A collection of presentations, tutorials, announcements, and guest posts for the Omaha R Community
Omaha R User Group Meeting
September 20th, 2018 3:00-5:00 pm
Barbara Weitz Community Engagement Center (UNO) - OPPD Community Dialogue Room II
6401 Dodge St
Omaha, NE 68182
Omaha R User Group Meeting
June 7th, 2018 4:30-6:00 pm
Swanson Library Branch Meeting Room
9101 W Dodge Rd
Omaha, NE 68114
Easy Dashboards with R Markdown
Yihui Xie
Ridiculously Parallel R
Matt Sharkey
Omaha R User Group Meeting
March 23rd, 2018 3:00-5:00 pm
Do Space
7205 Dodge St
Room 201
Omaha, NE 68114
NCAA College Bowl Pick'em Predictions
Thomas Roh
*Please read the Terms of Use if you are going to use the data
This is the code from my presentation last week at the Omaha R User Group Meeting. A fun competition every year is to pick the winners for each college football bowl. I wanted to build a data-driven model to help me make this year’s picks. This post will walk through the process of obtaining data for predictions, building a couple predictive models, and then compare the results of the models.
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Omaha R User Group Meeting
January 18th, 2018 3:00-4:30 pm
Do Space
7205 Dodge St
Omaha, NE 68114
The January R User Group Meeting will include presentations from Branden Collingsworth on using the Spotify API in R to analyze song characteristics, Thomas Roh will show predictive modeling for College Football Bowl Predictions, and Kelly Pook will present on College Football Graph Theory.
fbplot
Garth Highland
Visualizing Data Using the Functional Boxplot library(fda) data(growth) girls=growth$hgtf age=growth$age The Berkley growth data found in the fda package is an excellent example of functional data. Here we consider each growth curve to be one observation. With data of this type there are a couple of plotting avenues we might take: over plotting or sequential boxplots.
These methods aren’t inherently “incorrect”, but limitations to their interpretability exist especially when encountered with larger data sets.
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Omaha R User Group Meeting
Omaha R User Group Meeting October 24th, 2017 3:00-4:30 pm Do Space 7205 Dodge St Omaha, NE 68114 Please join us for the first R Omaha User Group Meeting on Tuesday October 24th. We will have an introduction for the group, open discussion on the current state of R as well as two featured presentations. Branden Collingsworth will introduce the purrr package from the tidyverse and Garth Highland will showcase the use of functional boxplots.
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