The Colorado Springs Open Source Software Meetup Group Monthly Meetup

AGENDA
6:00 - 6:30 PM - Food, Drinks & Networking
6:30 - 6:35 PM - Announcements
6:35 - 7:15 PM - Basic Concepts
7:15 - 7:20 PM - Break
7:20 - 8:40 PM - Main Speaker
8:40 - 8:55 PM - Door Prize Drawings

MAIN TOPIC ABSTRACT
The R Programming Language

From Wikipedia, R is a free software programming language and a software environment for statistical computing and graphics. The R language is widely used among statisticians and data miners for developing statistical software and data analysis. Polls and surveys of data miners are showing R's popularity has increased substantially in recent years.

In the upcoming Tech Talk, I’ll go over basic R programming with some examples. Specifically, I will cover performance metrics code that I developed while at Oracle Corporation in order to determine with some statistical certainty that a code change in Weblogic JMS had a positive impact on performance. I will discuss how to embed R code within Bash, Perl or Python scripts.

BASIC CONCEPTS ABSTRACT

Basic Shell Scripting

Brian will discuss basic shell scripting using bash to help facilitate understanding of the main topic of the R programming language.

SPEAKER BIOGRAPHY
Brian Marshall

Dr. Brian Marshall, Brian for short, currently works for Guidewire Software based out of San Mateo (San Francisco) as a Senior Implementation Architect. Guidewire specializes in Software for Insurance Companies and has three flagship products: PolicyCenter, BillingCenter and ClaimCenter.

Prior to working at Guidewire Software, Brian worked at Oracle on the Weblogic Messaging and Infrastructure Team and before that for Lockheed Martin at the X-Lab where he co-developed an Integration Framework that is widely used in MDA (Missile Defense Agency) projects

OUR SPONSORS

Website Sponsor: Homeland Security Careers (https://www.meetup.com/csopensource/)
Food Sponsor: Systems Engineering Services (http://sesc.com)
Door Prize Sponsors: Jetbrains (http://www.jetbrains.com) - Software license (Several products to choose from)
Book Sponsor: OReilly Publishing (http://www.oreilly.com) - Technical books