It's been a little while since we've rounded up the new local R user groups around the world, so here are the latest ones on the scene: Edmonton, Canada: The Edmonton R User Group is the first in the Canadian province of Alberta and the most northerly group in North America. It started up back in October last year...
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Mathematica adds R connectivity
Wolfram's Mathematica is the lastest software to add a connection to R, joining a long list of applications providing R access to their users. Mathematica 9 will use a Java-based link allow users to exchange data between Mathematica and R and to execute R code from within Mathematica. (via Ajay Ohri)
The four D’s of programming’s future: data, distributed, device, democratized
O'Reilly's Edd Dumbill observes that with the ubiquity of powerful computers now tied into all levels our daily lives, programming is getting dangerous: today's programmers are "like ambitious waiters stacking one teacup on top of the other". His prescription? All programmers will have to adopt programming paradigms that have previously been the domain of specialists: distributed computing, device computing,...
Webinar Jan 24: Using R with Hadoop
In two weeks (on January 24), Think Big Analytics' Jeffrey Breen will present a new webinar on using R with Hadoop. Here's the webinar description: R and Hadoop are changing the way organizations manage and utilize big data. Think Big Analytics and Revolution Analytics are helping clients plan, build, test and implement innovative solutions based on the two technologies...
Elements of Statistical Learning: free book download
The go-to bible for this data scientist and many others is The Elements of Statistical Learning: Data Mining, Inference, and Prediction by Trevor Hastie, Robert Tibshirani, and Jerome Friedman. Each of the authors is an expert in machine learning / prediction, and in some cases invented the techniques we turn to today to make sense of big data: ensemble...
R/Finance 2013: May 17-18 in Chicago
This year's R/Finance conference on applied finance with R is scheduled for May 17-18 in Chicago, and promises once again to be the go-to conference for anyone using R in the finance industry. The keynote speakers have been announced, and it's a great lineup: Sanjiv Das, Professor of Finance and Chair of Finance Dept, Santa Clara University’s Leavey School...
How to make your own 3-D sculpture with R
We've mentioned before how you can use R to design 3-D objects. Now, thanks to the latest version of the rgl package, you can produce real-world 3-D objects with R as well. The rgl package has long made it possible to create virtual 3-D objects in R, and export them as animations like this: But now, package author Duncan...
What your choice of statistics software says about you
Sean Taylor, a PhD candidate in Information Systems at NYU’s Stern School of Business, describes the "Statistics Software Signal" and his observation that some software packages are correlated with bad science. While, I don't agree with all of his points (some fine analyses have been done with Stata, for example), I thought this was an interesting take on the...
R version 3 scheduled for April
Ringing in the New Year, Peter Dalgaard announced yesterday on behalf of the entire R Core Team that the R language will graduate to Version 3 around April 1. This is only the third time that R has incremented its primary version number. Version 1.0.0 (released on February 29, 2000) was the first version deemed stable for production use....
24 Christmas Gifts from is.R
The is.R blog has been on a roll in December with their Advent CalendaR feature: daily tips about R to unwrap each day leading up to Christmas. If you haven't been following it, start with today's post and scroll down. Sadly there isn't a tag to collect all these great posts together, but here are a few highlights: December...
Zero Inflated Models and Generalized Linear Mixed Models with R.
Zuur, Saveliev, Ieno (2012).
