In the US, at least. Via The Consumerist: Incidentally, the US FDA doesn't publish pyramids like this any more: it's now a garish personalized 2-d triangle with stripes. But at least it doesn't make the error of dimension committed by the left-hand pyramid: that orange section is a hell of a lot larger than...
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More on the Economist’s special report on big data
I totally missed this the other day, but there's much more to that special report on the data deluge in The Economist. (Thanks to readers SB and DN for pointing this out.) There's an total of nine articles in the report (you can find them all in the Related Items box on this page),...
Intelligent Enterprise: You Can Predict that R Will Succeed
Analyst David Stodder at Intelligent Enterprise also noted the activity around R at the recent Predictive Analytics World conference in San Francisco, and he reviews his impressions in a column today. In fact, he attributes the increasing prominence of predictive analytics to R: Possibly the most important factor influencing the spread of predictive analytics...
Analyzing Google’s Winter Olympics Search Traffic with R
The Official Google Blog today includes an analysis of Google's search traffic related to the recently-concluded Winter Olympics, correlating various high-profile events with searches from particular countries. For example, traffic from the United States shows the expected diurnal cycle but with promintent peaks for the opening ceremony and the hockey matches featuring the USA...
MySQL alum Zack Urlocker join’s REvolution’s board
As you might have heard from this morning's press release, we've just welcomed a new member to REvolution's board of directors: Zack Urlocker. Zack has an impeccable open-source pedigree: until recently, he was responsible for engineering and marketing at MySQL, the wildly successful open-source database company recently acquired by Oracle (via its acquisition of...
ACM Data Mining Camp, March 20
Following last year's successful unconference on data mining, the Bay Area Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) will again host the 2010 ACM Data Mining Camp on March 20 in San Jose, CA. The event is free and runs from 11:15am - 7:30pm, with an optional 2-hour pre-camp training in the morning. (REvolution Computing is...
The Economist reports on the information explosion
The current edition of The Economist includes a "special report on managing information", targeting the issue of the information explosion / data deluge / whatever you want to call it these days. It includes the usual attributes of the problem: data is being collected faster than we can store it, astronomers are creating petabytes...
REvolution Computing hiring parallel computing developer
We're looking for a programmer with experience in high-performance computing and the R system to work on the ParallelR suite and other data-analysis projects. Sound like anyone you know? Check out the details at the link below. REvolution Computing careers: Parallel Computing Developer
Steve Miller on R at Predictive Analytics World
At the Information Management blog, Steve Miller has provided two great reviews (here and here) of last week's Predictive Analytics World conference, including a recap of the Bay Area User's Group meeting featuring John Chambers. (My personal highlight from John's talk? A photograph of the very first sketch of what was to become the...
Because it’s Friday: Visualizing an email chain
We've all been there: someone sends an email to a mailing list with a Reply-To directing responses back to the mailing list. Before long, someone replies (unwittingly, to everyone) to ask to be taken of the list. And before long, the entire affair devolves into an endless cycle of requests to unsubscribe and pleas...
Zero Inflated Models and Generalized Linear Mixed Models with R.
Zuur, Saveliev, Ieno (2012).
