Revolution Analytics staff 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 September: Todd Schneider wrote an algorithm in R to find the "most convex" US state (it's NY), and created an animation to show how it works: http://bit.ly/19qzJ2O Rob Hyndman (of the "forecast" package) describes how R-based forecasting saved the Australian government millions, in a video describing his new online course: http://bit.ly/19qzGnO Revolution Analytics sponsored more than 60 local R user groups in 2013, and is now taking sponsorships applications for 2014: http://bit.ly/19qzJ2L R 3.0.2 is now available, with bug fixes and improved documentation support: http://bit.ly/19qzJ2N Some tips for data scientists on using R as part of a command-line tool chain: http://bit.ly/19qzJ2M Replay of a Google Hangout panel discussion on how open-source software including R is changing business: http://bit.ly/19qzGnN Hortonworks shares some resources for getting started with Data Science and R: http://bit.ly/19qzJ2R R represented 57% of the software supplements to the Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics over the past year: http://bit.ly/19qzGE5 On Talk Like a Pirate Day -- Rrrr! -- R was used to chart real-life pirate attacks (http://bit.ly/19qzGnQ), create a pun-inspired pirate flag (http://bit.ly/19qzJ2S), and the Revolution Analytics staff had some pirate fun (http://bit.ly/19qzJ2T). Revolution Analytics partners with Teradata to bring R and big-data statistics into the database: http://bit.ly/19qzJ2U An article in Datanami discusses R in Hadoop: http://bit.ly/19qzJ2X Reports from the alpha test of the Revolution Analytics' RevoScaleR package running in Hadoop: http://bit.ly/19qzGE9 A survey of JSM attendees reveals concerns about data privacy and ethical frameworks for data use: http://bit.ly/19qzJ2V Coursera's online R courses are back on: Computing for Data Analysis started on September 23, and Data Analysis starts on October 28: http://bit.ly/19qzGE7 A neat R-based animation shows the progression of a Metropolis-Hastings algorithm for Bayesian estimation: http://bit.ly/19qzGE8 R was mentioned in articles in Data Informed and TechRepublic: http://bit.ly/19qzGEa There are now more than 125 R user groups worldwide, as this map shows: http://bit.ly/19qzJ2W Slides from two recent Revolution Analytics presentations on: high-performance predictive analytics in R and Hadoop; and Big Data, Big Analytics http://bit.ly/19qzJ2Y A tutorial on how to set up R, Hadoop and RHadoop on a single workstation/laptop (for learning or testing): http://bit.ly/19qzJ2Z R is named the top language for data science for the third year running in the KDNuggets poll: http://bit.ly/19qzJ30 Some non-R stories in the past month included: some terrible data visualizations (http://bit.ly/19qzGEb), a data visualization of checkins in SF (http://bit.ly/19qzJ31), paintings of a retro sci-fi Sweden (http://bit.ly/19qzJje), and software for making 3-D models from 2-D images (http://bit.ly/19qzGEc). Meeting times for local R user groups (http://bit.ly/eC5YQe) can be found on the updated R Community Calendar at: http://bit.ly/bb3naW If you're looking for more articles about R, you can find summaries from previous months at http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/roundups/. You can receive daily blog posts via email using services like blogtrottr.com, or join the Revolution Analytics mailing list at http://revolutionanalytics.com/newsletter to be alerted to new articles on a monthly basis. As always, thanks for the comments and please keep sending suggestions to me at david at revolutionanalytics.com . Don't forget you can also follow the blog using an RSS reader, or by following me on Twitter (I'm @revodavid). Cheers, # David -- David M Smith <david at revolutionanalytics.com> VP of Marketing, Revolution Analytics http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com Tel: +1 (650) 646-9523 (Seattle WA, USA) Twitter: @revodavid We're hiring! www.revolutionanalytics.com/careers