useR! 2014 Highlights
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- My talk went well; here are the slides and a link to the paper pre-print.
- Hadley Wickham gave an excellent tutorial on
dplyr. - Based on the talk I saw, I think I will take the data sets from the book and make some public visualizations on the
Plotlywebsite. - There were a few presentations on interactive graphics that were very good (here, here and here).
- Tal Galili gave an excellent talk on visualizing and analyzing hierarchical clustering algorithms.
- The HeR session was great. I also learned about R-ladies.
- Revolution Analytics and RStudio proposed two similar techniques for preserving versions for better reproducibility.
- The subsemble package by Erin LeDell was impressive.
- I had dinner with John Chambers, which was pretty cool too.
(This article was originally posted at http://appliedpredictivemodeling.com)