https://www.meetup.com/Chicago-R-User-Group/events/268363081/
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Jared Lander: Many ways to Lasso
Anthony Shook, Ph.D: Object-Oriented Programming in R
Anthony started using R more than 10 years ago because he hated Excel, and has never looked back! A former Northwestern Professor, and now Lead Data Scientist at Jellyvision Labs, Anthony will teach us about S3, S4, and R6 object oriented systems in R. https://www.jellyvision.com/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/ajshook/
Jared P. Lander is Chief Data Scientist of Lander Analytics, the Organizer of the New York Open Statistical Programming Meetup and the New York, Washington DC and Dublin R Conferences and an Adjunct Professor at Columbia Business School. He is the author of R for Everyone, a book about R Programming geared toward Data Scientists and Non-Statisticians alike. His writings on statistics can be found at jaredlander.com. The Lasso remains an excellent statistical learning technique for modeling data sets containing many variables/features. While glmnet remains the classic package for applying the approach using R, Jared will show us how one can Lasso with additional R packages interfacing Keras, lars, Stan, xgboost, spark, and quadratic programming.