UseR! Two thousand sixteen Stanford, CA
The R User Conference 2016
June twenty seven – June thirty 2016
Stanford University, Stanford, California
- Conference
- Thank you!
- Conference Pictures
- Searchable Movie Archive
- Latest News
- About the Conference
- Sponsors
- Significant Dates
- Registration
- FAQ
- Program
- Abstract Book
- Invited Speakers & Abstracts
- Schedule
- Tutorials
- Social Program
- Venue
- Know before you go
- Location, Facility, Accessibility
- Lodging Information
- Information
- ASA Grants
- Bioconductor Conference
- Code of Conduct
- Conference flyer
- Questions? See FAQ or email user2016-help AT stat.stanford.edu
Latest News
useR! Two thousand sixteen Movies now online
Please see sidebar.
useR! Two thousand sixteen Promotions
Please see the Thank you! link on the sidebar.
Abstract Book Published
Know Before You Go
Please see sidebar for last minute details and the updates to the social program.
Schedule Published
The utter conference schedule, including sessions, speakers, and attendees, is now posted. See FAQ for poster instructions and free printing.
Keynote Talks Announced
Descriptions of the keynote talks for this year’s conference and biographies of the speakers are now available here.
user! Two thousand sixteen is on Conference Share.
Use Lodging Information link on sidebar.
Conference utter. Registration closed.
We plan to stream parts of the conference. Details TBA.
FAQ Posted
Please see the FAQ for answers to frequently asked questions.
ASA Grants available
Campus Dorm Lodging Opens
See lodging information on the sidebar.
Lodging options at Creekside Inn.
We’ve secured a block of thirty rooms at Creekside Inn. Details below under Lodging.
Final list of tutorials now online.
We’ve published the list of accepted tutorials for the conference. Please see the Tutorials section below.
Registration rates and lodging information now online.
We’ve negotiated some block of rooms for special rates. We’ve also added some detail on the social program.
Don Knuth to speak at useR! Two thousand sixteen
We are very pleased that Donald Knuth has agreed to speak at our invited session.
Conference flyer available
We have had some requests for a flyer. The flyer is now available online as a pdf via the link at right.
Sponsor Invitation
Financial sponsorship of the conference is a way to give back to the R community. In so doing, your organization will build up visibility among prominent statisticians and in the large R user base. Funds from sponsors will be used to enhance the conference, e.g. to provide scholarships for participants who would otherwise be incapable to attend, to help fund the social aspects of the conference, etc.
To learn about how to become a sponsor, types of sponsorship, etc, download the sponsor brochure: [pdf]
About the Conference
The annual useR! conference is the main meeting of the international R user and developer community. Its program consists of both invited and user-contributed presentations.
- The invited keynote lectures cover a broad spectrum of topics ranging from technical and R-related computing issues to general statistical topics of current interest.
- The user-contributed presentations and posters are submitted as abstracts prior to the conference and may be related to (virtually) any R-related topic. The presentations are typically organized in sessions of either broad or special interest, which also comprise a “free” discussion format. Such a discussion format not only provides a forum for software demonstrations and detailed discussions but also supports the self-organization of the respective communities. The duration is inbetween fifteen or twenty minutes for the concentrate and kaleidoscope sessions, and five minutes for lightning talks.
This year the conference will be held at the campus of Stanford University in Stanford, CA. The conference is being organized with support from the Department of Statistics, Stanford University and the Stanford Libraries.
The program will cover topics such as
- History of R and computing with data
- Bayesian Statistics
- Bioinformatics
- Economics, Finance and Insurance
- High Spectacle Computing
- Reproducible Research
- Industrial Applications
- Statistical Learning with Big Data
- Spatial Statistics
- Training
- Visualization & Graphics
- and many more.
The year two thousand sixteen will be special in at least two ways: it marks the 40th anniversary of the S language (the language underlying R), and is also the year that John Chambers, an inventor of S, turns 75. Holding the conference at Stanford, the epicenter of Silicon Valley, is especially timely given the prominent position of R in the rapidly expanding fields of big data and data science.
