“Forthcoming Events: useR! 2012” published in The R Journal.
The eighth international R user conference useR! 2012 will take place at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, USA, 12–15 June 2012. Following previous useR! conferences, this meeting of the R user community will
focus on R as the ‘lingua franca’ of data analysis and statistical computing;
provide a platform for R users to discuss and exchange ideas on how R can be used for statistical computation, data analysis, visualization and exciting applications in various fields;
give an overview of the new features of the ever evolving R project.
The program comprises invited talks, user-contributed sessions, lightning talks, a poster session, and pre-conference tutorials and short courses.
The program of invited talks will represent the spectrum of interest from important technical developments to exciting applications of R, presented by experts in the field. The list of invited talks will be announced shortly.
In the contributed sessions, presenters will share innovative and interesting uses of R, covering topics such as:
Bayesian statistics
Big data
Bioinformatics
Business analytics and financial modeling
Chemometrics and computational physics
Data mining
Econometrics & finance
Environmetrics & ecological modeling
High performance computing
Imaging
Interfaces with other languages/software
Machine learning
Multivariate statistics
Nonparametric statistics
Pharmaceutical statistics
Psychometrics
Spatial statistics
Statistics in the social and political sciences
Teaching
Visualization & graphics
Web services with R
Abstracts may be submitted for oral or poster presentation. The poster session will be part of a major social event on one of the evenings during the conference, or during the main program of talks. Submissions for contributed talks will be considered for the following types of session:
useR! Kaleidoscope: These sessions give a broad overview of the many different applications of R and should appeal to a wide audience.
useR! Focus Session: These sessions cover topics of special interest and may be more technical.
In addition to the main program of talks and based on their successful introduction at useR! 2011, all participants are invited to present a Lightning Talk, for which no abstract is required. These talks provide a 5-minute platform to speak on any R-related topic and should particularly appeal to those new to R. A variation of the pecha kucha1 and ignite2 formats will be used in which speakers must provide 15 slides to accompany their talk and each slide will be shown for 20 seconds.
The scientific program is organized by members of the program committee comprising Claudia Beleites, Dirk Eddelbuettel, John Fox, Benjamin French, Tal Galili, Jeffrey Horner, Andy Liaw, Uwe Ligges, Steve Miller, Kate Mullen, Bill Pikounis, Matt Shotwell, Heather Turner, Ravi Varadhan, and Achim Zeileis.
Before the start of the official program, half-day tutorials will be offered on Tuesday, June 12th. The tutorials will address such topics as R for beginners, R for users of other statistical packages, R for statistical modeling, reproducible reporting with Sweave, web services with R, and graphics.
A new feature of useR! 2012 is the full-day pre-conference short
courses, to be held on Monday, June 11. These will include Frank
Harrell’s Regression Modeling Strategies and the rms Package course.
Tutorial/short course presenters include Bill Venables, Terry Therneau, Robert Muenchen, Hadley Wickham, Doug Bates, Jeffrey Horner, Uwe Ligges, and Frank Harrell.
Participants will be well catered for at Vanderbilt University, with multiple nearby hotels as well as on-campus housing available. The University is near downtown Nashville which is close to a major airport.
Nashville is in middle Tennessee and is known as Music City USA for good reason, being the heart of country music, having a world-class symphony orchestra which has won 6 Grammy awards in the past 3 years, and hosting great jazz, bluegrass, blues, and many other types of music.
One of the largest music festivals in the US, Bonnaroo, takes place June 7–10 only 65 miles from Nashville. Another large festival, the country music CMA Fest, takes place in Nashville over the same days. The Cirque du Soleil show, Michael Jackson THE IMMORTAL World Tour comes to Nashville on June 12–13.
A web page offering more information on useR! 2012, including details regarding registration and abstract submission, is available at http://www.R-project.org/useR-2012.
We hope to meet you in Nashville!
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BibTeX citation
@article{RJ-2011-2-forthcoming-user,
author = {Zhu, Frank Harrell (chair), Stephania McNeal-Goddard, Matt Shotwell, JoAnn Alvarez, John Bock, Audrey Carvajal, WJ Cunningham, Chris Fonnesbeck, Tatsuki Koyama, Yanna Song, Sherry Stokes, Yuwei},
title = {Forthcoming Events: useR! 2012},
journal = {The R Journal},
year = {2011},
note = {https://rjournal.github.io/},
volume = {3},
issue = {2},
issn = {2073-4859},
pages = {70-71}
}