We use both SAS and R

Matthew Joyce (System Engineer at SAS) and Dayne Sorvisto (Integration Consultant) are kindly sharing their expertise and experiences with us.

1. Creating an Open Analytics Ecosystem (by Matthew Joyce): He will discuss the importance of building a scalable and open analytics platform within an organization. Organizations are often challenged today by the variety of languages and applications to choose from and need to easily deploy models into production. I will discuss how to leverage the power of open source by giving you the ability to able to create models in multiple languages, and executing those models on a single enterprise platform.

2. Professional Data Analysis with R, SAS, Python and Beyond (by Dayne Sorvisto): This talk will primarily be an introduction to SAS programming for R users. The focus of the talk will be on using SAS in the workplace and writing professional code. The goal of the first half of the talk is to show how common data manipulation and modeling tasks can be accomplished in different ways in both R and SAS. The trade-offs of each language will be discussed with reference to real-world business problems. In the second half of the talk, Dayne will share some personal experiences using other popular alternatives to R like Python. The talk will finish with a fun demo using his favorite machine learning library TensorFlow.

This event is supported by the Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences (https://www.pims.math.ca/) and the Cenovus Energy (http://www.cenovus.com/).

Note: The event starts from 6 PM with pizza and soda for social networking. The actual talk starts from 6:30 PM. The event will be at the university.