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Hadley Wickham will be in Portland and present for the group!

Hadley is currently Chief Scientist at RStudio. He has produced many popular R packages, including ggplot2, devtools, reshape, and plyr. The tentative talk topic is the new dplyr package, which is the next generation of plyr: "Plyr specialised for data frames: faster & with remote datastores".

Location: Please note that this is in a different location than our recent meetings. The OHSU Center for Health & Healing is located in the South Waterfront neighborhood and is serviced by the Portland Streetcar (SW Moody & Gibbs stop) and line 35. In addition to on-street parking, there are surface lots on Whitaker Street west of Bond Avenue. We will be in Room 3171 which on the third floor in the E. Paul Kirk Conference (also known as Conference Center Room 1a).

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Hadley Wickham is the Chief Scientist at RStudio as well as an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Statistics at Rice University. He is the author of many popular packages for R including ggplot2, devtools, testthat, reshape2, and dplyr. He is also the past Editor-in-chief of The R Journal.

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