For almost 10 years, 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 October: Peter Provost ports some 80's-era BASIC programs for kids to R: https://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/10/gravedigger-in-r.html In a podcast for Fringe FM, I discuss the ethics of AI, Microsoft and Open Source, and the R Community: https://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/10/fringe-fm-podcast.html Roundup of AI, Machine Learning and Data Science news from September 2018: https://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/10/ai-roundup-oct-2018.html In this episode of "Guy in a Cube", R is used to visualize Anscombe's Quartet via Power BI: https://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/10/anscombes-quartet.html Di Cook suggests using computer vision to automate statistical model assessment for machine learning in the 2018 Belz Lecture: https://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/10/human-vs-computer.html R provides the analysis behind a front-page story on bridge safety in the Baltimore Sun: https://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/10/bridge-safety-in-r.html Tomas Kalibera describes the big impacts of a small tweak to the logical comparison operators in R: https://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/10/index.html The Economist is now using R to calculate its famous "Big Mac Index": https://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/10/big-mac-index.html Behind-the-scenes details of how R gets built on Windows, from a presentation by Jeroen Ooms: https://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/10/how-r-gets-built-on-windows.html The R Consortium has accepted another round of grant applications for R community projects: https://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/10/r-consortium-grant-applications-due-october-31.html A list of upcoming R conferences: https://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/10/a-few-upcoming-r-conferences.html A recap of AI, Machine Learning and Data Science announcements from the Microsoft Ignite conference: https://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/10/ignite-ai-announcements.html And some general interest stories (not necessarily related to R): * A lesson on diversity: the Parable of the Polygons https://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/10/because-its-friday-parable-of-the-polygons.html * The story behind the baseball scene in The Naked Gun: https://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/10/because-its-friday-hey-its-enrico-palazzo.html * Public Key Cryptography, as explained by IKEA: https://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/10/because-its-friday-if-ikea-did-algorithms.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