The most recent edition of the Revolution Newsletter is out. The news section is below, and you can read the full July edition (with highlights from this blog and community events) online. You can subscribe to the Revolution Newsletter to get it monthly via email. Quick Start Program for Hadoop: Revolution Analytics makes it easy for data analysts and...
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Learning R has really made me appreciate SAS
For the past 18 months, it seems like all I’ve heard about in the digital marketing industry is “big data”, and with that, mentions of using Hadoop and R to solve these sorts of problems. Why are these tools the … Continue reading →
Learning R has really made me appreciate SAS is an article from randyzwitch.com,...
Faster R in Hadoop: rmr 1.3 now available
The RHadoop project continues the Big Data integration of R and Hadoop, with a new update to its rmr package. Version 1.3 of rmr improves the performance of map-reduce jobs for Hadoop written in R. New features include: An optional vectorized API for efficient R programming when dealing with small records. Fast C implementations for serialization and deserialization from...
Community Detection in Networks with R
I mainly post this visualization because I think it’s pretty. It reminds a little of the work by the famous Dutch painter Mondrian. The complete matrix can be found here. The plot is a heatmap of an adjacency matrix generated by a weighted dir...
In case you missed it: June 2012 Roundup
In case you missed them, here are some articles from June of particular interest to R users. The FDA goes on the record that it's OK to use R for drug trials. A review of talks at the useR! 2012 conference. Using the negative binomial distribution to convert monthly fecundity into the chances of having a baby in a...
Orbitz and the Macs: Signals, not segmentation
By now you've probably heard about the fact that Orbitz users accessing the site via Macs are seeing more expensive hotel options when they search. But it seems worth clearing up a couple of fallacies. First, it's not as if the same hotel room is being offered at a higher prices to Mac users. (So no, using Windows to...
useR 2012: main conference braindump
I knew R was versatile, but DANG, people do a lot with it: > > … I don’t think anyone actually believes that R is designed to make *everyone* happy. For me, R does about 99% of the things I … Continue reading →
UseR 2012 highlights
The eighth annual R user conference, UseR! 2012, has come and gone — and what an event it was! I've been to five useR! conferences so far, and each one improves upon the last. This year's conference at Vanderbilt was the best so far: an outstanding location (my first visit to Nashville, a great city), excellent facilities (the lecture...
CIO.com: R is a Big Data open-source technology to watch
CIO.com recently published its list of 9 open-source technologies to watch. Hadoop is first on the list, and second up is the R Project: R is an open source programming language and software environment designed for statistical computing and visualization. R was designed by Ross Ihaka and Robert Gentleman at the University of Auckland, New Zealand beginning in 1993...
Revolution Newsletter: June 2012
The most recent edition of the Revolution Newsletter is out. The news section is below, and you can read the full June edition (with highlights from this blog and community events) online. You can subscribe to the Revolution Newsletter to get it monthly via email. Revolution R Enterprise 6 Now Available! The latest release of Revolution R Enterprise brings...
Zero Inflated Models and Generalized Linear Mixed Models with R.
Zuur, Saveliev, Ieno (2012).
