Noida – DECISION STATS

The R Users of New Delhi met for the second time on Dec 15, 2012. We meet on the third Saturday of every month.

We talked on epidemiology using epi calc package ( we have 1 doctor and 1 bio statistician) , and Cloud Computing ( we have two IT guys) and Business Analytics. We also discussed the GUI , R Commander , Rattle, and Deducer for beginners and people transitioning to R from other analytics software. We also discussed the R for SAS and SPSS Users books, and R for Data Mining Book. The free book for R for Epidemiology ( http://cran.r-project.org/doc/contrib/Epicalc_Book.pdf ) was mentioned . Not bad for 1 hour.

We are currently unfunded and unsponsored , I hope to get some sponsors to give away R books to encourage users and group members (excluding my own). The only catch to join this meetup group, you either need to attend (and be local) or present something ( if you are not in Delhi)

I have been trying to get this group to go from Vector to Matrix to get a bigger sponsorship from Revolution , but I am constrained by meeting in a public cafe. That is due to change since we managed to get one sponsor for meeting place in Noida ( a Business School batchmate who owns his office)

http://www.revolutionanalytics.com/news-events/r-user-group/

Deadlines for applications are:

March 31, 2013 for Matrix and Array level groups.
September 30, 2013 for Vector level groups.

2013 Sponsorship Levels

The size of the annual grant depends on the size of your group.

Level	For groups that are:	Requirements	Annual Grant ($USD)
Vector	Just getting started	A group name, group webpage, and a focus on R. (Here are some tips on starting up a new R user group.)	$100
Matrix	Smaller but established	3 meetings in last 6 months with 30 attendees or more.	$500
Array	Larger and groups	3 meetings in last 6 months with 60 attendees or more.	$1000