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Hello everyone. There is a new competition, outlined on the blog dataists<http://www.dataists.com/2010/10/using-data-tools-to-find-data-tools-the-yo-dawg-of-data-hacking/>, inviting us to analyse statistics of the use of R packages (collected from 52 R users), to create a R-package suggestion engine for ourselves. Since I noticed several bloggers already wrote abo...

...a forthcoming integration between Revolution R and Hadoop: http://bit.ly/gF7LEn Other non-R-related stories in the past month included another lottery coincidence (http://bit.ly/hN1qHU), epidemiology of unusual diseases from 1632 (http://bit.ly/iceodU), a discussion on Statistics moderated by the Dataists on Reddit (http://bit.ly/h5r25S), a visualization of asteroid discoveries (http://bit.ly/enidWV), the the emerging discipline of "digital humanities" (http://bit.ly/eMbzCw), and the science of airport security (http://bit.ly/eiMyIY). On a lighter note, we had: a T-shirt for Stats geeks (...