Description: There is little doubt that "Analytics" is becoming a major part of Operations Research, gaining a lot of interest in the research community as well as in a variety of industries. This year, the MIT Operations Research Center will welcome speakers from various fields to talk about the role and impact of Analytics in improving decision making. Four speakers, from both industry and academic settings...
Software Carpentry's mission is to help scientists and engineers get more research done in less time and with less pain by teaching them basic lab skills for scientific computing. This 1.5 day hands-on workshop will cover basic concepts and tools, including program design in R, version control, data management, and task automation. Participants will be encouraged to help one another and to apply what they have learned to their own research problems. We will also focus on how one can do this work on the FAS RC Odyssey cluster.
There is a nominal fee for the workshop, and is open to everyone,... Read more about Software Carpentry using R
