
Hi All,

Thanks for your feedback. A point form summary to capture input at this point:

1)      16 people have confirmed interest

2)      We have not yet reached outside of the OGRUG mailing list to the meetup, the Universities, and other Agencies/Corporations.

3)      Number of Possible Presenters: 7-9

4)      Subject Areas of interest: 



a.       The UG can be a forum for pre-presentations of conference papers or research 

b.      Contrast, Synergy R with other languages/environments



(examples: SAS, Python, Hadoop, RDBMS, GIS ) 



c.       Case Studies: R Techniques as applied to Statistic Problems

d.      R Topics



1)      Packaging

2)      Data Mining

3)      Data Munging

4)      Etc…



e.      Case Studies in Projects (Commercial, Academic, Volunteer, Open Source, ...) 



1)      Trees Canopy Dataset

2)      CRAN Packages people maybe active in





5)        Choices of Venues:  



Many possible choices of locations:



a.       Universities: Any one of Carleton, U of O, Universite du Quebec, possible also to cycle through all three in turn

b.      Area Companies (caution regarding possible bias that slips into the users group in those cases) 

c.       Public locations (Pub, etc)

(Preference going to Universities at this point) 




   4.2 Possible sponsorship through Revolution Analytics.

         ( This is one of the reasons we needed a show of hands) 




Looks like we have a pretty good starting point… 

Please feel free to add items.

Regards,

David

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On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 2:23 PM, Bissessar, David wrote:

Hi All,

 We are considering  re-starting regular events for the Ottawa-Gatineau R User's Group and we hoped to get your input --

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?

 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.

 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.

 As appropriate, I'll summarize the feedback received to the mailing list.

 Thanks,

 David


 		 	   		  
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