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10 reasons why you should learn R

May 20, 2011
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10. Can't crack that hard Sudoku problem?? Use R!9. Want to pick a skill that will give you an early adopter advantage?? Learn R! It is the leading open source statistical and data analysis programming language, and is heating up! 8. Need to ...

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10 reasons why you should learn R

May 20, 2011
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10. Can't crack that hard Sudoku problem?? Use R!9. Want to pick a skill that will give you an early adopter advantage?? Learn R! It is the leading open source statistical and data analysis programming language, and is heating up! 8. Need to ...

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Vehicle Routing Problem

May 18, 2011
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Vehicle Routing Problem

This is a follow-up to a previous question on VRP. I investigated R libraries and several other options to solve VRP and decided to build a custom desktop application using open source libraries from COIN-OR. Screenshots attached below.Leave a comment ...

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Vehicle Routing Problem

May 18, 2011
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Vehicle Routing Problem

This is a follow-up to a previous question on VRP. I investigated R libraries and several other options to solve VRP and decided to build a custom desktop application using open source libraries from COIN-OR. Screenshots attached below.Leave a comment ...

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Introducing R in the Enterprise

May 2, 2011
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Introducing R in the Enterprise

We've introduced R in the organization!It is running along with the heavy weights of statistical analysis like SAS, SPSS, Matlab. Here's what we did and how we did it...HOW DID IT START?I started learning R last year and loved its simplicity and power....

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Introducing R in the Enterprise

May 2, 2011
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Introducing R in the Enterprise

We've introduced R in the organization!It is running along with the heavy weights of statistical analysis like SAS, SPSS, Matlab. Here's what we did and how we did it...HOW DID IT START?I started learning R last year and loved its simplicity and power....

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Big data problems

April 22, 2011
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Big data problems

I have big data problems.I need to analyze 100s of millions of rows of data and tried hard for 2 weeks to see if I can use R for this. My assessment so far from the experiments...1) R is best for data that fits a computer's RAM (so get more RAM if...

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Big data problems

April 22, 2011
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Big data problems

I have big data problems.I need to analyze 100s of millions of rows of data and tried hard for 2 weeks to see if I can use R for this. My assessment so far from the experiments...1) R is best for data that fits a computer's RAM (so get more RAM if...

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Why learn R?

March 1, 2011
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Why learn R?

I'm introducing R to a few colleagues this week and want to share why learning a software like R is important... Here are a few articles that explain it well... Other reasons?Importance of data science- Couple years ago Google's Chief Economist Hal Var...

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Why learn R?

March 1, 2011
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Why learn R?

I'm introducing R to a few colleagues this week and want to share why learning a software like R is important... Here are a few articles that explain it well... Other reasons?Importance of data science- Couple years ago Google's Chief Economist Hal Var...

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