2011 Season DC-R Group Kick-Off @ LivingSocial

Hello everyone,

After a holiday hiatus, we are ready to kick-off the 2011 DC-R Users Group meetup season with great topics and speakers. We're very happy to have LivingSocial (http://www.livingsocial.com), one of the hottest startups in the DC area, host us in their downtown DC offices.

LivingSocial is the social commerce leader behind LivingSocial Deals, a group buying program that invites people and their friends to save up to 90 percent each day at their favorite restaurants, spas, sporting events, hotels and other local attractions in major cities. LivingSocial has an extensive user base of more than 85 million, and is headquartered in Washington, D.C. LivingSocial is looking for great data talent. More information here (http://hire.jobvite.com/CompanyJobs/Careers.aspx?k=Job&c=qD09Vfwr&j=oo8BVfwM).

Program for the evening:
7:00 - 7:30 Networking

7:30 - 9:00 Program

Welcome and introduction.

"Munging data". Brian Danielak (http://twitter.com/#%21/Capbri) and Abhijit Dasgupta (http://twitter.com/#!/webbedfeet)will talk about using Hadley Wickham's (http://twitter.com/#!/hadleywickham) reshape (http://www.had.co.nz/reshape)package for melting and casting data in several different ways with reshape, which can be a lot faster than plyr (http://www.had.co.nz/plyr)with the similar flexibility. Brian is also working on developing the next generation of an R package that deals with graphical analysis of variance.

Interactive Q&A discussion

9:00 - ????? post meetup beeR

Hope to see you there!