Data visualization helps us understand data. The DataVis LA meetup discusses the many aspects of data visualization: exploratory data analysis, presentation graphics, infographics, design, art, etc., and brings together a diverse community of data scientists, statisticians, software developers, BI specialists, business analysts, journalists, designers and artists with the goal of learning more about the art and science of data visualization from each other.
Meetup Groups: DataVis LA
Welcome to Data Science LA!
Welcome! We are launching DataScience.LA to provide a home for all the content (slides, code,…
Data science goes to college with DataFest
Below is the first of several exciting data science developments for the younger generation, happening…
Statistics grad school– what is it really like?
As a PhD graduate student in statistics here at UCLA, I’d like to talk a…
useR! 2014 Conference Videos and Release Plan
Many of us here in the DataScience.LA Team were also involved in organizing the useR! 2014…
Making Maps with a Punchline
I’ve had a lifelong fascination with maps, and working with R definitely enables my map…
A Conversation with Hadley Wickham – the useR! 2014 interview
Hadley Wickham is famous. He’s not Kardashian famous, but walking around useR! and seeing the…
I think it’s interesting that R is an extremely fixable language.
Hadley Wickham
Meetup Groups: LA R Meetup
R is an open source software and programming language for data analysis, statistical modeling, visualization…
Part 2 of Statistics Grad school – What is it really like?
(Note: This is my second installment on grad school, you can read the first part…
Introduction to Data Science for High School Students
Another exciting development in data science coming from our department at UCLA is a high…