Wellington R Users Group   20 November 2014   Ethan Li   Harmonic Analytics
Channel: Wellington R Users Group
Date: 2014-11-23

Who:     Ethan Li, Harmonic Analytics Ltd

Focus:    R is a valuable tool for handling and visualising spatial data.  In this talk, Ethan will provide an introduction to spatial data and show you the basic methods for manipulating spatial data in R.  Some visualisation examples will also be shown to illustrate what can be achieved in R to help obtain insights from the data. 

This is an education session and is targeted at beginners who have no or little prior experience with spatial data.   

Biography:   Ethan is a Data Scientist at Harmonic Analytics and is currently studying part-time for a Master degree in Statistics at Auckland University.  He has a Science Honours Degree in Statistics, and a conjoint degree (Bachelor of Commerce/Bachelor of Science) in Finance, Accounting and Statistics from the University of Auckland.

Ethan has published an R package called {glarma} ('Generalised Linear Autoregressive Moving Average') which is available in CRAN and is in the process of developing the ‘meta plot’ package.