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...nsist of two parts: invited lectures and user-contributed sessions (abstract submission will be available online later this year). Prior to the conference, there will be tutorials on R (proposals for tutorials should be sent before October 29, 2010, see below). INVITED SPEAKERS Adrian Bowman, Lee Edlefsen, Ulrike Gr?mping, Wolfgang Huber, Brian Ripley, Jonathan Rougier, Simon Urbanek, and Brandon Whitcher. USER-CONTRIBUTED SESSIONS The conference will feature both talks and posters illustrating the use of R in practice. Contributions are welcome that introduce recent developments in the R Project...

...nsist of two parts: invited lectures and user-contributed sessions (abstract submission will be available online later this year). Prior to the conference, there will be tutorials on R (proposals for tutorials should be sent before October 29, 2010, see below). INVITED SPEAKERS Adrian Bowman, Lee Edlefsen, Ulrike Gr?mping, Wolfgang Huber, Brian Ripley, Jonathan Rougier, Simon Urbanek, and Brandon Whitcher. USER-CONTRIBUTED SESSIONS The conference will feature both talks and posters illustrating the use of R in practice. Contributions are welcome that introduce recent developments in the R Project...

...d in New Zealand. An article in InfoWorld notes that R is "a programming language on the rise": http://bit.ly/aLLdU9 O'Reilly has published a "Rough Cuts" preview of the forthcoming "R Cookbook" by Paul Teetor: http://bit.ly/cUC5da Revolution Analytics names Lee Edlefsen as Chief Scientist: http://bit.ly/a9b7zc Other non-R-related stories in the past month included the Data Science Venn Diagram (http://bit.ly/d5AzgN), busting gay stereotypes with data analysis (http://bit.ly/aRza7H), World Statistics Day (http://bit.ly/agxfjO), Arthur C Clarke's uncanny predic...

...Analytics: http://bit.ly/fBeeWP Joseph Rickert shares an example of building a model in R and exporting it to PMML for use with ADAPA: http://bit.ly/e8LGAN Violins of volatility provide a novel way of visualizing financial volatility: http://bit.ly/hkFzpe Revolution Analytics chief scientist Lee Edlefsen is interviewed at the Structure Big Data Conference in this five-minute video: http://bit.ly/ePYpt0 Other non-R-related stories in the past month included: Heritage Health and Kaggle have launched a 2-year competition with $3.2M in prizemoney for predicting hospitalization from health data (http:/...