Globe Bar Cafe

Noah Pepper will be giving June's R talk!

Title:

Data mining the United States patent record 1976-2009

Our May meeting!

Mike Prager will be giving the talk "Using R for post-processing results of compiled model code"

The Portland R User Group's first meetup at The Globe!

Every Tuesday we show 3 TED Talks on our wall sized screen organized around a common theme.

This weeks theme: The Mind

Gero Miesenboeck reengineers a brain In the quest to map the brain, many scientists have attempted the incredibly daunting task of recording the activity of each neuron. Gero Miesenboeck works backward -- manipulating specific neurons to figure out exactly what they do, through a series of stunning experiments that reengineer the way fruit flies perceive light.

Dan Gilbert asks, Why are we happy? Harvard psychologist Dan Gilbert says our beliefs about what will make us happy are often wrong -- a premise he supports with intriguing research, and explains in his accessible and unexpectedly engaging talk.

VS Ramachandran on your mind Vilayanur Ramachandran tells us what brain damage can reveal about the connection between celebral tissue and the mind, using three startling delusions as examples.

These are super informal meetups where we hang out, talk about geeky stuff (wikis, open source, new technologies, openid, ...), and wind down with like-minded people over beverages.

Since this is the last meetup of the year (it doesn't make sense to have a 4th Thursday meetup in Nov/Dev to conflict with the holidays), we wanted to do something a little different ...

Thanks to a sponsor who wishes to remain anonymous we will be having the meetup at Jace Gace. Our sponsor will cover the fee to rent the space for the evening, but you will be on your own to pay for drinks / waffles. Have you ever been to Jace Gace? They have the most amazing waffles and they have beer / wine! Mmmm, waffles and alcohol. Heaven.

A bunch of PDX techie and creative types getting together for some seriously good waffles. Mmmmm waffles. You got a problem with that??