• Happy New YeaR and New Decade! Welcome new and current useRs!

• CRUG reached 3,800 members, one of largest groups in world!

  Slack bit.ly/Slack-CRUG

  Twitter ChicagoRusers

  GitHub @Chicago-R-User-Group

  Meetup ChicagoRUG

  Website Chicago-r-user-group.github.io

• Founded in the fall of 2008, by a small group of open source package authors, finance industry practitioners, and finance professors.
• Single-track presentation model, tutorials, roundtable, keynotes.
• Call for Papers. Extended Dealine: February 29 (leap year).
• Early discounted registration will open in March.

• Main annual meeting of the R community, and attendance in 2020 is anticipated to be over 1,000 people including R developers and users.
• Call for Abstracts Deadline: February 3.
• Early registration in February! Book your hotels ASAP! Limited in STL.
  • Call (314) 621-9600, give secret password R foundation SLC conference for discounted rate of $159 per night.

• Organizer of the New York Open Statistical Programming Meetup
• Talk: "On all the ways to lasso in R"
• Date: February 19th

Thanks to IBM for sponsoring food and beverages!

Thanks Dale Rosenthal for providing his WeWork space for tonight's meetup!

• Charlotte Frei: Data compression/loading algorithms with save()/load().
• Adam Ginesky:
  1. Evaluating expressions/functions with eval() and parse()
  2. Binning Data - quantile, cut, ntile, and logical indexing
• Svetlana Levitan: Open standards for ML model deployment with PMML/ONNX
• Dylan Stark: Testing package functions with testthat::with_mock()
• Justin Shea - Blazing fast binary search with data.table::setindex()
• Open Mic - Any unscheduled, impromptu 5-10 minute talk on any R topic

• Half Day Summit (12:30-6:50 PM): covering data science for enterprise operations in Manufacturing, Retail and Finance.
• CRUG received three free passes
• For volunteered speakers: Svetlana, Dylan, and Open Mic (w/ tie breaker)