Zurich R-User Meetup: Spatial Data Analysis

After a long break, Zurich R-User Meetup is finally back. We will meet for a virtual webinar with three speakers. The virtual venue is kindly hosted by cynkra. Following these presentations and q&a, stay on for a virtual chat!

The in person Apero in small groups is cancelled due the COVID situation in Zurich!

You can join us on Thursday night with the following link:
https://zhrusergroup.cynkra.dev/2020-10-29
Note: For a stable connection, we recommend to use Chrome.

Program

5.45 pm virtual doors open
6pm - 7pm talks (see below)
~7pm Are you hiring? Looking for an R related job? ... or organising an interesting event? Take the mic for one minute. (DM us if you need a slot!) continued by a virtual mixR/apero (byo beer)
CANCELLED: 7:30pm meeting at Zurich HB for in person mixR/apero in small groups.

### Spatial Cross Validation in the Presence of a Class Imbalance and Spatial Heterogeneity: an Example from Species Distribution Modelling
Ben Fitzpatrick - Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL, ETH Zürich

### Spatially consistent postprocessing of probabilistic cloud cover forecasts
Stephan Hemri - MeteoSwiss

### SPARQL with R
Katharina Kaelin, Statistisches Amt, Kanton Zürich

### Informal Apero (aka MixR)
The in person Apero is cancelled!