"I use LISA to benchmark the SA activities in my company."
LISA '13 Attendee
"I keep coming back for the technical content and the personal networking opportunities. I attend for career development."
LISA '13 Attendee
"LISA is where professionals share what's hot in designing, building, and maintaining critical systems."
Tom Limoncelli, author, speaker, and system administrator
"LISA is where professionals share what's hot in designing, building, and maintaining critical systems."
Tom Limoncelli, author, speaker, and system administrator
"LISA is the place where industry best practices and cutting-edge research come together to advance system administration."
Nicole Forsgren Velasquez, Utah State University
"Information from LISA helps us push the envelope on automation and scaling, allowing a team of four to manage over 3000 Firefox build and test systems running 15 different operating systems."
Amy Rich, Manager of Release Engineering Operations at Mozilla
"LISA is the conference that I send my system administrators to so they can bring the latest tools and techniques back to the rest of the team. Much of our current environment can be traced directly back to LISA."
Cory Lueninghoener, Deputy Group Leader of Production High Performance Computing at Los Alamos National Laboratory
"LISA is where I find direction for evolving the my core professional skills."
LISA '13 Attendee
"LISA is the conference that I send my system administrators to so they can bring the latest tools and techniques back to the rest of the team. Much of our current environment can be traced directly back to LISA."
Cory Lueninghoener, Deputy Group Leader of Production High Performance Computing at Los Alamos National Laboratory
LISA: Where systems engineering and operations professionals share real-world knowledge about designing, building, and maintaining the critical systems of our interconnected world.
The LISA conference has long served as the annual vendor-neutral meeting place for the wider system administration community. The LISA14 program recognized the overlap and differences between traditional and modern IT operations and engineering, and developed a highly-curated program around 5 key topics: Systems Engineering, Security, Culture, DevOps, and Monitoring/Metrics. The program included 22 half- and full-day training sessions; 10 workshops; and a conference program consisting of 50 invited talks, panels, refereed paper presentations, and mini-tutorials.
We provide a brief introduction to the R programming and statistics language, with a focus on exploratory data analysis for sysadmins. We assume little prior knowledge of statistics and no prior knowledge of the R language or programming environment. The course includes data input, basic manipulation, visualization and plotting, and basic analysis in R. The instructors will be available in the LISA Labs space after the tutorial for attendees that have additional questions or have brought their own data. R (http://www.r-project.org/) and RStudio (http://www.rstudio.com/), an IDE for R, should be installed prior to attending.
Who should attend:
Sysadmins who would like an introduction to R as a tool for gaining additional insight into their wealth of data using R’s statistical and visualization capabilities. We assume little prior knowledge of R or statistics, but basic mathematical proficiency is recommended.
Take back to work:
Experience with basic methods and data types in R
Experience with basic visualizations in R
Basic understanding of data exploration, and analysis to identify patterns in R, such as correlations, regressions, and decision trees (as time allows)
Topics include:
An introduction to R and the RStudio programming environment
Basic instructions for loading, manipulating, and saving data
Basic functions and algorithms for exploring data, and the types of analysis useful for sysadmins
An introduction to descriptive statistics for single datasets, including: mean, median, mode, range, and distributions
Basic visualizations in R, including histograms, scatterplots, and heatmaps (as time allows)
