Since 2008, Microsoft (formerly Revolution Analytics) staff and guests have written about R 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 December: Hadley Wickham's Shiny app for making eggnog: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/12/merry-christmas-and-happy-new-year.html Using R to analyze the vocal range of pop singers: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/12/because-its-friday-deck-the-halls.html A tour of the data.table package from its creator, Matt Dowle: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/12/data-table-video.html The European R Users Meeting (eRum) will be held in Budapest, May 14-18: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/12/erum-2018.html Winners of the ASA Police Data Challenge student visualization contest: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/12/police-data-challenge.html An introduction to seplyr, a re-skinning of the dplyr package to a standard evaluation interface: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/12/introduction-to-seplyr.html How to run R (and the rest of the Linux ecosystem) in the Windows Subsystem for Linux: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/12/r-in-the-windows-subsystem-for-linux.html A chart of Bechdel scores, showing representation of women in movies over time: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/12/a-chart-of-bechdel-test-scores.html The British Ecological Society's Guide to Reproducible Science advocates the use of R and Rmarkdown: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/12/bes-reproducible-science.html Eight modules from the Microsoft AI School cover Microsoft R and SQL Server ML Services: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/12/ml-server-ai-path.html And some general interest stories (not necessarily related to R): * Kate Crawford's keynote from NIPS 2017 on the issue of bias in artificial intelligence applications: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/12/the-trouble-with-bias-by-kate-crawford.html, a topic also covered in the Microsoft AI Blog http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/12/on-the-biases-in-data.html * The original Star Wars movie was a dud before it was rescued in editing: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/12/because-its-friday-editing-star-wars.html * I'm now a member of the Cloud Developer Advocates team at Microsoft: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/12/cloud-advocate.html * A Disney animator draws in 3-D with a virtual reality kit: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/12/because-its-friday-3-d-animation.html * A very, very wide web page visualizes the Solar System to scale: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/12/because-its-friday-1-pixel-moon.html As always, thanks for the comments and please keep sending suggestions to me at davidsmi at microsoft.com or via Twitter (I'm @revodavid). Cheers, # David -- David M Smith <davidsmi at microsoft.com> Developer Advocate, Microsoft Cloud & Enterprise Tel: +1 (312) 9205766 (Chicago IL, USA) Twitter: @revodavid | Blog: ?http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com
The blog post that the vocal range directs to is *highly* offensive and off color and in very poo taste to share with this group. -----Original Message----- From: R-help [mailto:r-help-bounces at r-project.org] On Behalf Of David Smith (CDA) via R-help Sent: Tuesday, January 09, 2018 12:47 PM To: r-help at r-project.org Subject: [R] Revolutions blog: December 2017 roundup Since 2008, Microsoft (formerly Revolution Analytics) staff and guests have written about R 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 December: Hadley Wickham's Shiny app for making eggnog: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/12/merry-christmas-and-happy-new-year.html Using R to analyze the vocal range of pop singers: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/12/because-its-friday-deck-the-halls.html A tour of the data.table package from its creator, Matt Dowle: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/12/data-table-video.html The European R Users Meeting (eRum) will be held in Budapest, May 14-18: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/12/erum-2018.html Winners of the ASA Police Data Challenge student visualization contest: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/12/police-data-challenge.html An introduction to seplyr, a re-skinning of the dplyr package to a standard evaluation interface: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/12/introduction-to-seplyr.html How to run R (and the rest of the Linux ecosystem) in the Windows Subsystem for Linux: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/12/r-in-the-windows-subsystem-for-linux.html A chart of Bechdel scores, showing representation of women in movies over time: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/12/a-chart-of-bechdel-test-scores.html The British Ecological Society's Guide to Reproducible Science advocates the use of R and Rmarkdown: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/12/bes-reproducible-science.html Eight modules from the Microsoft AI School cover Microsoft R and SQL Server ML Services: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/12/ml-server-ai-path.html And some general interest stories (not necessarily related to R): * Kate Crawford's keynote from NIPS 2017 on the issue of bias in artificial intelligence applications: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/12/the-trouble-with-bias-by-kate-crawford.html, a topic also covered in the Microsoft AI Blog http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/12/on-the-biases-in-data.html * The original Star Wars movie was a dud before it was rescued in editing: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/12/because-its-friday-editing-star-wars.html * I'm now a member of the Cloud Developer Advocates team at Microsoft: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/12/cloud-advocate.html * A Disney animator draws in 3-D with a virtual reality kit: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/12/because-its-friday-3-d-animation.html * A very, very wide web page visualizes the Solar System to scale: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/12/because-its-friday-1-pixel-moon.html As always, thanks for the comments and please keep sending suggestions to me at davidsmi at microsoft.com or via Twitter (I'm @revodavid). Cheers, # David -- David M Smith <davidsmi at microsoft.com> Developer Advocate, Microsoft Cloud & Enterprise Tel: +1 (312) 9205766 (Chicago IL, USA) Twitter: @revodavid | Blog: ?http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com ______________________________________________ R-help at r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
Rolf Turner
2018-Jan-09 20:21 UTC
[R] [FORGED] Re: Revolutions blog: December 2017 roundup
On 10/01/18 07:47, Doran, Harold wrote:> The blog post that the vocal range directs to is *highly* offensive and > off color and in very poo taste to share with this group.Huh? And furthermore ???. cheers, Rolf P. S. Moreover: "poo taste"!!! :-) R. -- Technical Editor ANZJS Department of Statistics University of Auckland Phone: +64-9-373-7599 ext. 88276
Rolf Turner
2018-Jan-09 20:45 UTC
[R] [FORGED] RE: [FORGED] Re: Revolutions blog: December 2017 roundup
On 10/01/18 09:31, Doran, Harold wrote:> It would be better for you to instead read the blog post that > uses extremely derogatory language instead of your silly post below.I did read it, somewhat cursorily I admit, and saw no derogatory language whatever, which is why I was puzzled. cheers, Rolf -- Technical Editor ANZJS Department of Statistics University of Auckland Phone: +64-9-373-7599 ext. 88276
Rui Barradas
2018-Jan-09 22:11 UTC
[R] [FORGED] RE: [FORGED] Re: Revolutions blog: December 2017 roundup
Hello, I didn't like the video but that has nothing to do with the language, I just happen to prefer other type(s) of music. Rui Barradas On 1/9/2018 8:45 PM, Rolf Turner wrote:> > On 10/01/18 09:31, Doran, Harold wrote: > >> It would be better for you to instead read the blog post that >> uses extremely derogatory language instead of your silly post below. > > I did read it, somewhat cursorily I admit, and saw no derogatory > language whatever, which is why I was puzzled. > > cheers, > > Rolf >