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Pre-conference tutorials announced for useR! 2012
Updated: 2012-01-30 23:58:57The worldwide R user conference, useR! 2012, will take place this year June 12-15 in Nashville, Tennessee. In addition to the regular program of invited and contributed talks, a highlight of every useR! is the pre-conference tutorials: hand-on, half-day in-depth expert-led sessions with a focused on a specific area of methodology with R. This year's roster of tutorials has been announced, with topics such as reproducible research, parallel programming, medical image analysis, Hadoop, predictive modeling, and many more. And as an extra-special bonus, Bill Venables (of Introduction to R fame) will present a one-day course on June 11. This session...useR! 2012: Earlybird Registration for International R Users Conference, Nashville TN 12-15 2012
Updated: 2012-01-30 14:04:11The 8th international R users conference useR! 2012 will be in Nashville TN USA June 12-15 with a special all-day pre-conference course from Bill Venables on June 11. We have a terrific lineup of half-day tutorials on June 12 and will have invited and contributed presentations of interest to a wide variety of R users. Details may be found at http://biostat.mc.vanderbilt.edu/UseR-2012 and online early bird registration is now available. Abstract submissions for contributed talks and posters are welcomed. There are major entertainment events in and around Nashville before and during the conference that you may also want to take advantage of. (This is a guest post by Frank Harrell)C and a Box of Chocolates: Video Presentations from the Wolfram Technology Conference 2011
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