Revolution Analytics staff and guests 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 August: R is the most popular software in the KDNuggets poll for the 4th year running: http://bit.ly/1AaTLsu The frequency of R user group meetings continues to rise, and there are now 147 R user groups worldwide: http://bit.ly/1AaTINi A video interview with me (David Smith) at the useR! 2014 conference: http://bit.ly/1AaTINj In a provocative op-ed, Norm Matloff worries that Statistics is losing ground to Computer Science: http://bit.ly/1AaTLss A new certification program for Revolution R Enterprise: http://bit.ly/1AaTJ3D An interactive map of R user groups around the world, created with R and Shiny: http://bit.ly/1AaTLst Using R to generate calendar entries (and create photo opportunities): http://bit.ly/1AaTINk Integrating R with production systems with Domino: http://bit.ly/1AaTLsw The New York Times compares data science to janitorial work: http://bit.ly/1AaTLsv Rdocumentation.org provides search for CRAN, GitHub and BioConductor packages and publishes a top-10 list of packages by downloads: http://bit.ly/1AaTLsz An update to the "airlines" data set (the "iris" of Big Data) with flights through the end of 2012: http://bit.ly/1AaTLsx A consultant compares the statistical capabilities of R, Matlab, SAS, Stata and SPSS: http://bit.ly/1AaTINo Using heatmaps to explore correlations in financial portfolios: http://bit.ly/1AaTJ3C Video of John Chambers' keynote at the useR! 2014 conference on the interfaces, efficiency, big data and the history of R: http://bit.ly/1AaTLsy CIO magazine says the open source R language is becoming pervasive: http://bit.ly/1AaTJ3E Reviews of some presentations at the JSM 2014 conference that used R: http://bit.ly/1AaTJ3F GRAN is a new R package to manage package repositories to support reproducibility: http://bit.ly/1AaTLIM The ASA launches a PR campaign to promote the role of statisticians in society: http://bit.ly/1AaTLIN Video replay of the webinar Applications in R, featuring examples from several companies using R: http://bit.ly/1AaTJ3G General interest stories (not related to R) in the past month included: dance moves from Japan (http://bit.ly/1AaTLIP), an earthquake's signal in personal sensors (http://bit.ly/1AaTLIQ), a 3-minute movie in less than 4k (http://bit.ly/1AaTLIR), smooth time-lapse videos (http://bit.ly/1AaTLIS), representing mazes as trees (http://bit.ly/1AaTJ3K), and the view from inside a fireworks display (http://bit.ly/1AaTLIV). Meeting times for local R user groups (http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/local-r-groups.html) 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/. 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 or via Twitter (I'm @revodavid). Cheers, # David -- David M Smith <david at revolutionanalytics.com> Chief Community Officer, Revolution Analytics http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com Tel: +1 (650) 646-9523 (Chicago IL, USA) Twitter: @revodavid -- Try Enterprise R Now! <https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/seller-profile/ref=_ptnr_emailfooter?ie=UTF8&id=3c6536d3-8115-4bc0-a713-be58e257a7be> Get a 14 Day Free Trial of Revolution R Enterprise on AWS Marketplace