BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID;X-RICAL-TZSOURCE=TZINFO:-//Calagator//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN X-WR-CALNAME:Calagator METHOD:PUBLISH VERSION:2.0 BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID;X-RICAL-TZSOURCE=TZINFO:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20111106T020000 RDATE:20111106T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120214T052510Z DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120221T200000 DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120221T190000 DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120214T052510Z LAST-MODIFIED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120214T052510Z UID:http://calagator.org/events/1250461963 DESCRIPTION:Jim Loring and Josh Reich\, respectively\, will be giving Feb ruary's talks. See the tentative talk descriptions below. This will be o ur second meeting Simple\; our last one was quite successful!\nThanks to Simple for hosting!\n \nJim Loring\, National Park Service - "\;W ater Quality in R - Revisited"\;\nAn example of water quality analys is using R. Using data gathered from Issaquah Creek near Issaquah\, Was hington and Johnson Creek in Portland\, Jim will discuss the context in which the data was gathered\, the R algorithm used\, an interpretation of the results in the characterization of Issaquah and Johnson Creeks. The presentation illustrates a basic application of R in the managemen t of natural resources and is a continuation of a R Talk given last Oct ober.\n \nJosh Reich\, Simple - "\;An Introduction to Machine Learn ing in R"\;\nJosh will cover k-means\, KNN\, kernel methods\, LDA\, rpart &\; SVMs. A good introduction to techniques geared towards eith er those new to R or ML\, which will draw heavily on material from EOSL. \n\nTags: meetup:event=52271562\, meetup:group=portland-r-user-group\n\n Imported from: http://calagator.org/events/1250461963 URL:http://www.meetup.com/portland-r-user-group/events/52271562/ SUMMARY:February R Meetup @ Simple! LOCATION:Simple: 720 NW Davis\, Suite 400\, Portland OR 97209 us SEQUENCE:1 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR