Microsoft APAC Machine Learning & Data Science Community Bootcamp
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The document describes the Malaysia R User Group (MyRUG), which was started in June 2016 by Poo Kuan Hoong. MyRUG aims to provide a diverse group for members ranging from beginners to experts in R programming to share knowledge through bi-monthly meetups. The meetups feature talks by industry experts and practitioners as well as workshops and demos related to applying R. MyRUG has 203 members on Meetup and 379 followers on Facebook and has hosted 6 meetups covering topics like customer churn analytics, machine learning with Rattle and R, and speakers from companies like Microsoft, Oracle, and Sitecore Malaysia.
Microsoft APAC Machine Learning & Data Science Community Bootcamp
- 2. Malaysia R User Group (MyRUG) Poo Kuan Hoong ASEAN Data Analytics Exchange (ADAX)
- 3. About Me Poo Kuan Hoong Founder of Malaysia R User Group (MyRUG) Senior Data Scientist, Asean Data Analytics Exchange (ADAX) Senior Data Science Manager, Nielsen Malaysia (2016) Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Computing & Informatics, Multimedia University (~15 years) Ph.D from Nagoya Institute of Japan (Distributed System) (2008) [email protected] 3 https://www.linkedin.com/in/kuanhoong/
- 4. Malaysia R User Group (MyRUG) The Malaysia R User Group (MyRUG) started in June 2016. MyRUG is a diverse group that come together to discuss anything related to the R programming language. We aim to provide members ranging from beginners to R professionals and experts to share and learn about R programming and gain competency as well as share new ideas or knowledge. MyRUG organizes bi-monthly meet-up for all members. Meet-ups consist of knowledge sharing talks by leading industry experts and practitioners. Besides that, there will be demo or workshop related to the application of R. 4
- 5. Meetup Page 5 Malaysia R User Group Meetup page has 203 members
- 6. Facebook Page 6 Malaysia R User Group Facebook page has 379 followers
- 7. 1st Meet-up @ Multimedia University (MMU) 17th August 2016 Speakers: Dr KHPoo & Dr Ian Tan (MMU) 7
- 8. 2nd Meet-up @ Microsoft Malaysia 20th October 2016 Speakers: Ben Sadeghi (Microsoft) & Alaeddin (Priority Dynamics) 8
- 9. 3rd Meet-up & Malaysia Digital Economy Corp (MDEC) 24th Nov 2016, 230 participants 5 speakers 9
- 10. 4th Meet-up at HELP University 16th Feb 2017 Speaker: Dr KHPoo – Customer Churn Analytics using Microsoft R Open 10
- 11. 5th Meet-up at Sitecore Malaysia 28th March 2017 Speaker: Dr Graham Williams – Machine Learning with Rattle and R 11
- 12. 6th Meet-up at Asean Data Analytics Exchange (ADAX) 20th April 2017 Speakers from Oracle 12
- 13. Thank you… We welcome you to join our meet-up and share knowledge with our members. Please do contact me if you are coming to Malaysia. [email protected] Or visit our meetup/Facebook page 13