Since 2008, Microsoft 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 June: An animated visualization of global migration, created in R by Guy Abel: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/06/global-migration-animated-with-r.html My take on the question, Should you learn R or Python for data science? http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/06/python-or-r.html The BBC and Financial Times use R -- without post-processing -- for publication graphics: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/06/ft-bbc-uses-r.html "Handling Strings in R", a free e-book by Gaston Sanchez, has been updated: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/06/handling-strings-with-r.html My AI, Machine Learning and Data Science roundup for June 2018: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/06/ai-roundup-june-2018.html The PYPL Popularity of Languages Index ranks R as the 7th most popular programming language: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/06/pypl-programming-language-trends.html The "lime" package provides tools for interpreting machine learning models in R: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/06/lime-package.html An R vignette by Paige Bailey on detecting unconscious bias in predictive models: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/06/understanding-bias.html Microsoft R Open 3.5.0 has been released http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/06/microsoft-r-open-350-now-available.html (with a subsequent fix for Debian systems: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/06/hotfix-for-mro-350-on-linux.html) Slides from the webinar, What's New in Azure for Machine Learning and AI: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/06/whats-new-in-azure-for-machine-learning-and-ai.html And some general interest stories (not necessarily related to R): * The Curvature Blindness Illusion: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/06/because-its-friday-wavy-lines.html * Lioness v Wrestlers in tug-of-war: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/06/because-its-friday-the-lioness-sleeps-tonight.html * A comedian imagines an AI writing a TV commercial: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/06/because-its-friday-olive-garden.html * A fur seal, transcribed: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/06/because-its-friday-sealese.html * An architecture error and a near-disaster in NYC: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/06/because-its-friday-buildings-shake.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