R/Finance 2012 is this weekend

Gather 'round, R-users, forecasters, algo traders, and financial analysts.  The R in Finance conference is this Friday and Saturday, May 11 & 12, in Chicago.  All your favorite buzzwords, from algo trading, to data scientist, to big data, will be there---with talks given by the top experts in the R landscape.  Jeff Ryan's pre-conference session on processing full-market data looks particularly solid. Sign up now while there's still space.  I'll be attending, and you're welcome to contact me before to arrange a meet-up.  If you're an analyst or data professional, but finance isn't your field, I still recommend going.  The R finance community has been a big source of innovation on large data set processing, real-time processing, and time series analysis.