Hello Machine Learning Experts!

In 2 days, 6 sessions, and 16 hours you have come a long way.

"Machine learning will be the engine of global growth."

Financial times, July 2018

"Fuel of the future - Data is giving rise to a new economy."

The Economist, May 2017

"Wie Big Data die Finanzmärkte verändern könnte"

NZZ, August 2018

Businesses employ AI/ML

A nerdy cartoon

from smbc-comics.com

"Most technologies have their bright and dark side [...] My personal opinion is that a machine's ability to better understand us would lead to improved consumer experience, products, etc… But imagine that we published a clone of youarewhatyoulike.com that simply predicted which of your friends was gay (or Christian or liberal or HIV-positive, etc); lynches are not unlikely to follow…"

Michal Kosinski, Stanford University [Full text]

Websites

The web is a great place to learn about R.

Google or Rseek, which is a wrapper around google to maximize hits related to R. However, most of the time Google works just fine. Just be sure to add r to the the search query.

R-bloggers is a website on which R users inform each other on the newest developments. See, e.g., Nathaniel's entry.

Stackoverflow is a website on which R users exchange problems and solutions to problems. Try post something yourself. You will be amazed by the turnaround.

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