Several of the folks from REvolution Computing will be in Europe in June and July for various conferences and events. Here's all the info, from our press release.
Leading Commercial Provider of Open Source R-Based Predictive Analytics Solutions to Discuss Latest Advances at Major Conferences useR 2009!, RMetrics and Directions in Statistical Computing
NEW HAVEN, Conn. REvolution Computing, the leading provider of open source predictive analytics solutions, will have major roles in upcoming European conferences addressing the latest developments in deploying the R language for advanced analytics.
The European Tour begins June 28 with RMetrics in Lake Thune, Switzerland, continuing with featured presentations at useR 2009! on July 8 in Rennes, France and concluding at Directions in Statistical Computing July 13 in Copenhagen. REvolution executives will be discussing advances in the use of R, ranging from developments in “bigmemory,” to creating a new online collaborative methods for R users, to innovations in debugging R in a Microsoft Windows environment.
REvolution Director of Systems Engineering, Bryan Lewis, and Yale University Associate Professor and REvolution Computing Adviser John “Jay” Emerson will each make featured presentations at the RMetrics conference at Lake Thune, Switzerland. Lewis’s topic will be “Introducing Foreach and Iterators,” and is designed to show how to overcome performance bottle necks in real-world problems. Emerson will deliver an address on “bigmemory,” titled “The R Package bigmemory: Supporting Efficient Computation and Concurrent Programming with Large Data Sets.” Professor Emerson’s work in bigmemory is focused on allowing R users to more easily manage, share and analyze data sets larger than available RAM.
Emerson and Lewis will be joined by REvolution Open Source Diva Danese Cooper and REvolution Director of Community David Smith at useR 2009!, the premier annual meeting for R practitioners, in Rennes, France July 8 and 9.
David Smith’s topic on July 8 will be “Parallel Computing with Iterators.” He will demonstrate how to iterate the elements of a vector or list in R and how to deploy REvolution’s recently introduced function foreach for programming loops in R, which can be run in parallel. Both methods dramatically reduce the time to process loops in R and the time it takes to program and debug them.
On July 9 renowned open source thought leader Danese Cooper will outline a new system for collaborative documentation for R, designed to augment existing protocols for annotating reference documents with user-contributed content.
Also on July 9, Bryan Lewis will introduce Baglama’s Lanczos (IRLB) methods for computing a few singular vectors of a matrix to the R language. Lewis will demonstrate how these state-of the-art methods significantly outperform existing R language SVD implementations. In addition, Jay Emerson will reprise his talk on bigmemory.
REvolution’s European tour will conclude at the Directions in Statistical Computing Conference (DSC) in Copenhagen on July 13. REvolution Director of Community David Smith’s presentation, “New Interfaces for Interactive Debugging in R,” will describe a project underway with REvolution Computing and others in the R development community to support interactive debugging. Smith will also describe a forthcoming Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for R based on Microsoft Visual Studio, which uses these new interfaces to provide user-friendly interactive debugging for R programmers.
For more information about REvolution Computing or REvolution’s participation in RMetrics, useR 2009! and Directions in Statistical Computing visit www.REvolution-Computing.com/events.
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