durso

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Very informative. Desire more sessions like this.

—Mark Labovitz
September 14, 2011 at 7:00 PM, 17 R Users attended
Using GRASS and R for Landscape Regionalization through PAM Cluster Analysis
They rated it 4.503 (3 ratings)

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It was really great talk

—Alemu Tadesse

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wonderful to see R in an application not purely statistical. great presentation and good insight on the use of dbf for moving data in R.

—Peter DeWitt