Meet with other Philadelphia area users of the R programming language
The Philly UseR Group is aimed at sharing knowledge and experience among users of the R statistical programming environment.
Josef is a graduate student in Linguistics at the University of Pennsylvania. His research focuses mainly on language variation and change, especially within vowel systems. Specifically, he tries to see how quantitative analysis of large speech databases can be brought to bear on theoretical models in Linguistics.
For 40 years, researchers at the University of Pennsylvania's Linguistics Lab have been interviewing every day Philadelphians. Recently, we have been engaged in a project to take this catalogue of interviews, which mostly exists on reel-to-reel magnetic tape,and apply modern technological advancements in audio processing to generate a large and rich data set of dialect information. We have used R at many stages of the process from the acoustic analysis (using the python package rpy2), to the data refinement and manipulation, to data visualization, to statistical analysis of the results. I'll discuss the role R played, and show you some examples of language change in motion.
Career Opportunities at Plehn Analytics
Plehn Analytics supplies unique economic and financial solutions to the financial services industry leveraging U.S. government datasets (IRS, Census, BLS, BEA, Federal Reserve, etc.). Our products provide market segmentation, risk assessment, and intelligence about customers, suppliers, and competitors in order to enable the financial services industry to make more informed decisions. Our clients include hedge funds, investment banks,…
Posted by Helen Plehn on January 2, 2012 at 11:16am
We are looking for a full-time (or part-time) R programmer and project manager with basic MySQL and web programming skills. The project involves the collection and analysis of a large set of political, economic, military, technological, and social forecasts made by people all over the country. We need help with both programming and support for a group of professors and students who are developing new methods of aggregating forecasts and analyzing the attributes of good forecasters. If you…
ContinuePosted by Barbara Mellers on October 24, 2011 at 12:47pm
We are looking for a potential collaborator in our application to an NSF grant due in July. The collaborator will help us to arrange short or full course for undergraduate students to learn about bioinformatics and we can take care part or all of the teaching. R needs to be used the teaching program of course. If you, or somebody you know, are interested in it, please email to zhangz@email.chop.edu
Posted by Zhe Zhang on May 23, 2011 at 3:56pm
Posted by Richard Heiberger on May 5, 2011 at 12:43pm
So far I've got:Me - "Review of The Art of R Programming"Sandra Griffith - "useR! 2011 Highlights"Richard Heiberger and Naomi Robbins - "Design of Plots for Likert and Other Rating Scales"Matthew…Continue
Started by Jeremy Leipzig Jan 4.
Career Opportunities at Plehn AnalyticsPlehn Analytics supplies unique economic and financial solutions to the financial services industry leveraging U.S. government datasets (IRS, Census, BLS, BEA,…Continue
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Started by Helen Plehn Jan 2.
I am looking for lightning speakers for the upcoming meeting! Speakers will be given 5 minutes/15 slides to discuss an R-related topic of their choice. Post here if you are interested in presenting…Continue
Started by Jeremy Leipzig. Last reply by Jeremy Leipzig Mar 27, 2011.
My employer, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, has offered meeting space on the 16th floor of 3535 Market St. I think the next step is to choose a date and time that works for most people.Continue
Started by Jeremy Leipzig Feb 4, 2011.
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