Ron Fredericks writes: In February I attended the Bay Area R User Group meeting recently held at Predictive Analytics World 2009. Michael E. Driscoll, one of the two kickoff meeting co-chairs, was gracious enough to let LectureMaker capture the video for the event as a technical marketing “lighthouse” project.

Today I am happy to present this video to my readers.

If you manage the marketing, feature roll-out, or web site design, for a social network or professional ecosystem, then you need the techniques presented in this video.

Watch this video to learn about:

1. The open-source analytics programming language called R
2. How Google and Facebook approach analytics to predict their web user community’s behavior
3. Where to download R and get enterprise level support
4. How the meeting co-chairs use R

Panel of four recognized R users from industry:

• Bo Cowgill, Google
• Itamar Rosenn, Facebook
• David Smith, Revolution Computing
• Jim Porzak, The Generations Network

Moderator and co-chair of Bay Area R User Group:

• Michael E. Driscoll, Dataspora LLC

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Ron Fredericks writes: Have you ever wanted to include math equations in your blog posts or lecture materials?  Here is an easy and slick way to get the job done.  Use Embedded Components new WordPress plugin called WordPress Math Publisher, or wpmathpub, for short. 

As an example, when I embedded the wpmathpub [pmath size=xx] tag into my blog post — like this:

I get the following mathematical equation displayed in my blog post:

where:
is defined as a
is defined as b

 You can learn more from the plugin’s wiki-like documentation on wordpress.org site itself from here:

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wpmathpub/

You can post questions or comments on this plugin from here:

http://www.embeddedcomponents.com/blogs/2008/03/wpmathpubsupport/

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