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DESCRIPTION:For this month's meetup\, Jack Horne will present on integrat
 ing R with Excel in the context of market research.&#13\;\nJack is inter
 ested in the possibility of holding instructional R sessions\; let him k
 now if you might like to attend!&#13\;\nThis meetup will be at Simple\, 
 to whom we extend our thanks for hosting.&#13\;\n &#13\;\nTalk Descripti
 on:&#13\;\nMarket research simulators are often delivered using Microsof
 t Excel. While this software provides an enormous range of functionality
 \, especially when combined with Visual Basic\, sometimes it is not enou
 gh given either large amounts of data or specific algorithmic needs. The
  power of R to rapidly process large data sets and to go well beyond the
  mathematical capabilities of Excel can be leveraged into Excel-based si
 mulators through RExcel.&#13\;\n &#13\;\n &#13\;\nSpeaker Bio:&#13\;\nJa
 ck Horne is a vice president in the Marketing Sciences Group. He has wor
 ked as an applied statistician for more than 20 years in fields as diver
 se as technology and communications\; financial services\; healthcare an
 d drug development\; biochemistry and sensory perception of foods\; and 
 consumer packaged goods.\n\nTags: meetup:group=portland-r-user-group\, m
 eetup:event=86587702\n\nImported from: http://calagator.org/events/12504
 62966
URL:http://www.meetup.com/portland-r-user-group/events/86587702/
SUMMARY:October R User Group Meetup - R & Excel
LOCATION:Simple: 1615 SE 3rd Ave\, Suite 200\, Portland OR 97214 US
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