People who love scatter plots & connecting dots

by Michael E. Driscoll | February 19, 2009


We hosted the first Dataviz Salon SF on Tuesday night, with lightning talks by boredom cop Shane Booth, dataviz wiz Lee Byron , computational journalist Brad Stenger, data wrangler Pete Skomoroch , and any/all data enthusiast Brendan O’Connor .

I was going to blog all about it — but Tom Carden of Stamen Design already has a great write-up.

… Dataspora invited a few people to a Dataviz Salon yesterday evening. Mike and I went along and huddled in a brick-built basement in SoMa to listen to the following:

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How Google and Facebook are using R

by Michael E. Driscoll | February 19, 2009


(March 26th Update: Video now available)
Last night, I moderated our Bay Area R Users Group kick-off event with a panel discussion entitled “The R and Science of Predictive Analytics”, co-located with the Predictive Analytics World conference here in SF.

The panel comprised of four recognized R users from industry:

  • Bo Cowgill, Google
  • Itamar Rosenn, Facebook
  • David Smith, Revolution Computing
  • Jim Porzak, The Generations Network (and Co-Chair of our R Users Group)

The panelists were asked to explain how they use R for predictive analytics within their firms, its strengths and weaknesses as a tool, and provide a case study. What follows is my summary with comments.

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