Talks and Tutorials

2016

• Analyzing Analytics: Advanced Performance Analysis Tools for R. Contributed talk at the SC Workshop on Big Data Analytics: Challenges and Opportunities workshop at SC16, Salt Lake City, UT, November 14, 2016. pdfbutton

• The State of High Performance Computing in the Open Source R Ecosystem. Invited talk at the Intel HPC Developer Conference, Salt Lake City, UT, November 13, 2016. Slides available here.

• HPC with R: The Basics. Invited tutorial at the Intel HPC Developer Conference, Salt Lake City, UT, November 12, 2016. Slides available here.

• Introducing a New Client/Server Framework for Big Data Analytics with the R Language. Contributed talk at the XSEDE16 Conference, Miami, FL, July 19, 2016. pdfbutton

2015

• An Introduction to Programming in R Half-day tutorial in service to the Business Analytics and Statistics Program, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, November 13, 2015.
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• Scaling R Computation for Big Data Processing with XSEDE Resources Full-day tutorial at XSEDE15, St. Louis, MO, July 27, 2015.

• A Beginner’s Guide to Programming in R Half-day tutorial in service to the CURRENT project’s DAnCE curriculum, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, June 9, 2015. pdfbutton

• High Performance Computing with R SF Bay Area XSEDE Workshop at SF State, San Francisco, CA. Slides and Handouts

• High Performance Computing with R Joint tutorial between NICS, XSEDE, and NIMBioS, held at NIMBioS, Knoxville, TN. Slides

2014

• Rapid Web Portal Creation with R and Shiny University of Tennessee booth talk at SC14, New Orleans, LA, November 19, 2014. Slides

• Introducing R: from your Laptop to HPC and Big Data Half-day tutorial at SC14, New Orleans, LA, November 17, 2014. pdfbutton

• Installing and Maintaining R Packages Talk at the Knoxville R Users Group A Series of Very Brief R Topics II meeting, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, October 3, 2014. pdfbutton

• Programming with Big Data in R Half-day tutorial at useR! 2014, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, June 30, 2014. pdfbutton

• High Performance Computing with R Talk at Object Oriented Programming for Scientists and Engineers, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, April 16 and 23, 2014. pdfbutton

• Introduction to Rcpp Half-day tutorial at the NIMBioS Computing in the Cloud workshop, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, April 8, 2014. pdfbutton

• A Hasty Overview of pbdR, with an Application to Matrix Exponentiation Talk at the NIMBioS Computing in the Cloud workshop, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, April 7, 2014. pdfbutton

• High Performance Computing with R Half-day tutorial at the NIMBioS Computing in the Cloud workshop, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, April 6, 2014. pdfbutton

• Introducing the memuse Package Talk at the Knoxville R Users Group A Series of Very Brief R Topics meeting, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, March 28, 2014.

• Introduction to Fortran Programming Talk at the Knoxville R Users Group Seminar Series on High Performance Computing, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, January 16, 2014. pdfbutton

2013

• Programming with big data in R University of Tennessee booth talk at SC13, Denver, CO, November 19, 2013. pdfbutton

• Introducing R: from you Laptop to HPC and Big Data Half-day tutorial at SC13, Denver, CO, November 19, 2013. pdfbutton

• Elevating R to Supercomputers Talk at the Knoxville R Users Group General meeting with a series of fairly short (20-minute-ish) talks on R meeting, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, November 11, 2013. pdfbutton

• Introducing R: from you Laptop to HPC and Big Data Half-day tutorial at XSEDE13, San Diego, CA, July 22, 2013. pdfbutton

• Elevating R to Supercomputers Talk at useR! 2013, Albacete, Spain, July 12, 2013. pdfbutton

• Programming with Big Data in R Half-day tutorial at useR! 2013, Albacete, Spain, July 9, 2013. pdfbutton

• Programming with Big Data in R Half-day tutorial at the Programming with Big Data in R: pbdR event for OLCF, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, June 17, 2013.

• A Beginner’s Guide to Programming in R Full-day tutorial in service to the 2013 NIMBioS REU program, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, June 14, 2013.
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• Introducing R: from you Laptop to HPC and Big Data Half-day tutorial at NICS Spring Training, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, March 26, 2013. pdfbutton

2012

• Tight Coupling of R and Distributed Linear Algebra for High-Level Programming with Big Data Talk at the Petascale Data Analytics: Challenges and Opportunities workshop at SC12, Salt Lake City, UT, April 12, 2012. pdfbutton

• Graphics with R Using ggplot2 Half-day tutorial Conference, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, June 28, 2012. pdfbutton

• Parallel Processing for Faster ARIMA Model Selection Invited talk for the department of statistics, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, April 10, 2012. pdfbutton

• An Introduction to LaTeX Half-day tutorial for the Office of Information Technology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, January 20, 2012

• Introduction to R Half-day tutorial for the Office of Information Technology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, January 20, 2012