Major retailers like Williams Sonoma use UpStream Software for marketing analytics, including revenue attribution, targeting, and optimization. In the video below Tess Nesbitt (senior statistician at UpStream) describes how she uses Revolution R Enterprise and Hadoop to figure out the impact on various marketing channels (for example direct mail, email offers, and catalogs) on consumer retail sales. (The slides...

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This is an overview of tools for speeding up your R code that I wrote for the Davis R Users’ Group.

First, Ask “Why?”

It’s customary to quote Donald Knuth at this point, but instead I’ll quote my twitter buddy Ted Hart to illustrate a point:

I’m just going to say it.I like for loops in #Rstats,...

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We are pleased to announce that Revolution R Enterprise Release 6.2 is available to new subscribers today. This new software release from Revolution Analytics includes a number of key new features: Support for open source R 2.15.3, the latest stable release of R. Since Release 2.14.2, the R Project has added 89 new features, 11 performance enhancements and 139...

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Identifying project stakeholders and their requirements is a very important factor in the success of any project. Existing techniques tend to be very ad-hoc. In her PhD thesis Soo Ling Lim came up with a very interesting solution using social network analysis and what is more made her raw data available for download I have

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A new Armadillo release 3.810.0 by Conrad appeared yesterday, and was wrapped up in a new release 0.3.810.0 of RcppArmadillo. Upstream changes bring FFT support as well as more Sparse matrix constructors, and we have an improvement to the sample() fu...

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Aannounced: the 177 mentoring organizations accepted for 2013′s Google Summer of Code program. We’re proud that Bioconductor is one the organizations chosen. Google Summer of Code is a global program that offers students stipends (USD$5000) to write code for open source projects. We’ve proposed three ideas. Students may also propose their own ideas. Project 1: ExperimentHub AnnotationHub and its supporting packages are primed to support such a project. AnnotationHub provides infrastructure...

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Spotting international conflict is very easy with the GDELT data set, combined with ggplot and R. The simple gif above shows snapshots of Russian/Soviet activity from January 1980 and January 2000. I think it also illustrates how Russia nowadays looks more to the east and the South than during the Cold War. The trend, though...

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More exciting news about MCMSki IV! First thing first, the 16 contributed sessions are now all-set, having gotten the stamp of approval from the scientific committee! Thanks to everyone who submitted a session proposal. (There were so many proposals that we alas had to reject some, as well as every single talk proposal… Sorry people:

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Last years UseR 2012 conference in Nashville had an interesting discussion session titled “What other languages should R users know about?“. General consensus was that multilingualism is inevitable in modern computing, and panel members presented various languages that complement R in different ways. Some of the usual suspects included SQL, python, and of course C++, ...

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I love networks! Nothing is better for visualizing complex multivariate relationships be it social, virtual or biological. I recently gave a hands-on network building tutorial using R and Cytoscape to build large biological networks. In these networks Nodes represent metabolites and edges can be many things, but I specifically focused on biochemical relationships and chemical

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