Atlanta (Beginner) R Users August Meetup

Welcome to our August Meetup! This month we are focusing our talks on people who are new to R or are looking to find ways to break in! My goal is that the talks will be informative to everyone but the focus will be on getting started with R. The schedule is as follows:

7:00 - 7:20: Food and Welcome
7:20 - 8:00: Getting From The Basics to Linear Models in R - Matthew Turner
8:00 - 8:35: Replacing Your Excel Workflows with R - Matt Mills

Speaker Bios:

• Matthew Turner is a research scientist in the department of psychology, and the research and technology mentor for the Center for Information, Modeling and Simulation; both at Georgia State University in Atlanta. He holds master’s degrees in applied mathematics (MA, Cal State University) and Theoretical and Applied Statistics (MS, Rutgers University), with an emphasis on mathematical modeling and statistical computing. He is also trained in the social sciences and psychology (MA, PhD; University of California) with research work in EEG, perception, psychiatric disorders, text mining, machine learning, and terrorism analysis.

• Matt Mills is the organizer of the R User Group and is really looking for more speakers ;) If you know anyone, including yourself, that would like to present at an upcoming meetup please let me know!

Looking forward to seeing you all there!