similar to: OT : Interview with Anne Milley ,SAS

Hi List, This is a slightly non technical ,hence OT topic. Here is an Interview with Anne Milley of the SAS Institute. Anne Milley is director of product marketing, SAS Institute . In part 2 of the interview Anne talks of immigration in technology areas, open source networks ,how she misses coding ,and software as a service especially SAS Institute’s offering . She also reveals some preview on

Dear List, Please find an interview from Michael Zeller ,CEO, Zementis. Mike talks about how to use an existing model ( created in R) , using PMML as an intermediate for exporting the model, and deploying it on a cloud computer for as low as 1 $ per hour. Regards, Ajay *Ajay-* *What are the traditional rivals to scoring solutions offered by you. How does ADAPA compare to each of them. Case

Dear All, Slightly off -non technical topic ( but hey it is Friday) Following last week's interview with REvolution Computing which makes enterprise versions of R, here is another interview with the rapidly growing company Blue Reference CEOPaul van Eikeren at <http://www.decisionstats.com/2009/06/04/interview-inference-for-r/>

Corrected Links > Dear List, > Please find an interview with Richard Schultz, CEO REvolution Computing. > REvolution Computing just launched their latest product, commercial as well > as enterprise versions of R which include service contracts and tech > support. > > The interview is viewable at >

Dear List, I recently got the chance to interview Jon Peck of SPSS Inc, a pioneering technical statistician working since 1983 (when there were only two substantial statistical software companies as per him ;) (not anymore ;) and currently he is a Principal Software Engineer and Technical Advisor at SPSS. Jon talks of SPSS Inc's involvement with the Open Source, of scripting languages

A SAS spokesperson has confirmed to this blog that they have invested in the R ?Core project to help build next generation algorithms . Details are sketchy but indications of some shift on cloud hosted SAS ,called SaaS are emerging.Also includes some details on Jim Davis ,SVP SAS marketing's statement on BI and Anne Milley having a new assignment within SAS Institute. Read more here -

Ashlee Vance's article on R in the New York Times. This is typical of the New York Times. Because they get to coast on the prestige and reputation of their brand , they have a history of just this sort of journalistic sloppiness. Whether it's the author or the editor at fault doesn't really matter, they do this screw-up all the time. Look, if you write an article on the first page of

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/02/16/sas-warms-to-open-source-one-letter-at-a-time/ SAS Warms to Open-Source One Letter at a TimeBy ASHLEE VANCE<http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/author/ashlee-vance/> The SAS Institute has borrowed a page from Sesame Street. It is now sponsoring the letter 'R.' Last month, I wrote an

Dear R community, Here is an interview with David Smith, Director of Community at REvolution Computing. David talks of the exciting work being done at REvolution to help make R reach out to even more users. http://www.decisionstats.com/2009/05/29/interview-david-smith-revolution-computing/ Best, Ajay Ohri [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

An interview with Chief Marketing Officer of SAS Institute, Jim Davis. Here is an extract- http://www.decisionstats.com/2009/06/05/interview-jim-davis-sas-institute/ *Ajay -It is rare to find a major software company that has zero involvement with open source movement (or as I call it with peer-reviewed code). Could you name some of SAS Institute’s contribution to open source? What could be

Dear List, Please find a frank interview with Phil Rack, creator of Bridge to R ( from both SAS and WPS interfaces). For those unaware of WPS- it is basically a SAS language compiler (read SAS code,writes SAS code,Reads and writes SAS datasets) ,priced at 660 $ a licence ( or estimated 10 times cheaper than Base SAS. The UK based WPC held, WPS doesnt have advanced statistical facilities like

R and its GUI Rattle helped me establish a data mining consulting startup on my own, without taking bank credit . People I met on the forum and especially books like rforsasandspssusers.com/ <http://rforsasandspssusers.com/> helped me ease the transition to the new Object Oriented method from the earlier - even a monkey can create shakespeare if he types enough kind of analytics software.

Greetings all, This isn't a request for help, but I thought the following article from the New York Times would be of interest to you all. Enjoy! Adam *Data Analysts Captivated by R's Power* By ASHLEE VANCE Published ONLINE: January 6, 2009 URL: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/07/technology/business-computing/07program.html A version of this article appeared in print edition on

Hi List, I had the pleasure of taking Dr Bob Muenchen's interview for his upcoming book R For SAS and SPSS users. He has spent 27 years in this field while I have spent almost that much on earth. So this is more like a fan blog interview. I thought it would be of use to people curious about R, or even SAS , or SPSS if they have not worked on either of these packages before. Having fought my

This article is accompanied by nice pictures of Robert and Ross. Data Analysts Captivated by Power of R http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/07/technology/business-computing/07program.html January 7, 2009 Data Analysts Captivated by R?s Power By ASHLEE VANCE To some people R is just the 18th letter of the alphabet. To others, it?s the rating on racy movies, a measure of an attic?s insulation or

On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 11:05 AM, ajay ohri <ajayohri at yahoo.com> wrote: > > FYI..not a R -Help Topic, buy I dont know which list to post discussions like this. > Regards, > Ajay > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: ajay ohri <ajayohri at yahoo.com> > Date: Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 10:46 AM > Subject: Re: R "Threatens" SAS, According to

Dear Lists, Here are my latest posts on retrenching and locating facilities better. Do you have anything in academic papers that use data mining- analytics for 1) Better Employee ROI quantitative measurement or cutting costs rationally based on data rather across the board. 2) Locating facilities based on pure quant based approaches than local supply demand conditions. Specific application for

Dear List, Apologies in advance for non bloggers for the spam on the slightly off topic. This is an invitation to all R language bloggers to help spread the world at a forum where leading authors come?together. Current only 1 R blogger is there- David Smith, from Revolution Computing. There are many from SAS (Jason Burke,Gary Conkins) ,one from SPSS (Jon Peck) and others from SAP,Aster Data

Hi, I am a new user of R 2.8.1. I use Tinn-R for code editing. I use a windows 2003 system with 1 GB RAM. I am interested to generate dashboard and reports based on data from MS Access. These reports need to be posted on a weekly basis to the web. The reporting interface should provide facilities for "what if" scenarios. Is it possible to interface R analysis results to good open

Guess Dave wasn''t going to blow his own trumpet so someone else has to do it for him. An interesting interview with Dave that filled in the gaps on the About Me page I had asked about... http://on-ruby.blogspot.com/2006/10/ruby-hacker-interview-dave-balmain.html -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.