[PLUG] Portland R User Group October Meeting Announcement

Brian Diggs fattalehdiggs at speakeasy.net
Sat Oct 16 15:11:46 UTC 2010


October Portland R User Group meeting
http://www.meetup.com/portland-r-user-group/calendar/14853498/

October 21, 2010, 7:15pm
OHSU Center for Health & Healing
Room 3171 (Conference Room 1A)
(location details at end)

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Main talk:
"Spatial Analysis with R"
Ben Stabler

Lightning talk:
"R Therapy"
Everyone

Social hour (following talks):
Le Hana Japanese Bar & Grill
3500 SW River Parkway

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Talk descriptions:

"Spatial Analysis with R"

Ben will share some recent work he did using R for spatial data
visualization.  He will discuss how to read shapefiles and rasters
into R, how to join and process data related to those shapes, and how
to generate dynamic animated map products.

"R Therapy"

Do you have a problem that you are trying to solve with R that you
just can't get to work? A model you can't seem to specify? A graph you
can't tweak? A dataset you can't tame? An interface you can't bridge?
A bug you can't trap?  Well, try some group theRapy.

Bring your laptop, problem, and/or dataset and we will try to tackle
the problems you are having as a group. If there are multiple
problems, we can break into smaller groups. Don't have any current
unresolved problems of your own? Then maybe you can help someone else,
or at least learn from their problems before they are yours.

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Speaker bios:

Ben Stabler is a Supervising Modeler at Parsons Brinckerhoff. Parsons
Brinckerhoff "provides strategic consulting, planning, engineering,
and program and construction management services to both public and
private sector clients ... in multiple market sectors, including
transportation, power, buildings/facilities, water/wastewater,
environmental, and urban/community development."

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Location information:

OHSU's Center for Health & Healing
South Waterfront district
http://www.ohsu.edu/xd/about/visiting/locations/chh.cfm
3303 SW Bond Avenue
Between Moody Ave. and Bond Ave., Whitaker St. and Gibbs St.
At the base of the Portland Aerial Tram
Streetcar stops: SW Moody & Gibbs (coming from downtown)
    OHSU Commons (heading to downtown)
On-street parking available
Bicycle parking around Gibbs and Bond near base of Tram

Room 3171 (Conference Room 1A)
Take elevator to the 3rd floor, follow signs to the Conference Center

Le Hana
3500 SW River Parkway
Corner of River Parkway and Curry Street
One block south and one block east of the Center for Health & Healing





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