Algerian R Users Group is open to anyone who uses R for data analysis, data visualization, or Data Mining, or anyone who is interested in learning R. All skill levels are welcome. Our goal is to support and share R experiences and knowledge among its users in the Algerian community.

1. Algerian R Users Group
(Official kick off)
29th October 2016

2. Agenda
 The Data Revolution
 Data Science and Big Data as a new enabler for economic competitivity.
 What are the tools and Technologies used in Data Science and Big Data ecosystem?
 What is R?
 R Capabilities?
 Who Uses R.
 Show us some example.
 Presentation of the Group
 Who are we?
 What is our objective?
 Why a group specialized in R?
 How to join us?
 The 2017 Roadmap of the Group
 Trainings.
 Hackathons & Meetup’s
 Data Science for Social Good Challenges.

3. The Data Revolution
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OrrB0SiUFKw

4. Data Science and Big Data as a new
enabler for economic competitivity
 Why Algeria should be part of this Data Revolution?
 What is the cost of embracing Analytics for the Algerian companies?
 What are the tools and Technologies used in Data Science and Big Data Analytics
ecosystem?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jUFPFtU-564

5. Data Science and Big Data ecosystem

6. What is R?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TR2bHSJ_eck

7. Why Use R?
 R is not just a statistical tool, it’s a language:
 Simulation.
 Automation.
 Reproducibility.
 R is designed to operate the way that problems are thought about:
R is vector-oriented, meaning that objects are generally treated as a whole same as
humans tend to think of the situation rather than as a collection of individual numbers.
 R is both flexible and powerful
 Interactive.
 Open Source.
 Very Active Community (+1 Millions)
 Libraries (+2000).
 Can call C and C++ functionality from R.
Which Analytics tool do you prefer to use:
SAS, R, or Python?
Source: Butch Works Survey

8. R Capabilities?
Social Network Analysis Interactive Visualization
Dashboard and Data AppsMachine Learning & Statistical Analysis

9. What else R can do for you?
1. R can do text mining: Check out stringr, tm, and a large number of other natural language processing packages.
2. R can get data out of a database: Check out RMySQL, RMongoDB, rhdf5, ROracle,RODBC,……
3. R can process nasty data: Check out dplyr, reshape2, tidyr…………
4. R can process images: EBImage is a good general purpose tool, but there are also packages for various file types like
jpeg.
5. R can handle different data formats: CSV, json, xml, excel, SPSS, SAS,…………..
6. R can interact with APIs: Check out RCurl and httr for general purpose software, or you could try some specific
examples like twitter, Rfacebook, Google map, Open Street map,………………..
7. R can do web scrapping: Check out Rvest, RSelenuim, Rcurl, httr,………….
8. R can build apps/interactive graphics: Shiny, Plotly, Ggvis,……………………………..
9. R can create dynamic documents: Try out Knitr or slidify.
10. R can play with Hadoop and Spark: Check out the rhadoop, Sparklyr, Rspark.
11. R can create interactive teaching modules: You can do it in the console with swirl or on the web with Datamind.
12. R interfaces very nicely with C if you need to be hardcore: Rcpp, rPython,………………………
Source: http://simplystatistics.org/2013/12/30/some-things-r-can-do-you-might-not-be-aware-of/

10. Who Uses R?
And More ……………

11. Talk is cheap
show us some real examples

12. How Does Algeria compare to other Arab
Countries in doing business?

13. Live Demo

14. Mapping POS Performance in Algiers using
simulated data

15. Interactively navigate in Open Street Map

16. Analyzing Facebook Communication during
Ramadan for Algerian Telecom Operators

17. We can Share it as an Html File, or embed it
in our website.

18. Identifying Risky Bank Loans
Source: Brett Lentz Book: Machine learning with R

19. Presentation of the Group

20. Who are we?
University Teachers & ResearchersUniversity Students
Professional who analyze data Just Curious

21. What is our objective?
Algerian R Users Group aims to:
 Federate the community of Algerian "Data Analysts, Data Miners and Data Scientists” who
use R.
 Promote the teaching of R Language in universities, especially for students following
degrees with quantitative options (Statistics, Finance, Economics, Operations Research,
Machine Learning, etc ...)
 Welcome as members and/or partners all persons/companies that are active directly or
indirectly in the field of Analytics whether in business, academia or NGOs, it is above all a
place where members can exchange and share their experiences and ideas around the use
of the R language in their respective fields.

22. Why a group specialized in R?
358 meetup spread over 223 cities and 55 countries, by May 15, 2016

23. How to join us?
Facebook & Slack:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/1135595893158091/
https://algerianrusers.slack.com/

24. Our Roadmap for 2017

25. Train the Group members Via Moocs and / or
online sessions by other experimented members

26. Hackathons & Meetup’s?
On Site On Line

27. Data Science for Social Good Challenges?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=beNCzRE6pxo

28. Data Science for Social Good Challenges?

29. Thank You