July meeting next week!

I am super-excited about this one!

When: 7-9pm Thu July 21, 2011
Where: FreeGeek
Who: Dr Chris Monsere
What: Data Visualization and Exploration Techniques Using R and Postgres

Many civil engineering students have limited exposure to large-scale,
messy, empirical data sets, lack basic programming skills, are fuzzy
on basic statistical concepts, and have few graphical analyses tools.
This presentation will summarize efforts to develop an introductory
graduate level course to teach students some of these fundamental
skills. In the class, students connect R to the regional
transportation data archive at PSU's Intelligent Transportation
Systems Lab housed in Postgres. The presentation will showcase some of
the interesting data visualizations we've created, advantages of
making this connection, as well as some the limitations.

Dr. Christopher M. Monsere is an Assistant Professor of Civil and
Environmental Engineering in the Maseeh College of Engineering &
Computer Science at Portland State University. Dr. Monsere’s primary
research interests are in the areas of multimodal transportation
safety; management and dissemination of large transportation datasets;
and improvements in transportation operations.
http://web.cecs.pdx.edu/~monserec/about.htm

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As always, beer afterwards at the Lucky Lab. See you there!