[OGRUG] A Show of Hands -- Summary (David Bissessar)

[Daniel Buijs]

Hi David,

I've only just joined the list. I would be very interested in attending the meeting. 

I'm not sure I could give a whole talk, but I can certainly participate in discussion about using R to clean up and make sense of dirty datasets. I have more deadends and failed attempts than sucesses, but there may be some interest in what doesn't work. 

I have also learned a few little quirks about some of the Government of Canada data hosted at data.gc.ca that may be useful. 

Daniel Buijs
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> Hi All,
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> Thanks for your feedback. A point form summary to capture input at this point:
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> 1)      16 people have confirmed interest
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> 2)      We have not yet reached outside of the OGRUG mailing list to the meetup, the Universities, and other Agencies/Corporations.
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> 3)      Number of Possible Presenters: 7-9
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> 4)      Subject Areas of interest: 
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> a.       The UG can be a forum for pre-presentations of conference papers or research 
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> b.      Contrast, Synergy R with other languages/environments
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> (examples: SAS, Python, Hadoop, RDBMS, GIS ) 
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> c.       Case Studies: R Techniques as applied to Statistic Problems
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> d.      R Topics
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> 1)      Packaging
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> 2)      Data Mining
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> 3)      Data Munging
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> 4)      Etc∑
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> e.      Case Studies in Projects (Commercial, Academic, Volunteer, Open Source, ...) 
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> 1)      Trees Canopy Dataset
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> 2)      CRAN Packages people maybe active in
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> 5)        Choices of Venues:  
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> Many possible choices of locations:
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> a.       Universities: Any one of Carleton, U of O, Universite du Quebec, possible also to cycle through all three in turn
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> b.      Area Companies (caution regarding possible bias that slips into the users group in those cases) 
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> c.       Public locations (Pub, etc)
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> (Preference going to Universities at this point) 
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>   4.2 Possible sponsorship through Revolution Analytics.
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>         ( This is one of the reasons we needed a show of hands) 
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> Looks like we have a pretty good starting point∑ 
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> Please feel free to add items.
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> Regards,
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> David
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> On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 2:23 PM, Bissessar, David wrote:
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> Hi All,
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> We are considering  re-starting regular events for the Ottawa-Gatineau R User's Group and we hoped to get your input --
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> To help us get a feel for the level of interest, could you send a quick note if you would be interested in participating in regular User's Group meetings?
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> As well, if you have a special area of interest or if you'd be willing to make a brief presentation to the user's group, please do let me know.
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> Depending on the level of interest, we'd take next steps, which might involve finding a sponsor, a location to meet and organizing regular presentations.
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> As appropriate, I'll summarize the feedback received to the mailing list.
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> Thanks,
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> David
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