Last Friday the Cologne R user group came together for two talks and a quiz at Eye/o, the company behind Adblock Plus, in Köln-Ehrenfeld. Eye/o were a great host, offering nibbles and drinks to warm up the event and pizza at the end.
Cologne R user meeting at Eye/o The first talk was given by Jiddu Alexander, a physicist turned freelance data scientist.
The 19th Cologne R user group meeting is scheduled for this Friday, 14 October 2016. We have three talks, followed by networking drinks.
Introduction to the tidyverse tools - Jiddu Alexander Performance profiling and improvement in R - Nils Glück Batch processing of R-Scripts with Excel - Klaus Jacobi Venue: Eyeo GmbH, Lichtstraße 25, 50825 Köln
For further details visit our KölnRUG Meetup site.
Last Thursday the Cologne R user group came together again. This time, our two speakers arrived from Bavaria, to talk about Spark and R Server. Introduction to Apache Spark Download slides Dubravko Dulic gave an introduction to Apache Spark and why Spark might be of interest to data scientists using R. Spark is designed for cluster computing, i.
The 17th Cologne R user group meeting is scheduled for this Friday, 26 February 2016. We have two talks, followed by networking drinks.
Introduction to Bayesian Regression Models using Stan with the brms package - Paul-Christian Bürkner (Uni Münster) RKWard: A Graphical User Interface and Integrated Development Environment for Statistical Analysis with R - Meik Michalke (Uni Düsseldorf) Venue: Microsoft Deutschland, Holzmarkt 2a Cologne 50676 DE, Köln
The 16th Cologne R user group meeting is scheduled for this Friday, 4 December 2015 and we have great line up with three talks followed by networking drinks.
Monitoring process change using Bayesian methods (Mick Cooney) A common business problem is to evaluate the effect of a change of process, and this talk will discuss a straightforward approach to this using conjugate priors. Editing R files with DataJoy (Dietmar Janetzko) Brief introduction to the online collaborative data analysis platform DataJoy.
The 15th Cologne R user group meeting is scheduled for this Friday, 18 September 2015 and we have a full agenda with three talks followed by networking drinks.
R in big data pipeline with luigi (Yuki Katoh) R in big data pipeline: Put your awesome R codes into production. Learn how to build solid big data pipeline around it. shinyjs (Paul Viefers) Using JavaScript in shiny, without knowing JavaScript Experience vs Data (Markus Gesmann) How to asses risks with small data sets.
The next Cologne R user group meeting is scheduled for this Friday, 6 June 2015 and we have an exciting agenda with two talks followed by networking drinks.
Data Science at the Commandline (Kirill Pomogajko) An Introduction to RStan and the Stan Modelling Language (Paul Viefers) Please note: Our venue changed! We have outgrown the seminar room at the Institute of Sociology and move to Startplatz, a start-up incubator venue: Im Mediapark, 550670 Köln Drinks and Networking The event will be followed by drinks (Kölsch!
The next Cologne R user group meeting is scheduled for this Friday, 6 March 2015 and we have an exciting agenda with two talks, followed by networking drinks: Using R in Excel via R.NET Günter Faes and Matthias Spix
MS Office and Excel are the ‘de-facto’ standards in many industries. Using R with Excel offers an opportunity to combine the statistical power of R with a familiar user interface.
The next Cologne R user group meeting is scheduled for this Friday, 12 December 2014.
We have an exciting agenda with two talks on Julia and Dynamic Linear Models: Introduction to Julia for R Users Hans Werner Borchers
Julia is a high-performance dynamic programming language for scientific computing, with a syntax that is familiar to users of other technical computing environments (Matlab, Python, R, etc.). It provides a sophisticated compiler, high performance with numerical accuracy, and extensive mathematical function libraries.
The next Cologne R user group meeting is scheduled for this Friday, 12 September 2014.
We have a great agenda with international speakers: Maarten-Jan Kallen: Introduction to Renjin, the R interpreter for the JVM Jonathan Cornelissen, Martijn Theuwissen: DataCamp - An online interactive learning platform for R The event will be followed by drinks and schnitzel at the Lux. For further details visit our KölnRUG Meetup site.
The next Cologne R user group meeting is scheduled for this Friday, 23 May 2014.
To celebrate our 10th meeting we welcome: Andrie de Vries (Revolution Analytics and Co-author of R for Dummies): Taking R to the Enterprise Markus Gesmann: googleVis overview and recent developments Followed by drinks and schnitzel at the Lux.
Further details available on our KölnRUG Meetup site. Please sign up if you would like to come along.
The next Cologne R user group meeting is scheduled for tomorrow, 26 February 2014. We are delighted to welcome: Diego de Castillo: R and databases Kim Kuen Tang: Hands on using R and kdb+ together Frank Celler: ArangoDB (Lightning Talk) Further details and the agenda are available on our KölnRUG Meetup site.
Please sign up if you would like to come along.
Quick reminder: The next Cologne R user group meeting is scheduled for this Friday, 13 December 2013. We are delighted to welcome: Matt Dowle and Arun Srinivasan: Introduction to data.table Thomas Rahlf: Book presentation - Datendesign mit R Further details and the agenda are available on our KölnRUG Meetup site.
Please sign up if you would like to come along. Notes from past meetings are available here.
Quick reminder: The next Cologne R user group meeting is scheduled for this Friday, 18 October 2013. We will discuss and hear about the apply family of functions and the XLConnect package. Further details and the agenda are available on our KölnRUG Meetup site. Please sign up if you would like to come along. Notes from past meetings are available here. Thanks to Revolution Analytics, who sponsors the Cologne R user group as part of their vector programme.
Quick reminder: The next Cologne R user group meeting is scheduled for this Friday, 12 April 2013. We will discuss cluster analysis and shiny. Further details and the agenda are available on our KölnRUG Meetup site. Please sign up if you would like to come along. Notes from the last Cologne R user group meeting are available here.
Thanks also to Revolution Analytics, who sponsors the Cologne R user group as part of their vector programme.
Quick reminder: The next Cologne R user group meeting is scheduled for tomorrow, 6 February 2013. All details and the agenda are available on the KölnRUG Meetup site. Please sign up if you would like to come along. Notes from the last Cologne R user group meeting are available here. Thanks also to Revolution Analytics, who are sponsoring the Cologne R user group as part of their vector programme.
The next Cologne R user group meeting is scheduled for 5 October 2012. All details and the agenda are available on the KölnRUG Meetup site. Please sign up if you would like to come along. Notes from the last Cologne R user group meeting are available here. Thanks also to Revolution Analytics, who are sponsoring the Cologne R user group as part of their vector programme. View Larger Map
The next Cologne R user group meeting is scheduled for 6 July 2012. All details are available on the new KölnRUG Meetup site. Please sign up if you would like to come along, and notice that there is also pub poll for the after “work” drinks. Notes from the first Cologne R user group meeting are available here. View Larger Map
Venue: Sion em Keldenich, Weyertal 47, 50937 Cologne, Germany, 6 p.m., 30 March 2012, View Larger Map
For more details and registration see the Kölner R User Group page.
Am 30. März 2012 möchte ich gerne das erste Kölner R Benutzer Treffen organisieren. Ich habe an den Treffen in London in den vergangen Jahren teilgenommen und hoffe auch in Köln Gleichgesinnte zu finden, die sich gerne bei einem Kölsch über R and das Leben unterhalten würden. I would like to organise the first R user group meeting in Cologne, Germany, on 30 March 2012. In the past few years I have participated at the London R user groups and I hope to find also like-minded people in Cologne, who would like to catch up over a Kölsch on R and life in general.