Mini R hackathon

A two hour whirlwind of R hacking!

Want to find the solution to a terribly cool question using publicly available data? Want to propose a question and publicize (your) data? Want to learn more about R!

Come and hack it out with the Montreal R User Group (https://www.meetup.com/Montreal-R-User-Group/)!

We would love for you to propose data and a related question. Prize for best data and question! You will have ~ 5 minutes to present your data and question. If you do so, we ask that you send us a pull request on our repository on github (https://github.com/MontrealRUserGroup/April2013_R_Mini_Hackathon) with a folder containing (or email (montrealrusergroup@gmail.com) and we can help get your data online and into R):

a basic script to access the online data from R (so that most of the time is spent playing with the data not scrapping/getting it into R) a pdf of your presentation (max 5 slides) containing a relevant question to be asked of the data (so that we may combine all presentations for smooth sailing)
Providing data is not required for attendance, though the more data presenters the better. You can also come to hack on the provided data and question or to see how people work with R.

Tentative schedule:
6:00 Presentation of data and associated question
6:30 Break out into groups and hack
7:30 Presentation of some of the solutions and tricks