If you are taking the Coursera classes on R taught by Jeff Leak, Roger Peng, and Brian Caffo of the Johns Hopkins University, Earl Glynn will be available to discuss the course assignments and help with any questions you might have.
Coursera is for profit company offering massive open online courses in a variety of areas. The Biostatistics Department of Johns Hopkins University is hosting a series of nine classes on Data Science, with a strong emphasis on R in many of these classes.
You can take these classes for free. All of the work is done online and on your own time schedule.
For a fee, you can get a specialization certificate that documents that you successfully completed all the requirements for these classes.
There will be assignments, but you are not required to do these unless you are working towards the specialization certificate.
The first three of these classes,
 - "The Data Scientist's Toolbox"
 - "R Programming" and
 - "Getting and Cleaning Data"
start on April 5. These classes will be repeated again starting on May 5 and June 2, and other classes will open as well on May 5 and June 2.
Earl has taken several Coursera classes and is a beta tester / designated local expert for this series of classes.
Everyone is welcome to attend. You don't have to be part of the paid specialization certificate program to attend. You don't even have to be signed up for the classes in April to attend. If you're curious about Coursera and R, come and find out more.
For more details about Courseara and the Data Science classes go to:
https://www.coursera.org/specialization/jhudatascience/1

[If you are a recruiter or an employer, and wishing to attend, please RSVP directly to Kunjan Shah.]
For the April meetup, Android developer, Roger O'Dell will discuss Supporting Multiple Android Devices - Part 1. In this discussion he will have a brief presentation, and the rest will be demo based. Part 1 of this 2 part series will focus on devices from Android 4.0 forward ranging from phones to tablets. The demo will consist of an Android Studio application showing a Master/Detail, Fragments, using the Layout Alias, and JSON data. This demo will be hosted on GitHub and will be available to everyone to checkout later.
If you have a project you want to show and talk with the group about for future meetups, please contact us. If you would like to hear about any specific topic in any future meetups, please feel free to let the group know!
Please note the meetup location - 
Enterprise Center of Johnson County 
8527 Bluejacket Street, Lenexa, KS 66214
Agenda:
6:00-6:30 - Socializing and meeting other members.
6:30-7:30 - Presentations from members
7:30-8 - Follow-up discussions with members.

Join us as we continue to brainstorm the design of Kansas City's 311 Daily Brief app.  We will also mockup a 311 app and define use cases for it.
Hack Night is a weekly event hosted by Code for America, so come by and work on a civic project you have already started, start a new project, or collaborate with others on their projects. Bonus: we typically have snacks and drinks!
Come meet and work with other civic-minded folks passionate about open government and civic tech! Hack Night is a weekly event hosted by Code for America, so come by and work on a civic project you have already started, start a new project, or collaborate with others on their projects. Bonus: we typically have snacks and booze!
Be sure and sign up at the national Brigade site: brigade.codeforamerica.org
And join our Google+ community too!

Looking for ideas from the community on talks. Please post openly in this forum or contact Leslie Thomas-Holt directly if you have ideas for talks or lightning talks you would like to present. Pizza and soda will be provided.

Madelaine Googol will review a bit about variables, vectors, and data frames and then introduce a broad range of graphical display methods in R: scatter plots, line plots, legends, histograms, barplots, multifigure plotting, boxplots, colors, and heatmaps. If there is time, Steve Simon will discuss how to add trend lines, splines, and smoothing curves to a scatterplot.

Help teach people how to connect to and use the Internet!
We conduct basic digital literacy classes twice a week at our facility at 31st and Troost. Digital mentors assist new Internet users through guided hands-on learning experiences during the two-hour sessions.
Most of those who participate are senior citizens and low income individuals.  This is a chance to make a real impact on someone's life.
Some of the topics we cover are:
Computer Basics

Keyboarding and Mouse skills

Searching for and applying for jobs online
Intro to Social Media
Intro to Google Drive and Docs
Trainers lead a class, assess the learners skills and ensure the learners complete at least 2 (two) class sessions.
Mentors assist a trainer, by helping any learners that need assistance with current lesson, each mentor will help 5 learners. They assist them with using the mouse, where to type the URL, how to save a file, graphic or bookmark a webpage.
Call Jackie at 816-559-7077 to let us know that you are coming.