I write about R every weekday at the Revolutions blog:
http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com
and every month I post a summary of articles from the previous month
of particular interest to readers of r-help.
In case you missed them, here are some articles related to R from the
month of June:
The FDA goes on the record that it's OK to use R for drug trials:
http://bit.ly/M0OoqA
A review of talks at the useR! 2012 conference: http://bit.ly/M0Oq1O
Using the negative binomial distribution to convert monthly fecundity
into the chances of having a baby in a given time period:
http://bit.ly/M0Oq1P
Some benchmarks and a video demonstration of big-data Tweedie models
with Revolution R Enterprise: http://bit.ly/M0Oqii
Why Orbitz's R-based models present more expensive hotels to Mac
users: http://bit.ly/M0Oq1Q
How to convert a rugby score to an equivalent soccer score, with GAMs:
http://bit.ly/M0Oq1R
Performance improvements in R 2.15.1: http://bit.ly/M0OoqB
I talk about R for data science in a DM Radio podcast: http://bit.ly/M0Oq1S
CIO magazine says R is a Big Data open source technology to watch:
http://bit.ly/M0OoqO
Birthday probabilities aren't uniform. US census data analysis reveals
unlikely days to be born, as a calendar heatmap based on simulation
(http://bit.ly/M0Oq1T) and a time series (http://bit.ly/M0OoqC).
R makes the cover (with Hadoop and NoSQL) of ComputerWorld magazine:
http://bit.ly/M0OoqD
The "killer app" for R with Hadoop: converting the "crude
oil" of
unstructured data into the "refined gasoline" of structured data:
http://bit.ly/M0OoqN
A video with several demonstrations of data mining with R: http://bit.ly/M0Oq1W
Info on the new Revolution R Enterprise 6.0 (based on R 2.14.2),
released in June: http://bit.ly/KjraH3
A Government Security News article on applications of R in government:
http://bit.ly/M0Oqin
Pat Burn's "Inferno-ish R" describes the influences that shaped R,
and
includes an historic photo of Robert and Ross: http://bit.ly/M0Oq1X
Other non-R-related stories in the past month included: the
improbability of finding a soulmate (http://bit.ly/M0OoqI), the
Fibonacci sequence in a Tool song (http://bit.ly/M0Oqie), using
randomized trials for government policy (http://bit.ly/M0Oqih), a
Battlestar Galactica game parody (http://bit.ly/M0OoqP), a Lego-themed
movie quiz (http://bit.ly/M0OoqR), the awe of Big Data
(http://bit.ly/M0OoqQ), and Andromeda on a collision course
(http://bit.ly/M0OoqS).
There are new R user groups in Ankara and Toronto
(http://bit.ly/M0Oqit). Meeting times for local R user groups
(http://bit.ly/eC5YQe) can be found on the updated R Community
Calendar at:
http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/calendar.html
If you're looking for more articles about R, you can find summaries
from previous months at http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/roundups/.
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Cheers,
# David
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