Durban R Users Group Meetup: Andrie de Vries from Microsoft/Revolution Analytics

We're kicking off the inaugural meeting of the Durban R Users Group with a live video presentation by Andrie de Vries (https://twitter.com/revoandrie) (Senior Programme Manager, R Community Projects at Microsoft / Revolution Analytics).

Andrie will be talking about "Demonstration of using R in the cloud together with Azure Machine Learning". If you've been keeping up with Microsoft's recent contributions to R then you'll know that this is going to be an interesting talk.

We'll also have Bruce Page (http://ukzn.academia.edu/BPage) (University of KwaZulu-Natal, School of Life Sciences) talking about "An Introduction to Spatial Analysis in R", which will cover using the T-LoCoH (http://tlocoh.r-forge.r-project.org/) package for tracking space/time data. Bruce is an recognised expert on monitoring the movements and changes in home ranges of wild animals.

Andrew Collier will give a talk entitled "From Klueless to Kaggle in 15 Minutes" which will demonstrate how you can get rapidly up to speed on Data Analysis and Predictive Modelling in R.

Date: Wednesday, 24 February 2016

Time: 6:00PM to 8:00PM

Venue: The Green Door