Here is my presentation from last night’s Boston Predictive Analytics Meetup graciously hosted by Predictive Analytics World Boston.
The talk is meant to provide an overview of (some) of the different ways to get data into R, especially supplementary data sets to assist with your analysis.
All code and data files are available at github: http://bit.ly/pawdata (https://github.com/jeffreybreen/talk-201210-data-deluge)
The slides themselves are on slideshare: http://bit.ly/pawdatadeck (http://www.slideshare.net/jeffreybreen/tapping-the-data-deluge-with-r)
Things I tend to forget 
October 4, 2012 at 9:38 AM
Jeff,
Many thanks for the terrific presentation.
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In the file ’10-WDI.R’ (handouts on the Github) the indices at the
colnames(data)[3:6] = c(‘fertility’, ‘life expectancy’, ‘population’, ‘per capita GDP’)
should probably be [4:7] …
Again, many thanks for sharing the knowledge.
Vic