"Official" November 2014 Meeting

Note: we have a change of venue!!

Agenda:
6:30 PM - Food and networking
7:00 PM - Announcements
7:05 PM - Noah Gift: R, Social Media and Sports Data
7:30 PM - Stephen Elston: Using R with Microsoft Azure
Machine Learning
8:00 PM - Matt Dowle: A look at What's new in data.table

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Using R with Microsoft Azure Machine Learning
Stephen F. Elston, Ph.D.
Managing Director, Quantia Analytics, LLC.

Abstract
Recently, Microsoft launched the Azure Machine Learning cloud platform. The Azure ML cloud platform is an easy to use and powerful environment for data transformation and machine learning. R scripts integrate with built in Azure ML modules and services on the cloud platform. In addition, algorithms running in Azure ML are accessible as web services.

I plan to cover the following topics:

1. Data I/O between Azure ML and the R Scripts.
2. Editing and debugging R code for Azure ML.
3. R graphics with Azure ML.
4. Data transformation in Azure ML and R.
5. Regression example in Azure ML with R.
6. Publishing Azure ML models as a web service.