drewconway

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Lectures and presentations on statistical computing, primarily focused on the the R statistical programming language.

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Statistics and Data Analysis in Python with pandas and statsmodels
Wes McKinney is a prominent figure in the scientific Python community, and has made tremendous contributions to several core statistical computing lib...
Created on 16 September, 2011by drewconway
Time: 00:45:26
Slides: 24
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Experiences with using SAS and R in insurance and banking
Hong Ooi talks about some of the more interesting projects that he has used R for in the last year. These include fitting models for mortgage loss giv...
Created on 23 August, 2011by drewconway
Time: 01:07:28
Slides: 40
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Flying off the Rack: R and the web in 2011
If there is ever a time to learn R and web application development, it is now...in the age of Big Data. The upcoming release of R 2.13 will provide ba...
Created on 18 March, 2011by drewconway
Time: 00:48:30
Slides: 20
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Creating R Packages
Rory Winston provides a detailed introduction to creating R packages. He provides a simple of, from start to finish, as well as how to incorporate na...
Created on 03 March, 2011by drewconway
Time: 01:06:08
Slides: 49
Views: 3,128 | Comments: 0 | Favorited: 3 | Rating: 2
Data-Driven Journalism
The December 2010 meeting of the Bay Area R Users Group featured Peter Aldhous, San Francisco bureau chief of New Scientist magazine who will give a p...
Created on 11 January, 2011by drewconway
Time: 00:51:14
Slides: 32
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What my R code looks and feels like (Vanilla)
Geoff Robinson discusses how to write simple and reusable R code. He provides several examples with code.
Created on 07 December, 2010by drewconway
Time: 00:48:33
Slides: 7
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Reproducible Research and R Workflow
Jeromy Anglim discusses best practices and tools used to support reproducible research in R. He discusses tools for R scripting and version control; ...
Created on 07 December, 2010by drewconway
Time: 00:33:36
Slides: 22
Views: 5,476 | Comments: 0 | Favorited: 2 | Rating: 1
Bayesian estimation with Markov Chain Monte Carlo using PyMC
Prof. Chris Fonnesbeck briefly introduces Bayesian inference, then discusses how to estimate Bayesian models with Markov Chain Monte Carlo using PyMC....
Created on 11 November, 2010by drewconway
Time: 01:03:30
Slides: 82
Views: 1,737 | Comments: 0 | Favorited: 2 | Rating: 2
Creating structured and flexible models: some open problems
Prof. Andrew Gelman, from both the Statistics and Political Science departements at Columbia presented this talk to the New York R Statistical Program...
Created on 09 October, 2010by drewconway
Time: 00:56:16
Slides: 32
Views: 1,950 | Comments: 0 | Favorited: 1 | Rating: 0
NHANES Data: Management with R
David Winsemius discusses the analysis of the NHANES data set to create models that better predict Hepatitis C infection.
Created on 09 September, 2010by drewconway
Time: 00:15:28
Slides: 19
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