R is an open source programming language for statistical computing, data analysis and graphical visualization (it generates beautiful charts very easily!). It is the de facto standard for statistical computing in academia and is becoming increasingly popular with commercial users in areas such as business intelligence, predictive analytics, data mining, machine learning, computational biology and quantitative finance. While R has an estimated 1 million users globally, the local Vancouver user b …

This group is for anyone interested in unique representations of data, you may be a programmer, artist or data nerd (or all of the above!)

Want to learn more about machine learning? This group will meet to discuss and share the latest happenings in machine learning and related fields such as artificial intelligence, statistics and neural networks. This group is for people working in machine learning, students, researchers and general enthusiasts in the fields of AI, stats, mathematics and those curious about applications to the web, data-mining, bioinformatics and other real-world problems.