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 November: A recap of the Strata Hadoop World conference, including presentations from Monsanto and eHarmony on their use of R: http://bit.ly/1gTdWDy How to rank and chart the most frequent hashtags of Twitter users with R: http://bit.ly/1gTdYeo What?s new in Revolution R Enterprise 7 (webinar replay): http://bit.ly/1gTdWDz Using Plotly?s new interface with R, plus reports from R user groups: http://bit.ly/1gTdYep An analysis of World Series Baseball strikeout rates using R: http://bit.ly/1gTdWDA CRAN surpasses the milestone of 5,000 R packages, thanks to the volunteers who maintain the system: http://bit.ly/1gTdYeq A detailed guide to memory usage in R, from Hadley Wickham: http://bit.ly/1gTdYer Running R inside Teradata Database with Revolution R Enterprise (webinar replay): http://bit.ly/1gTdWDB The Human Rights Data Analysis Group uses R to estimate the number of casualties in Syria: http://bit.ly/1gTdWTO Data Scientists coming from computer science backgrounds can learn from the small-data techniques of Statistics ? even with Big Data: http://bit.ly/1gTdYes A tutorial on using iterators in R: http://bit.ly/1gTdYet A Princeton University guide translates common Stata commands into R code: http://bit.ly/1gTdYeu Joseph Rickert surveys the available packages for Bayesian analysis with R: http://bit.ly/1gTdWTS In an interview with DataInformed, I discussed the rise of R as the lingua franca of data science, and how the Big Data revolution has led companies to adopt statistical decision making: http://bit.ly/1gTdYev DataMind?s www.r-fiddle.org is an online scratchpad GUI for R programmers: http://bit.ly/1gTdWTU The new RFacebook package makes it possible to download and analyze your Facebook social network: http://bit.ly/1gTdYey R connections to startups Domino, Plotly and Quandl: http://bit.ly/1gTdWTW A Thanksgiving greeting from Revolution Analytics (with an assist from the cowsay package): http://bit.ly/1gTdYeA Some non-R stories in the past month included: Virgin?s safety dance (http://bit.ly/1gTdYez), a mouse perseveres (http://bit.ly/1gTdWTY), sonification of sorting algorithms (http://bit.ly/1gTdYeB), a marked rise in data scientist job postings (http://bit.ly/1gTdYeC), real-life Mario (http://bit.ly/1gTdWTZ), and comet ISON rounds the sun (http://bit.ly/1gTdWU0). 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