Scholarly Colloquia and Events

  • 9/30 Statistics Colloquium, Prof. John W. Emerson

    STATISTICS COLLOQUIUM

     

     

    John W. Emerson

    Associate Prof. of Statistics and

    Director of Graduate Studies

    Yale University

     

    “Topics in High-Performance Computing with R for EveRyone”

     

    ABSTRACT

     

    This talk will explore a range of topics related to high-performance computing with R, accessible to R users at all levels working on standard (i.e. laptop or workstation) hardware.  An understanding of a few subtle features of the language can go a long way towards improving speed and memory-efficiency, and the implications to so-called 'Big Data' problems will be obvious.  The talk with revolve around a small number of reproducible toy examples -- minimal sufficient (in a sense) for achieving the goals.  There will be no theorems or proofs.

     

     

     

    DATE:  Wednesday, September 30, 2015

    TIME:    4:00 p.m. -5:00 p.m.

    PLACE: Philip E. Austin Bldg., Rm. 105

     

    Coffee will be served at 3:30 p.m. in the Noether Lounge (AUST 326)

     

     

    For more information, contact: Tracy Burke at tracy.burke@uconn.edu