From 2014 to 2021 DataScience.LA was the blog of the Los Angeles data science community: summaries and videos of LA R, PyData, DataVis and Machine Learning meetup talks, interviews from the useR! 2014 conference at UCLA, benchmarks, and essays. This is a read-only archive of the original site. Comments are preserved but closed.
I (Szilard) started organizing meetups more than a decade ago (the LA R Users Group est. 2009 was the very first data meetup in the Los Angeles area). A few years later, a couple of us (Amelia, Leigh, Eduardo and I, and also several contributors) started a few more meetup groups (e.g. Data Science) and this very website DataScience.LA. However, in recent years my DataScience.LA Leadership Teammates relocated and now it’s my turn, I’m the last one to leave California (I’m very excited to move to Texas!). While we are ceasing all activities in LA now and this is the last update/post on this website, we will keep the existing/old content accessible for a while. It was a great pleasure running these events/this site and getting to know so many of you. LA has so many great data science folks! However, now it’s time to say goodbye, goodbye LA and California, and good luck to you all.
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Come and have fun with local useRs at SatRday LA on April 6, 2019. This is the first SatRday in LA, and the second in the states. If you have not heard of SatRday, it is a one-day affordable, inclusive, non-profit R conference organized by local R users.
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Update_1: Slides for the 4 talks added below (at each talk section separately).
Update_2: Photos from the meetup and a short description of the event added below (at the bottom of the post).
Update_3: Video recording of the meetup here:
Update: Video of the 2nd half of the talk is here (1st half was not recorded, sorry):
This video is no longer available on YouTube (original link).
In our next meetup, we’ll have Hadley (I think no introduction needed).
Packages made easy
by Hadley Wickham
