In case you missed it: February 2015 roundup
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In case you missed them, here are some articles from February of particular interest to R users.
The John M. Chambers Statistical Software Award announcement for 2015.
The new R package “distcomp” allows researchers to collaborate on data spread across multiple sites.
David Smith's interview with theCUBE on R, data science, and Microsoft's acquisition of Revolution Analytics.
R is used to measure impact of climate change, and other Strata keynote presentations.
Some tricks for monitoring the progress on parallel R jobs using foreach.
“Analytics Marketplaces” are all the rage today, but CRAN was there first.
A preview of some of the major R-related conferences and events of 2015.
The checkpoint package has been updated to make it even easier to run R scripts with fixed R package versions.
A tutorial to introduce R to users of Microsoft Excel.
R used to assess the “virality” of posts on new-media sites like Buzzfeed.
A review of the HP Workshop on Distributed Computing in R featuring Luke Tierney, Dirk Eddelbuettel, Martin Morgan, Simon Urbanek and other R luminaries.
R is a top-ranked language on GitHub, according to statistics like number of repositories, code pushes and number of forks.
You can use the rcrunchbase package to access data on startup companies.
The R package “syuzhet” applies sentiment analysis to novels to infer their dramatic arc.
The new “quickcheck” package provides assertion-based testing with random inputs for R.
A theorem for calculating an upper bound for the generalization error of a machine learning classifier.
Some practical advice for sharing Shiny applications with shinyapps.io.
A visualization of Paris's street orientations reveals the history of the city.
General interest stories (not related to R) in the past month included: how our brains trick us into seeing the wrong colors, an hilarious parody of cooking shows, a new ASA website to help journalists with Statistics, the statistical model behind the rules of cricket, and why rivers meander.
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